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I personally use Avast antivirus with Windows Defender, and they keep me going just fine.

Actually, I do see some interesting not founds, all regarding SAM locations. Again, not sure it's the issue, but I'm not sure it isn't. Check lines 16594 - 16599 and 16608-16613 to see what I mean. What happens if you run this command as the system account?

Looks like a STOP 0x50 bugcheck: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Correct - hopefully we can get a good archive.

Have you run process monitor (sysinternals) while running the script to see if you can determine why it's failing?

Got yourself a trojan virus: http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pe...px?id=453107048 Any decent, up-to-date antivirus package should be able to clean this off, but you may have to do so in safe mode if possible. It spreads via removable drives and cameras, so beware.

Huh? What is inconsistent? I'm not arguing, but I don't remember ever hearing that...

Every time I click the link, it opens in a new browser window with gibberish. If I choose "save as", I get "memory.htm" and it's not a valid archive, no matter what I rename it to (.7z or otherwise). Can you perhaps make it a .zip or a .rar?

Download autoruns from Sysinternals and disable all non-Microsoft items. Then, download ShellExView from nirsoft.net and disable all non-Microsoft shell handlers, and reboot. If you do that, does the problem happen after the reboot?

It's also documented even better here in the forums.

What's the actual error?

The only other surefire way is to dump the box, and run a !vm against the .dmp file in a debugger.

Unlike most upgrades, you'll be ripping out the 9x kernel and replacing it with an NT-based kernel. The registry will somewhat migrate over, but there are differences - this can break applications, so backing up your data and installing clean will probably result in the lowest amount of downtime. If any app breaks, or you need to troubleshoot some random upgrade-related problem, the upgrade will cost you more downtime and be more problematic than a clean install of XP and your apps, and migration of data back.

Not at this time - are you trying to run the actual app in XP, or just monitor XP remotely?

Moving to more appropriate forum.

Windows side-by-side assemblies (WinSxS) are provided to alleviate dll-hell, and are basically collections of dlls, COM server components, and classes that are presented together to applications requiring one (or more) of these components as a specific version - take a look here for a little more info. Long story short, you can remove these (with some guidance) from a WinPE disc, but doing so from an actual Windows installation can be dangerous.

Almost all group policy settings are just registry settings. Defining a group policy option sets a registry setting on a client - undefining that policy at a later time does NOT remove that registry modification, it simply sets it to not defined by group policy (i.e., don't modify the client). You have to define the same settings that you previously enabled, to DISABLED, to do what you're expecting.

Just to finalize the thread - this has been discussed before, so check those threads out as well. They'll give you some good info.

Well, not sure about IE7 or WMP, but since there have been no security updates released for x64 since SP2 was released, this at least (again, minus IE7 and WMP) seems like expected behavior.

I don't know of any software that does this - you could definitely get a network location to show as local on the client (subst command), but nothing I know of to allow the client to modify data on said drive without actually modifying the server share.

At this point, you'll have to do a repair installation.

So, you're looking to emulate a SAN environment?

Disabled, or uninstalled? They're all kernel-mode drivers, so having the user-mode portion disabled does nothing to disable the kernel drivers. Those load with the kernel, and as such are always enabled (even if unused by their application) unless uninstalled. If you do this from the command line in a command prompt (dir /a or something on said folder), do you experience any delays, or does the list scroll by very fast?

Enables Windows update to finish up the post-reboot tasks - you need this if you use Windows Update or install updates that require a reboot.

If you don't have Update Rollup 1 installed, see if the hotfix mentioned here helps: 831895: The Shutdown.exe utility does not shut down or restart your Windows 2000-based computer http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;831895