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This is what the User State Migration Tool was designed to do.

What I'd like to know is why you paid THAT much for a Datacenter license just to run it as a desktop OS? I'm also sure it has some specific code in it for doing the duties it's designed for. As a matter of fact, some features that are included with the Standard and Enterprise editions are either partially included or aren't included at all in Datacenter. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsse...es/compare.mspx

its entirely possible, but the only game i really ever play is Alice, so its not like i can go through a big list and compare. Alice is based on the Q3 engine but I'm not sure if it includes the same strafing "bug". Try enabling vsync to see if it gets rid of the tearing. Yes. DX10 isn't a requirement for Aero.

That model appears to be specific to Australia...and their site doesn't have a single driver for it. But...as IcemanND said you need to make sure you have the chipset drivers installed. The SoundMAX audio device integrates with part of the southbridge so if you don't have the chipset drivers installed you'll never get the sound card to work.

I agree...the XFX 7900GS XXX would be a much better choice for the money IMO. Sure, it doesn't run DX10 but none of the current DX10 capable cards run DX10 games particularly well right now anyway. The double lifetime* warranty also helps. *As long as you register it on XFX's site the warranty will transfer if you sell/give away the card.

Gah...I forgot about the Ultra133 line.

Thinking about it...you're right. NVIDIA has it in their southbridge controllers. Highpoint has it on their controllers*. And a few other addin card makers had it. Even 3ware added support to their PATA RAID controllers. Intel and Promise never added support to any of their products mainly because Maxtor was the only drive maker** who was supporting it in their drives...plus we all know how Intel is about supporting non-official "standards". * If I'm not mistaken, it was Highpoint controllers that Maxtor was including with their drives when they were trying to push the standard. ** I don't recall Hitachi ever having UDMA6 support, but I may be wrong on that as well.

Well, since you're looking to purchase right now and are on somewhat of a budget my recommendation would be for an Asus P5B-E Plus paired with a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Ideally you'd want to find a P5B Deluxe, but there's more of a price premium for that board. Unfortunately, you're going to need new RAM as well since your current board is DDR and almost any new motherboard you get is going to want DDR2. You are correct that there's a huge price difference between the Q6600 and Q6700.

Unfortunately, that hotfix isn't readily available from Microsoft. If it doesn't come with the SoundMAX drivers (Realtek includes it with their drivers), you can use the following information to get the hotfix. If you aren't creating an Unattended XP install just ignore the information about integrating it...

If the partition is going to be > 8GB that's a bad, bad, bad, bad choice. Hell, even if it's < 8GB that's a bad choice. Stick with NTFS.I don't know why people think FAT32 is so good. You'll end up with a TON of wasted space on a FAT32 partition simply because of the cluster size. OS X cannot write to NTFS and the Fuse drivers i've tried don't work for me. not much of a choice there. having a 63gb library of music is tough to have between 3 OSes. Don't you have multiple computers? Put the music on a network share. From a network share it doesn't matter what the hosting machine's drives are formatted as because the host OS serves up the files. It'll also allow you to access your music from any of the other machines.Trust me, you'll lose space, performance, recoverability, security and reliability by going with FAT32 over NTFS. Yep...

What's the full model number of that Panasonic Toughbook? I can tell you this much...it's a SoundMAX sound device. I was able to find that out by searching Google for VEN_8086&DEV_24C5.

UDMA5 was the highest official PATA speed anyway. UDMA6 is 133MB/s and was something that Maxtor did on their own. Few controllers (and drives for that matter) ever added support for it.

Any card can do this especially in lower requirement games. The frame tearing happens because the video card is pushing frames to the monitor faster than the monitor can display them. Enable vsync and the tearing will probably disappear. Quake III (Q3) is really the only game where pushing the frame rates as fast as possible is desirable. The reason for this is that Q3 has a "bug" (put in on purpose) that allows you to move faster with a faster frame rate (a constant 125 FPS is the sweet spot). For any other game there's no reason to play with frames higher than your refresh rate. id Software (developer of Q3) has even limited every game they've made since DOOM 3 to 60 FPS no matter how fast your system can push the game.

What I think is that anything used by multiple users should be kept on a file server for access by everyone. That way you don't have to move data around at all. I have file shares setup by section. My users are instructed to put their important and shared data on their respective shares. Then all you do is add new user(s) to the group(s) that have access to the share.

This really should be it's own thread. The other guy that asked the question lumped it in with upgrade questions as well...which is why it wasn't answered. Simply: A Core 2 Duo CPU is a Dual Core processor. It is one physical CPU package, but behaves as if it were a dual CPU package system. The processor is built to process two threads at the same time, in the same way that Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) works. A Core 2 Quad CPU is a Quade Core processor, meaning it can process four threads at the same time. The original Pentium 4's were not dual core. They had a feature called Hyper-threading that enabled Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). This was supposed to give performance equivalent to SMP, but in most cases it didn't. The only place it really worked was if the application was specifically coded to take advantage of both SMP and Hyperthreading at the same time. Most developers didn't even bother... You can get some more (mostly accurate) information at the following links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_(computing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading

I do... Looks like AutoPatcher has been given a Cease & Desist. Hopefully WUD won't since it actually downloads the updates from Microsoft's site.

Well, for your basic 2 PC KVM I've always had pretty good luck with IOGear products.

One would hope that an OS upgrade would be in order with the hardware upgrade. Windows 2000 doesn't even properly support Hyperthreaded P4's, much less multi-core CPU's. Also, having more than 2 CPUs (or cores in the case of Windows 2000) doesn't violate the EULA. Windows 2000 Professional just won't use more than 2 CPUs (cores). The other two will just be unused all the time. Windows XP Professional will use as many cores as the system has...as long as they aren't on more than 2 physical CPUs.

Using a generic user name for regular users is a bad idea in general. Nothing in Windows is logged using the display name. Everything uses the actual user logon name. With a generic user logon name you've created more work for yourself. Just check any Event Viewer data on any of our servers and you'll see what I mean. Pretty much the only time you see the Display Name is at the top of the Start Menu (unless that's turned off) and at the Locked Workstation screen.

Do you have a gpresult.txt file in the root of your C: drive now? Edit: You did that from the Run prompt...that doesn't work. You have to run that from a Command Prompt.

Someone didn't by chance change the LM Level of the domain did they? If the domain is set to 'Send NTLMv2 response only\refuse LM & NTLM' then you can have these types of problems. Run the Resultant Set of Policies MMC (Start > Run > rsop.msc) on the domain controller and navigate to the following location: Console Root>username on computername>Computer Configuration>Windows Settings>Security Settings>Local Polices>Security Options One you get there look for the 'Network security: LAN Manager authentication level' policy and see what the effective setting is.

Two cheaper drives in RAID0 will give you much better performance. The Raptors haven't really been updated in a while other than to come out with the new 150GB capacity...but that's about the only change to them. Where the Raptors really shine is when you have them configured in a file server on a really good RAID controller, and with multiple users accessing them at the same time. For a single user setup (a desktop) there's not that much of a performance improvement to justify the cost.A pair of (much) cheaper current technology drives configured in RAID0 will give you much better performance on a single user setup. Sure, if one drive fails you lose everything...but what makes it so different from running a single drive? With a single drive, if that drive fails you lose everything anyway...so take the chance and increase your performance with RAID0. You need to research this. First, if you plan on going greater than 1TB for a single volume, you will be setting up RAID. There's no way around it because there is no single drive that's larger than 1TB right now. Second, there are issues that need to be dealt with when going above 2TB. Most RAID controllers won't allow you to configure an array larger than 2TB anyway. You can find plenty of information on Google by searching for the term 'RAID'. Some of the information is good, some of it is bad, and some of it is downright wrong. To put it plainly, the most commonly used RAID levels are 0 (striping), 1 (mirroring), and 5 (striping with parity). RAID10 (striping with mirroring) is starting to become more of a player now as well since drive sizes have gotten larger and prices have gone down.One word of warning: You do not want to run RAID5 on an integrated or low-end RAID controller. It'll use the CPU to calculate the parity information and hurt performance of the system in every way imagineable. See above. Two (good) drives in RAID0 will blow a single Raptor out of the water.

Yeah...you can test 'em. Put a copy of KIX32.EXE and WKIX32.EXE in your %SystemRoot% (normally C:\WINDOWS\). Now you can run scripts from the command line: KIX32.EXE scriptname.kix Or if you're not in the script directory: KIX32.EXE C:\full\path\to\scriptname.kix Additionally...for the sake of sanity when you're testing make the very first line of your script Break On. Without that setting KiX will automatically log you out if the KIX32.EXE (or WKIX32.EXE) process is terminated before the script ends. It's handy when you have a script that hangs or loops due to a syntax error. For logon scripts you can add this to the beginning instead of just adding Break On. This way you can test it without worrying about being logged out if the script hangs. If @LOGONMODE = 1 Break Off Else Break On EndIf

Do you need PS/2, USB or both? Also, do you need DVI or regular VGA?

When they say "Dual Core" they're either talking about the Pentium D (P4 based) or Pentium E series (Conroe/Core based) CPUs. I'm not sure why your friend would tell you that a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo is better than a 3GHz Core 2 Duo. The Core 2 Quad is a different matter though. Before you go buying CPUs, what motherboard do you currently have?