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Diskeeper 2007 Install, configure and forget it's there. It'll even defrag on the fly in real time without any performance degradation.

I meant the RTM version.

I plan on upgrading my home server to 2008 as soon as it's available on MSDN. I'll upgrade at work as soon as it's authorized for us (which may be a while, current estimates on Vista changed from Fall '07 to Q1 '09...).

Users have access to edit their own registry settings. All user customizations (changing the theme, desktop wallpaper, etc, etc) are stored in HKCU. My suggestion, and people have seen me do this before...use KiXtart. It was originally designed to be a logon script processor and has a TON of registry features. http://www.kixtart.org/ Here's an example line that would change the desktop wallpaper: $X = WriteValue("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop","Wallpaper","<new wallpapper bitmap>",REG_SZ) Look simple enough?

This is part of spec'ing a server. When you're buying a server you should buy it with enough power to run all of the processes that need to run, plus all of the management tasks as well...and of course add some power for future growth. Too much power is never a bad thing, but not enough is...

I don't think there's a way to use the MMC, but as far as I know you can still use the net user and net localgroup commands.

so I've been asking around and doing more research, and I'm wondering... will an extra 120mm fan really cool it off more? I plan to run 3-4 hdds so I don't need the hdd space, just the cooling. Maximum PC had their "Target your Hotspots" segment, and they stated that they where surpized that... and I quote, "we were actually surprised to find that running the second 8cm fan up front didn't have an impact on the case's ambient temperature." The case they where using was the Zalman Fatal1ty FC-ZE1 so it isn't may case, and it is an 80mm not a 120, but... would it really change temps? My temps are good right now, but when I get my new rig I assume my vid card (either the 8800 series, or the ATI HD2900XT card) will run really hot so I am wanting to keep them cool. Processor won't be an issue as I'll use my Thermaltake Big Typhoon 120mm as it works in an LGA 775 and I plan to get a Dual core anyways... So what do you think? Will an extra 120mm fan or a 250mm side fan really cool things down at all? or cool them down enough to make it worth my money? Well, the idea behind the iCage cooling is to cool the drives. Keeping the drives cool will not only remove a hot spot in the case, but it'll help the drives last longer. If you're planning on running four drives I'd run them in two iCages...top and bottom spots in each iCage. I'm getting ready to swap out my six Seagate 7200.8 250GB PATA drives for four Seagate 7200.10 400GB SATA 3Gb drives. Yeah, I lose 50GB total space (in RAID5), but the drive speeds will be faster (not just from moving to SATA, but the newer controller has more optimizations as well). Anyway, my point was that I'm going to run the four drives in the configuration I suggested. The other upshot is that it'll open up the middle drive slot in each iCage so that more air gets into the system itself.

Windows Server 2003 R2 has the File Server Resource Management utility that can be setup for a number of these tasks...including sending reports as to who owns what directories/files, duplicate file reports, etc, etc.

When you re-imaged the machine did you use the same computer name? And if so, did you reset the computer account in the domain before rejoining?

That's my thought as well. You may have hibernation disabled, but that doesn't do anything for the Stand By setting. Other than that it could be in the BIOS. Those settings are generally disabled by default, but that's also worth checking into.

Intel CPUs from the P4 up use what's called a "quad pumped" bus. This basically means that 4 times as much data is processed per CPU cycle then on older CPUs. 200MHz actual x 4 = 800MHz effective Your problem could be any number of things. If you have other systems with parts that will work on that motherboard you can start there (i.e. if the CPU from the other stable system will work, try that...same with the RAM, etc). At first I wanted to say that it sounds like the cache in the CPU was going bad. This can happen if it runs too hot for too long. But after you mentioned swapping the DIMMs around and getting varying results, it could be the memory controller in the north bridge (which would mean a motherboard replacement).

If I correctly understand what you're asking, your best bet is to get a utility such as Search and Replace. I can do it with KiXtart (which means it can probably be done in VBS as well, I just don't code VBS)...but Search and Replace will do exactly what you want (again, assuming I correctly understand your question).

yeah the 120mm fans in front are cheaper also, it just seems that air directly on the computer parts would work really well. Thanks for the link, as I've never heard of SilentPCReview, it looks like it could help... Are the price drops going to be large ones? I have that case with two of the cages (six hard drives in RAID5). They're designed to not only cool the case, but to cool your drives. Some hard drives can run rather warm, which just adds additional heat in the case (obviously). The cages help reduce that by keeping the drives ice cool. The only thing I don't like about the cages is that you can only put three drives in each cage. Supermicro has some setups that allow four or five drives in the same amount of space. The system I have all of those drives in is my Active Directory domain controller, DHCP server, AD DNS, WINS, file server, etc, etc, etc. Right now it has eight hard drives in it (two in the upper bay, six in two iCages). Not that I move it that often, but when I do it's cumbersome because of the size and weight!

I suspect it was a firmware (NVIDIA BIOS) issue between the older and newer cards. The new card has a newer NVIDIA BIOS than your older card. It was probably arguing with the older card in the primary slot. When you switched the new card to the primary slot it became the "master" (so to speak) so the newer NVIDIA BIOS took over.

The 8800GTS also has three times the stream processors so it needs the additional memory bandwidth. The way they've optimized their memory crossbar technology over the years, 128-bit memory interface is fine for the 32 stream processors the 8600GT has. Would 256-bit help? I'm sure it would, but probably not as much as you might think.

I've been using 3ware's controllers for a few years now. They're feature rich, easy to setup, fast and reliable. They're a little pricier, but WELL worth the additional cost. I don't know what your budget for the card is so I'll just paste a link to all of the PCI-X 3ware controllers on NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....&name=PCI-X The Dell Precision 650 I'm typing this on now has the 9550SX-4LP in it with four Seagate 7200.10 400GB drives attached to it.

MSOCache wasn't implemented until Office 2003.

That's not possible. You will not find a dual socket motherboard for Core 2 Duo (or Quad) CPUs. Intel hasn't supported multi-CPU/socket setups for their desktop CPUs since the introduction of the first P4's. You have to move up to Xeon's for dual socket support.

Boot from your XP CD into the Recovery Console. Run a CHKDSK on your drive.

Some motherboards won't boot if it doesn't get the correct signals from attached devices -- i.e. a single drive is attached and set to slave but the motherboard expects it to be master.

I've never seen a BIOS upgrade increase the amount of supported RAM. The amount of support RAM is usually a chipset limitation (hardware) and not a BIOS (software) limitation.

This is an equivalent replacement: http://www.power-on.com/atx12v250bt.html I just googled for "HP a510n power supply". You'll come up with a couple of hits that way. Here's another one: http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/300-watt-p...-atx-300-gu.php

Before replacing it you need to find out is if it's a custom pin-out. I'm not sure about HP's but I know that Dell uses a custom pin layout. The connector is a standard ATX type power connector, but the pins aren't standard so you have to purchase from Dell (or find one that's compatible). I recently had the same issue on an older P4 based HP Compaq I was working on for a friend. I found a compatible PSU online, ordered it, slapped it in and it worked without issue. See if you can find the model number on the machine. If it's not on the front it should be on the back somewhere. Having the serial number may also help.

Since you want to use the same RAM the closest motherboard replacement that I would recommend is the Asus NCCH-DL. The problem will be finding it for sale anywhere.

Short answer: No, this can't be done. Long answer: The password policy is a machine policy, not a user policy. Since the user accounts are domain accounts, and therefore stored in Active Directory (i.e. each domain controller), the domain controllers have that policy applied to them. You can only have one password policy for the domain. And if I'm not mistaken, that policy is generally set in the Default Domain Policy.