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I'm a fan of the Pioneer drives as well. Their CD burning speeds are usually a little slower than other manufacturers...but 40X is still plenty fast enough. Their drives are super reliable too.

The easiest way to do it is to use a VM (Virtual Machine). Just download Virtual PC 2007 or VMWare then do a test install of WinXP. Don't configure them to run fullscreen. When you do that you'll take a screenshot of the VM window itself with XP running within the VM at the screens you want...then just edit the screenshot to remove the VPC/VMWare parts.

All you need is the router (possibly a wireless router if you want that for your laptop). All you do is go from the ethernet port on the modem to the WAN port on the router. Then attach the desktop to one of the other ports. If the laptop isn't going to be wireless you would attach it to one of the other ports. If the laptop is going to be wireless you would configure wireless as appropriate. Most of the good routers (i.e. Linksys WRT54G...that's wireless model) come with some pretty straight forward documentation for setting them up. It'll work right out of the box with minimum configuration. Since you're on DSL it may take a little more configuration to get the modem working, but even that is fairly easy.

You won't find any information like that on this site. I smell a ban coming...

Actually they do use Windows for their servers. This came up a while back and it turns out the a 3rd party company (Akamai Technologies) is using Linux for some stuff that's been outsourced to them by Microsoft.

You're right...it does only allow up to a minimum of 14 characters. That's just the minimum though...the actual password can be longer. Honestly though, if the only reason you're wanting to go to 15 instead of 14 is because of the way NTLM password hashes are stored (all caps, breaks at every seven characters) then just disable caching the NTLM hash. GPEDIT.MSC > Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > Network security: Do not store LAN Manager hash value on next password change There are several others in the same location that you should set to Enabled or Disabled as appropriate: Network access: Allow anonymous SID/Name translation Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares Network access: Do not allow storage of credentials or .NET Passports for network authentication Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users That's just a few...there are others I would set as well.

Subdirectories and files have the 'inherit' flag set by default so all you should have to do is set the parent directory permissions. Also, if the subdirectories/files are made after you set the permissions then they should inherit permissions correctly. Here's an edited copy of a KiX script I used for something we were going to do a while back. It makes use of showmbrs.exe (to get the user names from a specific group), xcacls.exe (to set the permissions...note that I'm not use the VBS version) and subinacl.exe (to set the directory/file owner). We were originally going to do folder redirection for our users but then some other things that came up forced us to back off on that idea. Anyway...maybe it'll give you some ideas. Break On $U = "F:\Users" Shell '%COMSPEC% /C showmbrs.exe "<domain>\<user_group>" > @SCRIPTDIR\<filename>.txt' If Open(1,"@SCRIPTDIR\<filename>.txt",2) = 0 $LINE = ReadLine(1) While @ERROR = 0 If InStr($LINE," ") And Not InStr($LINE,"<part_of_group_name>") $USR = Trim($LINE) ? "$USR" If Exist("$U\$USR\") = 0 MD "$U\$USR" Shell '%COMSPEC% /C XCACLS.EXE "$U\$USR" /G Administrators:F /Y' Shell '%COMSPEC% /C XCACLS.EXE "$U\$USR" /E /G SYSTEM:F' Shell '%COMSPEC% /C XCACLS.EXE "$U\$USR" /E /G "<domain>\$USR":C' MD "$U\$USR\My Documents" MD "$U\$USR\Outlook" MD "$U\$USR\Favorites" MD "$U\$USR\Desktop" Shell '%COMSPEC% /C SUBINACL.EXE /noverbose /nostatistic /subdirectories $U\$USR /setowner=RANDOLPH\$USR' Shell '%COMSPEC% /C SUBINACL.EXE /noverbose /nostatistic /subdirectories $U\$USR\* /setowner=RANDOLPH\$USR' EndIf EndIf $LINE = ReadLine(1) Loop $X = Close(1) EndIf

Windows XP can have up to a 255 character password! All you have to do is configure the appropriate option via GPO (or gpedit.msc if this is a stand-alone/non-domain PC). Is the workstation stand-alone or a member of a domain?

Try SubInACL. subinacl /noverbose /nostatistic /subdirectories <path> /setowner=<domain>\<user> I know that doesn't answer why icacls isn't working but at least you can see if SubInACL will at least let you complete your project and then troubleshoot icacle. EDIT: Weird...I got the same "No mapping between account names and security IDs was done" error when using a group name. When I used a user name I got the "Access denied" error...and I'm logged in as the (renamed) domain admin account. D:\>icacls D:\wibble.txt /setowner #########\Administrators No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 0 files

You'll have better performance if you install them in matching pairs because that will enable dual channel mode. But, as nitroshift said, it should work, just with reduced performance.

Yes, it is. I've never done it, but supposedly you can use Firewire to connect two or more computers in a 400Mbit/s network (or 800Mbit/s if you have 1394b). There is no such thing as a Firewire hub so if you had more than two computers then they would each need more than one Firewire port. You'd go from computer A to B then computer B to C, so on and so forth. By the time you pay for a bunch of long Firewire cables you could've just purchased a small switch and CAT5 (or even CAT6) cables though. You'll probably get better performance with doing it that way as well.

Well setting a GPO to "Not Defined" for the standard ones is supposed to undo whatever was done. You can just reverse the policy setting to undo it (the setting will still be forced by GPO but at least it'll be undone on the workstation). After sufficient time (i.e. all clients have refreshed their policies) you can then change the policy to "Not Defined". There is a company, that was recently purchased by Microsoft) that makes products designed to help prevent tattooing. This product is PolicyMaker from DesktopStandard (again, now owned by Microsoft). http://www.desktopstandard.com/

Not necessarily. I've seen people mention this hack in reference to just general usage though. It gets me every time...

Actually most widescreen LCD monitors are 16:10. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...o_Standards.png I have two 24" widescreen monitors on my desk at work. The extra screen real estate is awesome when viewing/working on scripts, graphics, web pages, multiple RDP sessions, etc, etc. 1920x1200 * 2 = Good Thing Most all the widescreens below 24" have a 1680x1050 native resolution.

Double post... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=95312 I figured that's what it was. If you read his other post he says he didn't reinstall Windows.

Gaaaahh...looks like some motherboard manufacturers are using F8 for the boot device selection menu. Wait until your system has passed the BIOS before starting to press F8. The timing will be tricky but you should be able to catch it between BIOS load and Windows boot.

Yes, it will still be fine. To be honest, I'm not even sure if Server 2003 has this limit imposed (although I would think it would). The network performance drop that you noticed was probably because XP SP2 turned the firewall on.

It's probably trying to tell you that it can't find a boot drive. When it starts to boot press F8 so that you get the options (Safe Mode, VGA, etc). Choose the "Disable restart on error" option. It should now show you a BSOD instead of just rebooting. See what the BSOD says. But yes, when doing a motherboard replacement it's generally recommended to reinstall.

The limit is NOT for 10 simultaneous connections. The limit is for 10 simultaneous half open connections. You want to limit those because it can be a DoS vector...

Wrong. The computer sharing the connection also serves as a DHCP server for all the computers connecting thru it. I stand corrected...the last time I used ICS was on Win98 SE. I did some quick reading and it's a very basic DHCP server (not much else required other than an IP, submask and the gateway anyway, though). Although I still tend to think that in that situation it's still better to use static IPs. Mainly in such a case that if your ICS machine just happens to be off and you fire up another machine that happens to take the .1 address. ICS will work in a pinch...no doubt there. But given the option I'd much rather use a cable/DSL router. Just my 2 cents...

The "not undoing" is commonly referred to as "tatooing" the workstation. It'll happen even worse if you use custom ADM templates. This is why you should be sure before forcing a setting through GPO.

That's because there is no DHCP server with ICS. The 169.254.x.x series of IPs is what XP uses when it's set to DHCP but no DHCP server is available on the network. With ICS you have to use static IPs on all of your machines (with the .1 address on the ICS host/gateway). That'll reduce A LOT of the wait time.

Have you tried using it to share access with other computers though? I used ICS a loooooong time ago (as well as RRAS in 2000) and I can tell you that opening ports and getting them to work properly is a PITA.

They may not support that you use it but I don't see how they can keep you from using it.

The question was "will it be", not "is it". Yes, when it's released you'll be able to slipstream SP3 over SP2. You'll have to remove everything in the i386\svcpack\ directory and remove the i386\svcpack.inf file, but that should be the only thing you have to do.