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An RDP session locks the console because XP only supports one active login at a time. You can either use the console or you can connect through RDP, but not both at the same time. I suspect there may be some weird RDP policies set. Check all of the "Terminal Server" items in GPEDIT.MSC. Better yet, since GPEDIT.MSC doesn't show domain settings, run RSOP.MSC and see if there are any "Terminal Server" items set. The settings are located under both Computer and User configurations uder Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services. If there are settings and the GPO Name is anything other than "Local Group Policy" then it's a domain policy. I haven't ever known any policies to cause this sort of problem, but it's worth checking out. Also, what's the version of your RDP client?

The Intel ICH6/7/8 controllers also require the drivers if you put them in AHCI mode, which is recommended since that's how you get the controller in native SATA mode. I integrate the drivers for all of my personal systems manually...but I keep a USB floppy drive around in case I'm working on someone else's computer.

I've been ordering the 7200.10's exclusively at work and home for a while now. Haven't had any problems with any of them yet. /me knocks on wood

There is a performance gain and the price premium isn't that much. For example at Seagate 7200.10 250GB drive with 8MB cache is $70 from NewEgg. The same drive with 16MB cache is $75.

Looks like they can. Look at the DFS Namespaces Requirements table about 1/3 of the way down on this page. There's a bunch of information here as well.

The only suggestion I have is to look at the Seagate 7200.10 250GB drive instead of the 7200.9. It has the new perpendicular recording technology. They're quite fast as well. I have two 250GB models and two 400GB models in my machine...couldn't be happier with the purchase. You can get the 7200.10 with 8MB cache for the same price that you have listed, or for ~$5 more you can double the cache to 16MB (recommended).

Are you behind a proxy server or possibly a firewall blocking access to the Windows Update site?

Well I would investigate why it happened.

DFS is different in R2. It's more efficient in the way it works. You should update the current server to R2 before implementing DFS.

Same here...no plans to uninstall IE7.

Another reason to use Citrix is for encrypting the connection. We have an older 16-bit application (yet another use for Citrix) that processes personal data. The application doesn't natively have encryption so we stuck it on a Citrix server that requires a 128-bit RC5 connection with SSL/TLS on top of that. The other cool thing about it is that you can run the application in what they call a "seamless mode". Other than the connection splash screens it looks like the application is actually running on the workstation instead of a Citrix server.

Your whole Computer Management MMC snapin is missing a lot of stuff. You should have sub-items under every one of those options. It should look like: -System Tools --Event Viewer --Shared Folders --Local Users and Computers --Performance Logs and Alerts --Device Manager -Storage --Removable Storage --Diskeeper --Disk Management <---what you're looking for -Services and Applications --Services --WMI Control --Indexing Service Try running diskmgmt.msc to see what you get. That's the Disk Management snapin by itself.

I would hope the update routine would be smart enough to not replace newer DLLs. But to answer your question...nope, no /X extract here. I just went for it blindly.

No idea...it installed just fine on my DC/file server at home without uninstalling IE7. At least everything is working fine so far.

If all your PCs have the exact same hardware, then I don't believe it will be a problem. As far as I know, even SysPrep can't bend that rule. The problem is the machine SID. If you clone a bunch of machines and don't run SysPrep then they all have the same SID...this is a Bad Thing in a Domain/AD environment. I know you don't want any 3rd party apps...but again, I strongly recommend taking a look at SiteKiosk. Grab the trial version and check it out.

Have you tried MBSA 2.01? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en MBSA 2.1 is in beta (adds support of Vista).

The problem is in the way the End User License Agreement is written. OEM licenses cannot be transferred from one PC to another. In their verbage, they consider a motherboard upgrade (not replacement due to failure) a "new PC" even if everything else is still the same. I don't like it either...but legally you aren't supposed to do what you're talking about. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's not "supposed" to. This is why it's generally recommended to purchase a Retail license if you're building your own computer. Most people opt for the OEM license because it's cheaper...but then you're locked into the PC you install it on the first time. In other words, it "should" become more expensive in the long run because you would technically/legally be required to purchase a new OEM license if you upgrade your motherboard/PC.

Are you running Active Directory? If so then you're running DNS services. You can create custom DNS domains within the AD integrated DNS and then point them to the necessary IP addresses.

If they're seperate programs containing seperate data it's generally recommended to have them in seperate databases. What if you wanted to move the database for one application to another server, but not move the database for the other application? If you put them in the same database then you'd be stuck pulling the tables apart for a situtation like that.

The products are made by Symantec. "Norton" is just one of their line of products. The newer versions of Ghost work just fine.

Personally...I've found that the safest way is to use Ghost. You'll need a second hard drive (external USB or even a network share will work using BartPE). Create a Ghost image of the drive then restore it. During the restore process Ghost will allow you to change the partition size. I'm sure other people have other methods, Ghost is just my personal preference.

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You can't really count the "holes" because of the way the connector is. It's more of the old AT style power connector than it is a pinned connector. I had a dual Socket 370 SuperMicro board (with a pair of PIII-S 1.4's) that required that power connector as well. I believe the power supply I had in that box was a 580W Enermax.

There's a button for it on the toolbar. Look for a button that has the paragraph marker. You have both of your toolbars on one line so it's probably hidden right now.

That's just a paragraph marker...it's nothing to worry about. Somewhere along the line you told Word to show you all of the formatting characters (i.e. you'll see a dot between words indicating a space character, or an arror indicating a tab character, etc, etc). Personally, I prefer to work on documents that way...particularly when I want to see if someone has tried to line things up with a bunch of spaces instead of using tabs. I don't know why people can't figure out that you aren't going to line things up with spaces using proportional width fonts...