nmX.Memnoch

The problem is with his internal network. Since the Active Directory domain name is mycompany.com, mycompany.com resolves to the domain controller(s). Internal users are being redirected to the domain controller(s) when attempting to visit http://mycompany.com/ instead of the actual website.

Read the bold. The optimal solution is two page files on seperate physical disks...not moving the page file.My replies were in response to moving the page file. However...if you read the rest of that paragraph my comments regarding disk intensive tasks still applies. If you have a pagefile on your secondary drive and do your disk intensive tasks on that drive as well...Windows will still be using the pagefile on the secondary drive for things that were already in that pagefile before the task was started.

I know this works on 2000 Server and Server 2003...it may also work on XP. Instead of changing the default port another option would be to add another port (provided this does work on XP). http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;555031 This way you could use just the computer name like normal. But on your router you only open the non-standard ports so externally you'd have to know the port number.

Most newer games can detect the CD/DVD drive directly and will read each until it finds the file it's looking for. For instance, I installed Quake 4 from my CD-RW drive...but I can put the disk in my DVD+RW drive and it'll still run. But you make a good point...any programs expecting to find the disk on the old drive letter may not work anymore. A registry edit or .ini file update will usually fix this though.

I specifically mentioned memory cards in the last post of that thread. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

You could also try RecoverMyFiles. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ I've used it with great success. It'll even recover files deleted from SD/MemoryStick/XD/etc cards. Also, as was mentioned...do not write anymore data to the D: drive until you run your recovery. When you do the recover, do not recover them back to the D: drive...recover them to another drive. If you write data and/or recover them back to the same drive then you take a chance on overwriting the clusters that hold the deleted file information. If this happens you won't be able to recover the data with any program.

What operating system? I'm going to assume Windows XP. Use Disk Management within Computer Management. Just right click on the drive (in Disk Management) and there will be an option for "Change Drive Letter and Paths". Change the DVD drive to something that isn't being used. Then change the memory card reader to the old DVD drive letter. Now go back and change the DVD drive letter (again) to the old card reader drive letter.

There can only be one SBS server in a domain (if I'm not mistaken, there can only be one SBS server on a network). So if this is SBS then having another domain controller to pickup if the primary fails is also out of the question... @cluberti: Sorry, you are correct about the other Active/Active setups (but you knew that ) I'm just used to dealing with the terms for SQL Server because that's what mine runs...

I was doing some searching a while back for products to do this very thing. Every search I did lead me back to GFI Software Ltd. http://www.gfi.com/pages/prodinfo.htm I have not yet purchased anything to do this, but I've read nothing but good things about their products. For your purposes I believe you would be looking at GFI LANguard Security Event Log Monitor.

Hehe...I didn't say I would trust it that way...I just said it would work. A lot of newer power supplies are coming with 24 pins but the extra four can be detached from the main connector if the motherboard only has a 20-pin connector.

You're sending this to them on CD for them to apply security options, correct? All you need to do is run this as part of the process: NETUSER %USERNAME% /pwnexp:n Also, if you want to setup some local "group policy" type settings you can run GPEDIT.MSC on one of your machines. Then grab the *.pol files from %SystemRoot%\system32\GroupPolicy\. Now just have your update process replace the ones on the local machine. After the files are overwritten include a command to run gpupdate /force to enforce the settings immediately. A lot of what you've probably already figured out how to do in the registry can be controlled by these settings...and the good thing about using the *.pol files is that even if they change the registry value the policy settings will change them right back. Oh...BTW, none of this will work unless they have local admin rights (something they really shouldn't have).

The only time you should have any drive I/O's while playing a game is when loading levels. If you're seeing an excessive amount outside of that then you're paging and need more RAM. Paging while playing a game will be a big performance hit regardless of where the page file sits...Doing other tasks that are disk intensive (again, video editing or reencoding a DVD come to mind) are best done on a disk with no other I/O's. If you move your page file to the second drive then which of the two evils do you choose when doing tasks such as these? The second drive with the page file (which does get used to some extent even if you aren't "paging") or the primary drive with Windows and all of your applications? If you don't have your page file on the secondary drive the choise is quite obvious. Drives are fast enough these days that the normal paging Windows XP does won't even be noticeable. If you run out of RAM and start using the pagefile for that purpose it's going to affect performance no matter where you have it. For this reason I have found it best to just leave it where Windows puts it during install, then set the maximum size the same as the default minimum size to prevent the pagefile from fragmenting should I start paging for some reason with 2GB RAM.

If I'm not mistaken the latest version of WinINSTALL LE isn't even free anymore...

I guess I should've asked that question initially... Are you looking for something in case your Active Directory Domain Controller goes down....or do you need the files to be available as well? What we're asking is what exactly does the current server do and what do you need to be available should that server fail? Also, fizban2....the terms Active/Passive and Active/Active only apply to SQL Server Clusters.

You have to request it from them...but they do have one.

What you want is failover clustering. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003...ng/default.mspx This requires at least two servers that are identical in both hardware and software. It also requires an external storage solution that is attached to both servers. This can be either an external SCSI enclosure attached to cluster aware RAID controllers in each server or a fiberchannel enclosure attached to fiberchannel HBAs (host bus adapters) in each server. Using a SCSI enclosure will limit you to only two nodes in the cluster* so you need to decide which method you want to use before purchasing any equipment. * Unless you use iSCSI, but see the information on the page linked above.

Also, were you logged in with FTP.EXE while trying to connect with CuteFTP?

These are local machine accounts instead of domain accounts? If so, you could use a 3rd party utlity called NETUSER.EXE with the following command: NETUSER account_name /pwnexp:n You can download NETUSER.EXE here.

I don't even move it anymore. Think about this... If you're doing disk intensive tasks (i.e. video editing, etc) which drive do you normally do them on? The second drive, right? So now you have your disk intensive tasks and the pagefile on the same disk. Does that really make sense to have all of your I/O operations on the same disk? I keep OS and application related tasks running on the primary drive (to include the pagefile...it's OS related) and do everything else on my secondary drive.

Speaking of Group Policy additions has anyone used PolicyMaker from DesktopStandard? It's supposed to be really nice. I can't make use of it in my environment (long story on the way we're structured), but I have used their legacy ProfileMaker application.

It should plug in...but the clip on the PSU's power connector will not line up to the catch on the motherboards power connector. The power plug will be all the way to one side with 4 open pins on the other end of the motherboard connector.

Local Security Policies is for a local machine. He needs to do it in Group Policy Management for the domain.

A motherboard BIOS update can add or update support CPU microcodes.

Check the motherboard manual...you may not need the adapter. Some of the newer motherboards have the "new" 24-pin connector but will still accept the old 20-pin power.

A better option would be to figure out what NTFS/registry permissions the application requires and set them appropriately.