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That option is at the bottom of the Processes tab. By "incomplete result" I assume you mean user X doesn't show all running processes?

WU/MU would've shown that as a critical update.

Task Manager options are per user. Be sure user X has the "Show processes from all users" option checked.

Windows XP cannot create a FAT32 partition over 32GB. You can use FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB but they can't be created with Windows XP. This is not a BIOS limitation.

BeyondCompare and WinMerge allow you to view the changes in text files/scripts in a side-by-side view. It's useful with new code releases to see what was changed/added/updated. For backup directory sync I've alwasy used XXCopy.

It could under load. Can you move the TV card?

This application was posted in another thread: http://www.k9webprotection.com/ It allows you to control what sites users of a given computer can or can't access. Best of all, it's free for home use.

WinMerge is comparable (no pun intended)...and it's free/open source. http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

No problem. I've got the script done. Create a blank mydocs.kix file (standard txt file with a different extension) and past the code below into it. You'll need KIX32.EXE available to all of the machines...but you can just place this in your NETLOGON share and call it from there. To call the KIX script from your logon script just add the following to your logon script: %0\..\KIX32.EXE %0\..\mydocs.kix If you don't want the users to see it running then use WKIX32.EXE with a /i switch like so: %0\..\WKIX32.EXE /i %0\..\mydocs.kix You'll need to create a share (hidden or not, up to you) that they have write access to. Download the attached mydocs.txt and rename it to mydocs.csv. Place the mydocs.csv on the share. Update the $FILE variable in the code below to point to the share you create. Using a CSV file will allow you to open the file directly in Excel. The information should only be written to the CSV file once. $FILE = "\\server\share$\mydocs.csv" If Open(1,"$FILE",2) = 1 $LINE = ReadLine(1) While @ERROR = 0 If InStr($LINE,@WKSTA) $X = "Yes" EndIf Loop Close(1) EndIf If $X = "Yes" ? "Information already written to file" Else If Open(1,"$FILE",5) = 1 $MyDocs = ReadValue("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders","Personal") ? "Writing information to file" WriteLine(1,@WKSTA + "," + @uSERID + "," + @DATE + "," + @TIME + ",$MyDocs," + @CRLF) Close(1) EndIf EndIf Should you decide that you want to completely move your logon scripts to KIX I'll be more than happy to help. I also recommend that you look into a good editor such as AdminScriptEditor or PrimalScript. I use both but personally prefer AdminScriptEditor for KIX. mydocs.txt

You really should look into using KiXtart for your logon scripts. It's free and was originally designed for just that purpose. I'll get you started with a script to read the key and append the information to a text file...just give me some time to create it. I'll post here when it's done.

As long as the PCI vid card has enough memory to hold the game textures you should be fine. The bottleneck is when the card has to buffer them out to system memory. This is a bottleneck for AGP cards as well, it's just not as noticeable because it has a dedicated bus that runs faster than the PCI bus. Installing a PCI video card will also give you some of your system RAM back since the integrated video uses system RAM for graphics RAM (which is slower).

There is currently no benefit of having dual core CPUs with games. It's been the same story with SMP systems for the past few years. However, all of the major game makers are working on dual core support. Take for instance the recent Quake 4 beta patches to add multiprocessing/multicore/multithreading support to the game. Granted right now it's heavily optimized for Intel setups but that's why it's still in beta. XBox360 and PS3 are both SMP and multicore machines. A lot of the game developers program for both consoles and PC games. Overcoming hurdles on those two consoles will help them overcome hurdles with the PC support as well. Multicore is definitely the future of both desktop and mobile PC computing so the support will eventually get there. It's just like when Intel first added MMX to their CPUs. The support took a while to get there but once it did the benefits were immediately noticeable.

Double that. A good PSU will cost $100US and up. Especially if you're looking for something that's SLI certified.

You can't buy a new OEM machine with an AGP slot. PCI Express has replaced the AGP slot in all of the tier 1 OEM machines. Does your wife's new machine have a PCI Express x16 slot?

All you need is a share that all users have write access to...they don't even need to know it's there. Have the logon script append the information to a text file. What scripting language is your logon scripts written in?

Different computer as in another laptop or a desktop computer? If you mean another laptop then yeah, just move it over. If you mean in a desktop you'll have to get a converter because laptop hard drives are a different physical size than desktop drives and they use a different connector.

The key words.Enabling AA greatly improves the gaming experience. Once you start playing with AA enabled you start to realize just how distracting those jaggies really are... If I can increase my antialiasing and anisotropic filtering settings without losing framerate then I'm definitely going to do it. Getting an SLI setup allows you to do that. It's really sad that people are still hung up on frames per second. The only games that mattered on are Quake III and most games based on that engine...and this is only because higher frame rates would allow you to strafe jump faster. In any other game sustaining 40FPS or higher isn't going to make any difference.

Vitalix is correct. It's best to get the another identical card if at all possible. But, with the latest ForceWare drivers the card manufacturers can be different as long as everything about the cards is the same (i.e. you have two 6600 based cards instead of one 6600 and one 6600GT).

i played around with it i didnt like it much and chances are there are plenty of 3rd party ones that have a lot more features. What exactly would you like to do with it? I've never run across anything that I couldn't do with it. You can even pass a script with commands to it for auto downloading stuff on a schedule. how exactly i havnt been able to do anything via the command line and the help command is useless Basically you put your commands in a text file. For instance, below is the content of a cescript.txt that I use for SAV updates: open ftp.symantec.com anonymous savce@update.com cd AVDEFS/norton_antivirus/static lcd C:\Scripts\savce bin hash prompt get navup8.exe quit Then you start the FTP with a -s command like so: ftp -s:cescript.txt Just curious: is it possible to write a script that compares the folder on local computer with one on the host computer (ftp, including a few subfolders) and then delete the files that are not present or newer on local computer installing new versions on the host? In other words - synchronize two sites? There are programs that are designed specifically for this. I believe FTP Voyager has a function for this...it's not CMD based though.

Can you tell if the installation continues on? Is there hard drive or CD/DVD drive activity?

The XDB method works as advertised for the client version, otherwise they wouldn't include the location of where to put the file in the instructions I linked. The main reason to use this method is because LiveUpdate will only get updates once a week...no matter how often you schedule it. But, the XDB file is updated daily. If you use a script along with Task Scheduler you can have your virus definitions updated daily. I use this method on several of our workstations that aren't in the domain so they aren't managed by the SAV Parent Server(s). However, you are correct in that updating the vdefhub.zip in the installation source will install the latest definitions at install time (or whatever version you last updated it to). It'll work...but that still doesn't make it an approved method.

TAKEOWN only gives ownership to the Administrators group or the current user. You can specify a user, but you have to know that user's password. Ths is perfect for your own account, but I believe he wants to give ownership of certain directories to the user the directory belongs to and I doubt he knows all of his users' passwords. SubInACL allows you to specify who you are giving ownership to, which I believe is what he wants to do. As an aside...if you're using Quota Management directory/file ownership management is a must. The quotas are determined by which directories/files the user is an owner of.

i played around with it i didnt like it much and chances are there are plenty of 3rd party ones that have a lot more features. What exactly would you like to do with it? I've never run across anything that I couldn't do with it. You can even pass a script with commands to it for auto downloading stuff on a schedule.

Not without doing the vbdefhub.zip "hack" (not really a hack because it does work, it can just cause problems with LiveUpdate later). You could write an AutoIt script to kill the window. Here's one that I use for another application we install. All you need to do is change the Window Title in the WinClose statement and compile it. If @OSVersion <> "WIN_98" And @OSVersion <> "WIN_ME" Then BlockInput(1) EndIf Sleep(1000) WinClose("Oracle for Windows NT") Sleep(1000) If @OSVersion <> "WIN_98" And @OSVersion <> "WIN_ME" Then BlockInput(0) EndIf Exit

That's why I asked. I just knew off the copy of my head that /s, /v and /f were all switches for REG ADD.