FAT64

The "size" is the total number of "bytes" used in the file. For example, if I created a Notepad document with just the word "hello" written inside, the size would be 5 bytes. The "size on disk" is how much hard disk space the file uses when saved. A hard drive is divided into tracks and sectors, each sector can hold 512 bytes of data. However, for reasons I won't go into, sectors are grouped together to form "clusters". One cluster is the minimum space used for a file. Windows 2000 & XP has a cluster size of 4Kbytes (8 sectors), so my original Notepad file would use 4096 bytes of hard disk space.

My excuse is that my MCSA is in Windows 2000

AFAIK you cannot disable or delete the built-in Administrator account, however you should at least rename it and give it a complex password.

Logon as the second Administrator, right-click My Computer select Manage, click on the "+" of Local Users and Groups, click on Users, right-click the built-in Administrator account and select Reset Password.

The new Microsoft/Giant offering owns!

My ego?? That's rich!! For crying out loud quit your "wannabe" ramblings, I'm bored with your banal comments!

When you learn how to install DNS manually without having a whole bunch of problems with AD afterwards, then you will have the right to question my competency.

If you have problems with AD after installing DNS manually, then maybe you don't know as much as you clearly think you know, dude.

Just how can it be any better if you set it up properly manually?? It would be easier and faster maybe, but certainly not better. Setting things up manually, you get a better idea of what is going on with your server/network.

Yes, dcpromo will install DNS, but it's not the same as configuring it manually. At the very least, it doesn't create a Reverse Lookup Zone.

1. Give your server a static IP address: 2. Enter Domain Name in the My Computer properties: Restart 3. Add DNS Windows component: 4. Run DNS from the start menu, and configure the DNS server: 5. Add IP address of your DNS server to the IP settings of your network card: 6. Run dcpromo: Restart

I think Windows has been written in a mixture of Assembler, compiled Pascal, C, C++ and now C#.

You must be off your rocker, Delphi is a thousand times better than VB!!

The best preparation for these certificates is probably a mixture of both experience and book-reading. You can pass these tests by just reading books because you take an online exam and not a practical test. If you had to demonstrate your skills, then the pure book-readers would probably fail, but it's just questions in an online test.

You sorted it out!! Good for you!

All I can say further, is that it definitely works in Delphi 7.

I'm intrigued as to why the GetComputerName function is within a "FormCreate" method? Try ... (Place a Button on the Form, double click on it and type "ShowMessage (GetComputerName)" inside. Also what do the Labels do??) unit Unit1; interface uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, StdCtrls; type TForm1 = class(TForm) Label1: TLabel; Label2: TLabel; private { Private declarations } public { Public declarations } end; var Form1: TForm1; implementation {$R *.DFM} function GetComputerName; string; var buffer: array[0..MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1] of Char; Size: Cardinal; begin Size := MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1; Windows.GetComputerName(@buffer, Size); Result := StrPas(buffer); end; procedure Button1Click(Sender:TObject); begin ShowMessage (GetComputerName) end; end.

Can you post the entire program?

It might be a "feature" of Delphi 3.

Did you forget the "@"?

Indeed, as you suggested, you could use ... function GetComputerName: string; var buffer: array[0..MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1] of char; Size: Cardinal; begin Size := MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1; Windows.GetComputerName (@buffer, Size); Result := StrPas (buffer) end; ... don't know if it works with Delphi 3, it certainly works with Delphi 7!

Your computer name appears many times in the registry, which you can access via Delphi. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName

Is the cable connecting the NICs a "crossover" cable? Do you have any Firewalls installed??

Run "regedit" and open the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot You will see Network and Minimal keys in it. Rename them to "Minimal.BAK" and "Network.BAK". Your safe mode is screwed up now... Nobody can use it. On your head be it, I accept no responsibility or liability!

The vast majority of BSODs I've experienced have been memory (RAM) problems.