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The few times Ive seen this subject come up, ppl have always said it cant be done.... or at least they didnt know if there was a way.

What are you using for a command marthax?

While Ive seen it requested numerous times (including from myself) Ive never seen anyone ever figure out a way to do a non-quick ntfs format. Ive also never seen anyone use the * with FileSystem. Ive only ever known to use "FileSystem = ConvertNTFS", which only does a quick ntfs format. Are you positive setting FileSystem = * does a full NTFS format??

There seems to be about 20 sites / forums out there for pretty much every programming language known to man... but I cant, for the life of me, find any devoted site/forum which discusses batch programming. Anyone know of 1 out there? TIA!

The PC which is sharing the files has a static IP so this wouldnt apply to my configuration. and I have offline files disabled. I honestly figured this to be a problem with the pc's accessing the files, not the host, but assuming RumaNoV's results actually fixed the problem and not simply coincedental, then perhaps the issue resides in the host pc after all. Im going to try to get around to reformatting my host pc within the next couple days with an un-modified windows install cd... which is not what was used to install the version thats on it now. ill post back results as soon as I do. btw.. a big thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread. i thought i was the only one having this issue and figured i wouldnt recieve much assistance as its such a completely random and strange problem. you guys rock for sifting through 7 pages of ranting to try to help figure out someone elses problem.

now did you reformat the pc which you were hosting the files from or the pc you were trying to access the files from?

Again, no idea what youre talking about. This is the only screen ive ever seen on windows xp pc's when going to the properties of tcp/ip....

What operating system are you looking at, cause the above certainly doesnt exist in any version of windows xp ive ever come across.....

I also tried doing what you suggested Don and still have the same effects. Also, I just realized that its not just folders that have this issue... I just experienced a couple files that arent showing up amongst others that are. Well, not that it should make any difference, but I plan on reformatting the share host and one of the client pcs having the issues accessing the shares, with an un-altered winxp source.

Well, personally, since my 1st Win 3.1 comp Ive always installed my applications to other locations than the Program Files directory. I have sub-dirs of my sys drive such as 'internet', 'entertainment', 'multimedia', etc... and have never had a problem with it. It makes it MUCH easier to track stuff down as opposed to sifting through 100 dirs in the progfiles folder. but thats just my personal preference. thanks for the response regardless

Where would I see that?

I know theres some out there, but was wondering if anyone uses / recommends a particular program. Im looking for a program (freeware preferably), which allows you to store network settings 'profiles'. I travel for work and am having to constantly change my network settings (changing ip addresses, dns, from static to dhcp, etc) depending on where I plug my laptop into. So it be nice to have profiles setup for say 'office', 'home', 'hotel', etc. Thanks in advance!

Holy crap bilemke... you obviously didnt read a bit of this thread did you... those suggestions were the very 1st ppl offered and the very 1st i tried before even posting here for that matter.... and it doesnt in fact work flawlessly.

Actually, a title isnt necessarily required. The only time its required is when you use quotes for your program/command, of which you only need to use if there are spaces in either the program name or path. So when you do use quotes, the start command expects the 1st set of quotes to be the title and the second set of quotes for the command to run. Lastly, you dont need to actually need to put in a title description, using 2 double quotes will also suffice. So.. the following all work. start /wait c:\blah.cmd start /wait "this is my title" c:\blah.cmd start /wait "title title" "c:\blah.cmd" start /wait "" c:\blah.cmd You get the point.... Oh 2 other things... the title does in fact set the title bar of the command prompt window the command is running in; its the only function it serves and it doesnt matter if you place it before or after the '/wait' parameter.

not sure if it was just a typo or not, but you want to make sure you take off the leading slash. also, from what Ive gathered, because its a shell command you need to call it though that... cmd /c start "" /wait "command to run"

Well I can tell you with at least the PC's trying to access these shares- they havent been 'tweaked' at all, so unless this reg tweak on the hosting pc would somehow cause this problem, Im dont think that would be the issue. Also.. @k0pect8 What do you mean by master broswer? Im only using Windows Explorer to access these shares.

**** this is lame.

Not that it really matters, but its not hit or miss with me.. the missing folders are always missing... its not that they show up sometimes and dont others. I think thats everyone elses experience as well?

Windows XP SP2 Windows XP SP2 Yes.. its always the same folders which dont show up, regardless of PC No rhyme or reason here. Of a top lvl directory, there may be 2-3 folders which dont show up in it. Of those which do show up, there are sub-directories in them which dont show up as well.. so in other words, its not all 1 lvl or one 'branch' of a directory tree structure. No. Out of 3 pcs on my network, 2 can see all folders via IP, 1 cant- the one that cant is also the one which doesnt have that TCP/IP / NETBIOS Helper service, so this may be the problem here. No Yes and no. This is the really wierd thing here.. try to follow me here... If I simply rename it by removing any amount of letters from the end of the folder name (i.e. folder named 'Testing' I rename to 'Tes'), the sub-folders still dont show up, this is the case all the way down to 1 letter. And get this... If I remove up to 2 of the 1st 2 letters of the folder, the missing folders still dont show up, BUT if I remove more than 2 they show up! I tested this out on numerous parent dirs of the missing folders and the results were the exact same... all of the parent folder names vary in character length!! (anyone who is experiencing the same problem.. please test this out as Id be very curious to hear if its the same across the board) If I add characters to the beginning, middle or end of the filename or rename it entirely the sub-dirs show up. As soon as you rename it back, however, the same folders disappear again. The results are the same regarless if the folder is renamed from the pc accessing the shares or the host pc itself. What the hell!?!?!?! Nope.Another tidbit Ill add (however useless it may be) is that when the parent of the missing folders is shared out directly, I can veiw all sub-dirs without issue. However, this only seems to work 1 lvl at a time. In other words, if I share out the parent of the parent of the folder which contains missing folders, the missing folders dont show up (that make sense to anyone?? heh).

Im well aware of how to use the start /wait function... my question is whether or not they work in RunOnceEx.

So has/is anyone actually used/using this without issue? Ive just run into a couple items in my RunOnceEx which start prior to the previous job finishing, which I dont want to happen. So to keep this from happening and to also clean up my RunOnceEx, Ive decided to create a batch file for all of my program installs which will contain the install command. Yes I know... I should just test it for myself, but Ive been way busy lately and need to reformat my pc pronto. Thanks as always guys.

I searched around a bit but couldnt find as to whether or not anyone was successfully using the 'start /wait' command in their RunOnceEx.

1st off Cartoon hit the nail on the head to each of those replies above... An interesting concept, and one I hadn't even considered. As I mentioned before, I was testing using my Media Folder, which contains quite a number of files (over 3000 mp3s alone; guess who owns way too many CDs...). Total files shared was still probably less than 5000, but I suppose it could still be the issue... Anyone else have any thoughts on this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I actually am using the admin shares to access my files/folders (i.e. d$\music). Ive also tried just sharing the folder out but unless I actually share the particular folder that doesnt show up when sharing one of its parents, it has the same effect regardless. Question to ppl having this issue: Are you seeing that the folders which dont show up are the same folders every time or are you finding that one folder may show up sometimes, but not others?

@Nakkoush I found this out the hard way and if you dig hard enough, you should have come across it in a couple of those NAV related posts... but many ppl (including myself) have reported issues when attempting to download the latest virus definitions manually and extracting them, rather than getting them via live update directly. My suggestion is to not even bother with silently installing updated virus definitions... for a few reasons actually. 1. within about 3 days theyre just going to be outdated anyway... and you def dont want to be making a new UACD everytime new updates come out. 2. even if you get the latest and greatest virus updates, there are still other components (WMI Update, NAV Engine Update, etc) that you cant download manually and apply.. which means updated virus defs or no, youre still going to need to run live update after NAV installs. 3. it causes issues with the overall install... dunno why, but again many have posted issues with doing so, so the 30 seconds of downloading updates really not worth the headaches of troubleshooting the issue. hope this helps!!

I bet you dream of days where every msfn member searches for their answer and uses code tags, dont you alanoll... heh.