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Ok, we can ping the file server all day. But in Explorer, typing in \\192.168.0.110 just results in a message "windows cannot find \\192.168.0.110" Other machines can connect to the file server just fine. Any ideas?

yah, WUD is at it's best in the months after an SP release to collect all of the detrius that MSFT dumps on us. Immediately after an SP release, not so much.

both of you guys need to post your .ini file (as attachments, please) so that people can look at them.

Nuhi, will that be a 'silent' update?

so do you have an inside track to a *real* 4.3.1 version or is this really for 4.3a?

not just the matrox cards, but their 3/4 in 1 splitter devices.

matrox

right now, 22" 16:9 screens are the sweet spot in the industry. If you want a larger display (wider??) go with a good panel that has a very narrow frame, get 2-3 of them sitting next to each other, and use a multi-monitor video card from Matrox to build your desktop. No one does multi-monitor and stretched desktops better than Matrox. Both ATi and nVidia do it, but not not as well. Their focus is on getting the last single-digit percentage of performance out of a 3D chipset, Matrox builds cards that perform at about 95% of ATi and nVidia but have rock solid drivers and multi-monitor support.

also available via standard TechNet so if you have any kind of support or developer login/ID from MSFT, you should be able to d/l the instller from an 'official' site.

No pirated copy from me, was just double-checking something put up on the office server by one of the part-time weekend staff. She was very dodgy when I asked her what MSFT Connect login ID she used to gain legit access to the d/l. We've got a few none of which she should have access to. Time to change passwords I suppose. We have some monitoring running on the archive and SCCS servers that send email alerts whenever a 'new' executeable or anything over a certain size is added to the pile. Doesn't matter if it passes Trend Micro scanning. Oh, and I'm reading a few things that seem to be saying that SP3 RC1 integrates 'better' onto an SP1/RTM source image than on an SP2 image. Plain-old installing/upgrading an already running system works fine, it's the integration that is problematic. Anyone actually run across this?

yup, the Pioneer 212D is a most excellent drive and can easily be found for about U$ 35-

If anyone has SP3 RC1 from a legit (MSFT) source, would you please post the MD5 hash and exact byte size for it? thanks!

some card makers will take a GPU and overclock the hell out of it hoping that huge heatsinks will take care of any potential problems. Doesn't always work that way. Whatever card you use make sure that the drivers let you control the overclocking.

hmmmm asking for tech help on a bootleg copy of windows......

and the original OS, any addons, hotpacks, and service packs are ALL the same language, yes?

doesn't really matter what MSFT says about things like ram and disk requirements. The bottom line is that if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Plain as that.

exactly how did you 'remove' the help system and chm files?

will nlite 'walk' a directory tree to find available drivers or... do they all have to be in the same directory -or- keep pointing nlite at all of your driver directories until it picks them all up ??? and thanks!

When necessary, I run my 'old' IDE DVD combo r/w drives on SATA with the use of a few SATA/IDE paddle card converters. Works great. The coverters I buy all have JM 20330 chipsets. JM makes chipsets to run ATA100/133 to SATA 1.5 and 3.0 channels. However, I also note that SATA-only mobos are few and far between. Usually there is at least one ATA133 connector available. And we all have piles of ATA cables in that box in the basement to go along with those perfectly useable DVD combo drives.

so how much memory are you allocating to the various VMs that are failing?

nice.....

you do know that 2.0.0.10 is a rc release only, don't you?

'*' is reserved by a lot of programs for a global widecard so it's a VERY BAD idea to use it (as well as '?') in passwords.

openoffice can be programmed (python) quite easily to batch convert files. I'm pretty sure that you will be surprised at the variety of word processing file formats it supports.

plugin.ocx is a pretty generic filename. I've seen it (most often) reference to a specific MSIE file (hosts Netscape-style plugins) **and** as wholly different files for Access, Oracle9/10, etc, etc. This article may be of relavance: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912945 If we're talking about the MSIE component, it appears to make a great difference in which order that plugin.ocx is registered when compared to other MSIE components.