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This tweak is described around the net to be so that XP will not look in NETLOGON for ntconfig.pol file. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update] "UpdateMode"=dword:00000000 Does anyone know if this will impact GPOs?

Not for "auto arrange", pare.

Anyone know where on the net I can find some cool pics to use that are already in the specs for using as OEMLOGO.BMP?

Nice script. Do you know how to turn the "password never expires" off? That is, so the option is deselected in user manager? Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks. My company wants us to turn it off. Here's their reasoning: Password Expiration. Severity: Important (Cat II) Status : Open PDI ID : 1745 Finding Details HelpAssistant password does not expire. SUPPORT_388945a0 password does not expire. xadministrator password does not expire. xguest password does not expire. Vulnerability Discussion Category II - Allowing individual users to have passwords that never expire, gives the ability of unauthorized system users to crack passwords and gain access to a system. Scheduled changing of passwords will hinder this ability. Manual Fix Procedures Ensure that individual users are not setup with the option password never expires. References and Additional Resources FSO Checklist: 5.07.1.2 NSA NT Guide: Chap. 5, p. 30; NSA WIN2K Guide, Group Policy: Security Configuration Toolset: Chap. 3, p. 22; DODD 8500.1 Para 4.18; DODI 8500.2 DCCS-2, DCSC-1; CJCSM 6510.01 App. A, Enclosure A, Para. 5.b (8)

@Afterdawn This code and documentation rocks!!!! I'd like to try to get it to work with apps spanned over multiple CD/DVDs. Will post if it works. That would make it a low maintenance solution because you don't have to mess with anymore scripts on the XP CD, just in your folders for all your new apps. I can't use the file server solution because I work with a variety of classified networks that are of varying classifications, so I'm stuck with the disk swapping.

You can't? Oh, my bad... I guess the 1500+ PCs I used this for were all faking it, huh? I concur with Afterdawn. You can't. You're not getting the absolute path. Guess those 1500+ PCs are posin' if you're using that code.

or even easier.... been doin' it this way myself well over a year...you can check an old post of mine and see the many ways I used to use it... http://www.osnn.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-36648.html Maybe I'm smokin' dope, but I don't see how the for /f loop applies to original scenario, either. Where does it pick off all the "!commands.cmd" file in the apps tree? It looks like it's recursively executing every file in the apps folder. I think it's in the right direction, but the code doesn't seem complete. Can you give us the complete code that would pick off the !commands.cmd files? Thanks.

Maybe I'm smokin' dope, but I don't see how the for /f loop applies to original scenario, either. Where does it pick off all the "!commands.cmd" file in the apps tree? It looks like it's recursively executing every file in the apps folder. I think it's in the right direction, but the code doesn't seem complete. Can you give us the complete code that would pick off the !commands.cmd files? Thanks.

It's too late for me to go into VMWare. I got too many virtual machines already built in VPC. Thanks, anyway.

Greetings from Korea!!! Will hitting alt-tab to make it full screen help solve your problem? BTW, does anyone know how to mount an ISO image? I've been using Daemon Tools to mount my images, but was wondering if the functionality is already in VPC. Thanks.