dman

Is system restore turned on? That can also burn a lot of space.

I removed tons of malware from a clients computer (XP Home w/ SP2). AVG, spybot, ad-aware and ms spyware remover all say the system is now clean. Everything works now except automatic updates. They download, but as soon as they start to install I get error msg "updates were unable to be successfully installed", with no explanation of why. It does this with any of the updates, so the update itself is not the problem. Any Ideas?

There is no need for the fat32 partition, as latest linux 2.6.x kernel supports read/write for NTFS volumes. You may have to recompile your kernel to add this support depending on your distro. I have never had any trouble with swap partition. I have 120 GB maxtor with two 40 gb NTFS partitions, one 35 GB ext3 partition and one 5 gb linux swap. I suggest NOT installing linux bootloader to MBR of XP disk... Install it to Boot sector of Linux partition and call it from NT boot menu. I can elaborate if this is not clear.

can't do it without 3rd party tools like activeicons or customicons. MS offers this advice.... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310192

using tweakui in my computer/drives section you can hide drives from explorer and file dialog boxes. I don't think it prevents access to the drive through the command prompt or other means, however.

Munge.exe munge.zip

Also lots of great stuff by Bart Lagerweij (the BartPE guy) http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

SED (stream editor) is one of the most common and useful commands in UNIX. It is also available for DOS/Windows. It is basically a command line "find and replace" utility. Command is usually something like SED <input file>, <text to replece>, <replacement text> You can find some info on it here... http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/ There is also a command called "MUNGE" in the NT4 resource kit that is much the same as SED http://www.ss64.com/nt/munge.html

You havent asked a question yet. What do you want to know about it? Are you looking for the program, or how to use it. Be more specific http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html

@fftb Schedule wizard looks very versitile, but since it runs in the tray, users can still easily shut it down. BTW, what ever happened to Count Duckula? Is he still on? I used to love that show. @u41 I have some application kicker code that runs as a service. I used it in a project to periodically check for backup files and run backup if they didn't exist. Wouldn't be hard to modify to run your batch file. With a little extra code it could check for process directly. It is written in VB6. Do you code? If so I could send you the source if you are interested. If not, I could modify it for you when I get a chance. dman

Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland thru some good headphones - blow your mind. While working I like High-Energy Punk Like Offspring, Blink182 & The Vandals. Old Skool Metal like Iron Maiden, WASP, Pantera, Metallica in the car.

41... Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ability!

Edit boot.ini in the root folder and remove the extra boot menu entries. (back up first!)

Windows Explorer / View / Details. to set them all... get the view the way you want then - tools / folder options view / apply to all folders

use XCOPY /I parameter. This tells command to assume that the target is a directory. Use xcopy /? to see all options.

I witnessed an exchange like this thread on a Yahoo message board the other day. It was between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews arguing which was the “True” Jewish people. It was a pointless and self defeating exchange that only served to cause division between groups that, to an outside observer were indistinguishable. Come on, people! We are all Windows users, derided equally by the MS haters of the world. Time on this forum would be much better spent helping each other and exchanging real ideas, not whipping this dead horse.

You beat me to it, ken I second your vote for IZArc. Best one I have tried. http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/ faster mirror (their site is slow) http://izarc.sanesecurity.com/

Right click on recycle bin, then click "Empty Recycle Bin" from menu

Try UBCD4Win. It's BartPE plus every tool you will ever need plus tons of 3rd party driver support. http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Hi Longz, welcome to msfn. You can't slipstream the restore disks because they aren't install disks, they are an image (backup) of a freshly installed partition, the way the computer was the first time you turned it on. Best thing for you to do if you don't want to spend any $$ is to get your system all set up the way you want then use ms backup (in valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder of XP install disk, not installed by default) and do a automated system recovery and full system backup of your own. Then you can always get right back to a clean system without all the install and reboot stuff.

Your "icanhide" code is very clever, also kinda scary. It looks like it renames a program that is known to always be running (explorer) to the generic "svchost", then disguises itself as explorer. It looks like it wouldn't be too hard to modify this code to hide not only the icanhide program itself, but to find the next running process, also disguise it as svchost and then hide another external process specified in the icanhide code. (or just hide the external target as svchost) It also looks like this will only hide things from task manager, not a custom scanner. Any way you do it you have "something" running in the task manager. Don't think it's possible to completely hide, only disguise. It is well that it is so hard to do this, or virus writers would have used it to render Windows completely unusable.

It is not possible to hide process under NT. This is for security reasons, and why MS removed this function from API. Have you tried running the exe as a service via srvany.exe from NT resource kit? The srvany exe will show up in the process list, but not the target exe.

First, please explain why you want to do this or you probably won't get any help.

Linksys, UGH! Dump that and get a d-link, netgear, belkin.... anything but linksys. I have had problems with every one of their products I have touched.

sync palm-thunderbird http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/2004/08/28/thu...alm-sync-fixed/