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D8TA..... on your pc...are you a poweruser,administrator? is your computer on a domain? if so...your domain admins probally have the pc locked down.

i wonder if you "erase" the disk to many times, will it cause it's performance to degrade? not talkin about formating...but sector by sector data eraseing.

what are the specs of your pc?

I'm lookin for a good hard drive eraser to format hardrives... i'm not talkin about using fdisk, or disk management to delete the partions and create..ect.... a utility that wrights 1's and 0's on the sectors to destroy data. i found a utility at www.killdisk.com it works pretty good....but lookin around.... what do you all use?

if you have no cdrom drive showing up in "my computer" then you have a hardware problem... even if the cdrom light is "flickering" just for grins...can you replace the cdrom drive? just to see if it is a hardware problem

i think you might have a hardware problem...can you replace the rom drive to see if that fixes it?

what kind of pc is it? dell, compaq, ect...cutom built? did this cdrom work before?

couple of questions.... did you just add the drive? do you already have a cdrom drive in? if so... did you slave it off the 1st cdrom drive? if not... did you go into the bios of your pc and turn it on?

not a problem..just annoying... in the autoplay tab of my cd/dvd rom drive i choose "take no action" for music files,pictures,video files,mixed content, ect..... i'll see if that fixes it...

so...disabling autorun causes this?

dell system's that ship with dvd roms usally comes with cyberlink dvd decoder. install those drivers that shipped with the notebook.

ok..so i'm not the only one going crazy then with this problem... well..not crazy...just annoyed when it does happen...

Ever once in a while...and after numerous clean installs (no nlite, using vl disk from ms) after i eject a cd or a dvd i will go back to "my computer" and it will still show up as if it is still in the drive. the icon and the name ect is still there...i'll refresh (f5), eject the drive ect....yet it still shows up as if there is a data/music disc in there, i don't mean where i can browse the disk drive and look at its content, just where it shows up in "My Computer"...course after a while it goes away....just a little annoying. so has anyone else experienced this? and if so... how to fix... thanks....

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check out attachment and see if your settings are like those.....

did you use nlite, or any other modified cd to install your os? ect....

but what if you don't use nlite?

thats like "my house is on fire....should i get out?" common sense people

maybe you should reboot.

do you mean outlook express? you can't open a foler in outook express if that is what you are wanting....

ok..my bad...i was wrong...but.... i can control the console of a pc...and rdp into it (which is worthless) i can't control a rdp session....after the rdp has been established. sorry about my earlier posts....

not true

actually..i think you can run a shutdown script. run gpedit.msc computer configuration\windows settings\scripts

beol what is it your trying to acheive? delete some settings, some temp files then shutdown? Gouki the -p option is not available in the shutdown command.

as a network admin, i purchased some software that allows me to interact with the computers on the network. it works great as to help people out so i don't have to walk all over the place...ect..ect.. one day i noticed my co-worker rdp into a xp machine, so using my software i started to control the xp machine. i could see everything he was doing. so yes, rdp connections can be watched.