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Ok I figured out the problem. The exclude.txt file DOES NOT NEED ANY PATHS, just the file or folders that you want exluded, ie: or if you want to exclude folders: Issue resolved if anyone ever needs to exclude files with xcopy!

hello fellow msfn'ers, I am creating a script at work to backup the docs, favs, desktop, & outlook pst folder to their network user drive. I am using the xcopy command with an exclude file, yet the exclude.txt file is giving issues, it will not exclude files on my desktop but it DOES exclude the my documents. Below is a copy of my exclude.txt Can some script guru help me with this? Thanks, ceez

thanks baywatch. I'll give that a try!

hello fellow msfn'ers! This is for all you scripting gurus (bowing down). Is there a script that we can run on the networ at logon that will change the local user account of the person login in from administrator to poweruser or anyother? I've googled but only found info to add users to OU's or to AD. ie: ceez, membership: adminstrator CHANGE TO memebership: poweruser. Thanks for you help, ceez

****...you guys are amazing, it's like you do this with your eyes closed! I think Mr Snrub got it, but I will definitely look into all of your options as a learning opportunity. I really appreciate it, ceez

@Bâshrat the Sneaky, thkz for the tip. I am trying to put it to use but it doesnt work. It wont even get to the pause at the end of the batch, it just exists and doesnt even copy anything. It deletes the url's in the first three lines but the rest is ignored. This is what I am writing: @gunsmokingman, I'll give the VBScripting a try later... Seems so much more complicated, considering I dont know VB! thkz again, ceez

Hello fellow msfn'ers... I am trying to create a batch file with the IF / ELSE command. ie: I want it to look for a file on c:\test.txt <b>but</b> if the file already exist, I dont want to perform the action of copying the test.txt file from a remote location to c:\ This is the actual steps I am trying: REM *** DELETING LINKS FROM START MENU **** IF EXIST "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Add A Printer.url" DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Add A Printer.url" IF EXIST "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\IT Home Page.url" DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\IT Home Page.url" IF EXIST "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Open A Ticket.url" DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Open A Ticket.url" REM *** CREATE 'IT LINKS' FOLDER **** IF EXIST "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\IT Links" ELSE EXIT my prob is here, if that folder 'IT LINKS' exist then do not continue the batch, just exit OR do the following 2 lines of creating the folder and copying the links inside the folder. md "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\IT Links" copy "\\bamdc001\sysvol\BAGLOBAL.NET\IT Links\*.*" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\IT Links\*.*" thanks for the help ceez

zup peeps, We have an IOMEGA NAS with 2003 Appliance Edition (NAS Version). For some reason all the shortcuts on the start menu are gone, ie: if you go to progs-accesories-communication it just says "empty". This happens with all the folders on the startmenu. When we right click even symantec corp 10.0 begins an install process like it was never installed. Any ideas why this happens? 2nd time in 2 weeks. We already flattened it and reinstalled the OS with the IOMEGA recovery cd. Thanks, ceez

@bezalel, WGET worked like a charm...pretty simple to use. it did the trick Thanks a million....by batch file is now complete!!!

Hello there fellow MSFN'ers!?!? Hope all is well... I am trying to automate the download of our spam filter software updates. These are simple text files located on a webpage http://turbogeeks.com/downloads/lists/ the 3 files are: domainblacklist.txt ipblacklist.txt subject.txt of course, the full path is: http://turbogeeks.com/downloads/lists/domainblacklist.txt http://turbogeeks.com/downloads/lists/ipblacklist.txt http://turbogeeks.com/downloads/lists/subject.txt the only command I tried was the copy command since it's the only one that sounds reasonable (in a weird way) copy "http://turbogeeks.com/downloads/lists/domainblacklist.txt" c:\update and of course this is my output: http://turbogeeks.com/downloads/lists/domainblacklist.txt The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. 0 file(s) copied. How can I accomplish this? Is this possible? Thanks for your help, ceez

no, i am not overclocking. Everything is default. So those 2 errors mean that I just have a bad stick no matter what? That sucks. The memory is 'ULTRA' from Tigerdirect...that should be low quality enough huh?!?! thkz

Zup fellow msfn'er? My PC has been experiencing some intermitent issues, freezing, rebooting, programs crashing, and other bsd which apparently indicate "faulty" ram. I decided to download memtest-86 v3.2 and ran it. After a whole night of diagnosing it gave me the following TST | PASS | FAILING ADDRESS | GOOD | BAD | ERR-BITS | COUNT | CHANNEL 7 | 0 | 00028100008 - 641.0MB | fae8c09f | fae8c09d | 00000002 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 00000168008 - 1.5MB | f79d5046 | f79d5044 | 00000002 | 1 | badram=0x28100008,0xfffffffc,0x00168008,0xffffffc badram=0x28100008,0xfffffffc,0x00168008,0xffffffc Does this mean the whole stick is bad or just those areas? Should ANY area be faulty? I am assuming no since any program can alocate that memory at any time. Thanks for your help deciphering this... ceez

Well slap me silly... It was the NetBIOS, it was disabled on both PC's. Enabled, rebooted and wallah! There are my pc's! thanks!

**** I forgot all that info...silly me... Yes, workgroup = ceez I just get to workgroup, select "ceez" and it's blank. nope, no drives shared, only the Administrative share on both pc's "c$". I still can only connect via IP, I have the printers and file setting checked on both. yes phew... thanks

Hey there fellow msfn'ers!?! As the topic title says, cant connect via UNC ie: \\computername\. I can only connect when using the ip address ie: \\192.168.1.xxx. This happens on both PCs. XP firewalls are enabled on both with file and printer sharing enabled. I am also abled to terminal service to each other but only when using the IP address to connect. I tried ipconfig/flushdns but no luck. I am probably missing a simple setting. Thanks for your help, ceez

awesome... making ghost boot cd's are no walk in the park! thanks for the info! ceez

ok, i installed the k-lite but I cant get audio from some avi's and wmv's?!?!? what the....? got it...a simple uninstall and reinstalled solved it. lets see how well it goes. thanks alot ceez

I'll give K-Lite Codec Pack 2.67 Standard a try. Anyone else have a different choice? thanks again ceez

Zup msfn'ers? I reformated my pc and need to install some codecs again in the system. I've always heard that installing ANY codec pack can mess up your PC...as in codecs not actually working and then being unable to remove/reinstall. Once I had trouble with the AC3 codecs. The app Gspot said I had the codec installed and it would would with the vid I had but I could not listen to any vid's that contained that audio codec. Fee-codecs has a boat load of different drivers like XP Codec Pack, Codec Pack All in 1, etc... What do you recommend I install? I want to able to watch most (or all) types of videos that are available on the web. Thanks, ceez

wow! it sounds crazy but awesome all at the same time?!?! how the heck did you think this one up? "Maybe if I fwd and fwd and fwd I might not get spam!?" I shall give that a try sometime thkz

Hello fellow MSFN'ers... I am trying to create a single script that will copy a bmp file to c:\windows and then enters that file name into the registry to make it the wallpaper of the log on screen (logon classic mode) =========== copy c:\BA1280.bmp c:\windows\ <-obvious, copy bmp to c:\windows\ reg delete "HKU\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper <- deletes the wallpaper key reg add "HKU\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper /d BA1280.bmp <- adds bmp file name to wallpaper key exit =========== The problem I am having is with the confirmation prompt, it asks if I want to delete the key or if I want to override the bmp image that's already there. I've tried the good ol' /y like when you're trying to use the copy command and want to suppress prompting to confirm, even tried -y... this doesnt work either! Even if you do a REG ADD /? or REG DELETE /? it does not give you an option to suppress prompting. I need it to suppress because eventually this will go in a group policy which will be deployed to all the workstations in the office, I dont need people being asked if they want to override stuff. Thanks for your help, Ceez Oh silly me, I finally googled the right keywords. the switch is: /f <- f = force, duh! Thanks anyways and hope that someone at least learned something!

hey there fellow msfn'ers.... I am working on a pc that is for some reason missing the option to compress files. I right click and the option is not there under "send to". How can I reinstall it or even reinstall all those "send to" options as they come default with xp? thanks alot ceez Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian

We are an architectural firm and have in office about 200 users, 30 users in an office about 40 miles north of our location, a total of about 100 users in about 7 sales centers, and a growing office of 15 users in our new york office, soon to expand to the middle east somewhere on an incredible job being done there, called The World. We are a total of 5, we just hired the 5th person who started on monday 11/28. There's (1)IT director, (1)Network Operations Admin, (1)Net. Engineer / Desktop Support, and then there's "rookie" and myself as Desktop Support....I will soon be upgraded to Network Administrator! Nice jump! The new guy will give the Net. Engineer / Desktop Support & myself time to focus on the administrative part of the network (AD, backup, operations, etc) which our IT Director wants us to know. The rookie can do the monitor/workstation moves, install/remove apps/hardware and other stuff. That's an average of about 80 users per tech and sometimes it seems like we do everything around the office....even things that we consider IT should not do we still do. "If it has a power button we take care of it"....that's our ongoing joke!

The A+ is the way to start, gives you the base knowledge of what you should know to put a pc together, undertand the different parts and basic OS troubleshooting. Will it help you find a job? Honestly, maybe not without the experience. You can interview but they'll ask you for experience. It's like my IT director tells me, "it's now about the papers, it's about being able to do the job right when put to the test". Man is that true. I am not a super dooper computer genious, I took my A+ back in 2000 and studied the CCNA program at the local community college and while I was doing the CCNA I decided to grab an examcram Network+ book and got that in 2 weeks (the CCNA helped alot for that one). All you have to do is read and mess up your computer a few times, if lucky set a 2 or 3 pc lab in a server/client scenario and go from there. It took me a few years to finally enter the business of the IT world and it's great. Soon you will be there if you have the drive to succeed and learn something new every day.

i was in the netacad program once (and it's not an easy course! ). you should be able to print directly from the webpage, might not be as nice as a pdf but you'll still be able to read.