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Approx. 8000 registered network devices between student, staff and faculty on campus, computers, printers, etc. We will also to an extent support the personal computers which our employees and students have at home and are not owned by the school. 3 - Full Time HW/SW repair technicians 3 - Flex Time HW/SW repair technicians, remaining time they install new systems. 8 - call center help desk employees 40-50 - distributed support personnel around campus in departments 140-160 other IT personnel for networking, programming, data services support and deployment. This number also includes management.

This process has work for me on numerous drives belonging to customers when we pull them and place them in our data recovery systems. If you haven't already done it turn off "Use Simple file sharing" To do this open my computer, select tools menu, folder options. All the way at the bottom of the list on the Views tab under advanced settings is a check box to "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)" remove the check mark and click OK to close the Folder Options window. Now right click on the drive/folder with the problem. (If you select the drive you can reset permissions for all files/folders contain on it and start over.) Select Properties and then select the Security Tab. Click the Advanced button. Select the Owner tab. Select your preferred user name or group, and place a check in the box for "Replace owner on sub-containers and objects" Click OK and wait it takes about 5-10 minutes depending upon the size of your drive and how much stuff you have on it. If it comes up with a security warning click yes to replace permissions.

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if the drive had GoBack installed before you moved everything then you need to turn off GoBack protection on that drive. Check out Gobacks site for the how to. There is a command line utility you run if memory serves that will allow you to access the drive again. If you don't care about what is on it then low level format it and start over.

Since the OS you installed them under is no longer there all you need to do is delete the applications folder. Or reinstall the software to the same location as before and then uninstall it.

Well the smart application developers won't have to change a thing. Because they will either be dynamically getting this setting from the registry, or using the environment variable 'APPDATA'. Same goes for other folder which have moved. Most had references in the registry for lookup, or have system environment variables assigned.

How Windows assigns drive letters: 1. Assign the drive letter 'A' to the boot floppy, and 'B' to the secondary floppy. 2. Assign a drive letter, beginning with 'C' to the first active primary partition recognized upon the first physical hard disk. 3. Assign subsequent drive letters to the first primary partition upon each successive physical hard disk drive, if present within the system. 4. Assign subsequent drive letters to every recognized logical partition, beginning with the first hard drive and proceeding through successive physical hard disk drives, if present within the system. 5. Assign subsequent drive letters to any RAM Disk. 6. Assign subsequent drive letters to any additional floppy, CD/DVD drives. T-39 - DetachedProgram - winnt.sif setting

Either repartition/reorganize your drives so they will automatically be lettered correctly, or run a diskpart script during t-39 to correctly letter the drives.

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See what this does for you. Configuring Windows Networking for Remote Access. Use this documentation to configure Windows to logon to the Windows Network after the VPN tunnel is established. from: http://www.sonicwall.com/support/VPN_documentation.html

I think if MSFT was going to have a problem with MSFN it would have happened already. After five years I don't see it happening, especially when their own tech support uses it to provide answers to problems.

Whatever you or another person names it when the extract it from the cd. You can get a copy of it from the unattended guide here: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/15/

You might try posting/looking in the XPCREATE forum. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=87

So what then is to prevent this admin user from changing the rights from deny to permit? Because in order set them to deny they have to be listed as a user for that folder. They clicked the button to change to allow and away they go. Again works great for non admin users.

Changing the ACLs on a folder will work fine as long as no one that you are trying to prevent viewing it has administrative rights. Anyone with admin rights can take back ownership and change permissions on the folder. If the above case is the situation you are in then the Microsoft private folders may be a better option or something similar. Broadcom has a security platform software solution which part of it gives you an encrypted folder. I seem to recall that Utimaco also has a similar product. Just don't forget you password or you are hosed.

does you updatehal line not have the underscore on purpose? the docs show: updateHAL="ACPIAPIC_MP,%WINDIR%\....."

Yes, pretty much.

sounds like a great excuse for disk cloning, like ghost or acronis.

You have a couple of options. You may likely have to combine a couple of them to accomplish what you want to do. The difference between any of the above files is just a handful of files which are added or changed for each version. So you could create a multiboot cd and optimize it to eliminate the duplicate files and likely fit all of the PRO installs on on cd and all of the Home installs on another. You may be able to fit them all on one cd, you would have to see how big it got. There is also a post here dealing with making a single OEM cd for multiple manufacturers which may help in your endeavor.

Never been tested with W2k, at least to my knowledge. v2 should work with 2k, hope to release it by the end of the week.

You can reassign the mouse buttons through the mouse control panel. You may need to install the drivers for your mouse to do it depending upon your mouse.

Yes, if you create it in notepad when you save it the extension should be changed to .CMD. Good luck.

FOR %%f IN (*.exe) DO "%%f" /Integrate:C:\XPCD this piece of code searchs the current folder for any file with the extension EXE. Then runs that executable withe the integrate switch to integrate the hotfix into the installation source at c:\xpcd. A list of hotfixes can be found here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=31886# For more information you can check out the Unattended Guide at http://unattended.msfn.org

Double driver misses a lot of files. Driver genius isn't free for the full version, and I've had the free version miss files. Mine is free for anyone to use, and though it may still have a few bugs, it will pull all of the files for a driver that it finds. I'm currently working on an updated version which is faster. The file search is the slowest part of the application and I've managed to narrow the searches and speed them up but there are still a few issues before I release it for general consumption.

Great idea. I think you might see more interest though if it was written in a native windows script.