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Excel Macro: 'look at the value of the current cell for value of zero. 'If not on the current cell the use range("A1").value, 'where A1 is the cell with the value you wish to check if activecell.value=0 then 'Removes the row from the spreadsheet rows("1:1").select Selection.Delete Shift;=xlUp 'Deletes only the contents of the cells in the row rows("2:2").select Selection.ClearContents end if

It will depend upon the type of phone you are plugging in. If the phone you are using has it's own power supply you should be able to plug in as many as you want. If it's an older phone which used the power supplied by the phone company then 2 will be the limit. The easiest way to get it to all of the phones in your house is to disconnect the phone company from the interface box where they come in and hook your vonage voip box in its place. I use Sunrocket for my voip provider and only had a problem with my wireless and the cordless phones they gave me interfering with each other. Otherwise I have 4 individual phones hooked up without a problem and they say you can only use two also.

for /f "tokens=*" %i in ('mycommand.exe') do set myvar=%i

check the windows\inf directory and delete and oemxx.inf oemxx.pnf files there. (where xx is 00..99+) When I had a similar problem it was trying to use these files instead of the infs in my drivers directory.

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You can use DEVCON to change the HAL on the system. But you want it to be done before drivers are installed. Hence your problem with the TPM. Also even with the right HAL the TPM does not always install correctly during the sysprep mini-setup hardware detection. Unless they have come out with a newer driver since I build my image for the T43, r52, z60t, x41, m51 and m52. For the TPM I ended up using Devcon to install the driver from cmdlines.txt. Lucky for me all six of those machines have either ACPI uniprocessor hal or ACPI multiprocessor hals so I built it on the t43 and it deploys flawlessly on the rest. You can deploy the acpi uniprocessor to the t30 and change the hal iin the device manager if you can boot into windows. And I'm going to assume that you have updated the BIOS on the t30 to the most recentand reset it to defaults. I have found some systems that when the latest bios is installed they have a different hal installed when reinstalled. Another option is the Universal Image Utility from http://www.binaryresearch.net/UIU/About.htm

I'd lose the 500gb and get 4+ 150gb raptor drives and put them in a raid 5. Faster data access and better chance of data recovery if a drive fails. Case: well they are not gray, tan or black http://www.clearcomputercase.com Then you could use these raptors: http://www.wdraptorx.com/index.asp?bhcp=1

Did you delete the IBM service partition from the drive? If not then the boot sector is probably messed up. If you did delte it then try it with a non-UA cd and see what it does.

Sound like the permissions are hosed. Try this:

Anyone know where I can find a timeline of the first boot after deploying a syspreped image to a new machine? Specifically what executables run when and where we can run things from like cmdlines.txt, etc. Thanks in advance.

Not sure were the download of xp was on that site, but I wasn't really looking. The process they are describing is a method of creating a universal disk image of windows xp which could be deployed to multiple different hardware platforms. They are missing a few steps in their process to get it all working right but that is the general idea.

@Jaque - That will tell you what HAL was installed on an existing OS on the hard drive. But one has to be installed and it would have had to been the correct one to be of any help. So if all of those conditions are true then that would work beautifully. But if you're trying to restore an image to a machine you've just replaced the hard drive in it's not going to help much. I've been looking to do the same sort of thing, either from PE or DOS but as of yet have not found a way to do it.

I don't believe you can't use the drive:partition selectors to find the ghost image. This is intended for use when capturing a specific drive/partition.But you definitely need to indicate which partition you want from the image, even if it only has one partition. From Norton Ghost online help: try these: ghost -clone,mode=pload,src=1:2\restore.gho:1,dst=1:1 -sure -rb ghost -clone,mode=pload,src=d:\restore.gho:1,dst=1:1 -sure -rb another option wold be to ghost the boot partition to the second partition doing a partition to partition ghost and then deepfreeze just the second partition and restrict access to it from the os. then when you need to restore you would use ghost.exe -clone,mode=pcopy,src=1:2,dst=1:1 -sure -rbb

Get DEVCON from Microsoft, then you can disable any hardware you want from the command line or call it from a vbs script.

be sure you are searching hidden and system files. the normal.dot file is in a hidden folder in your profile.

Look at BartPE there is a plugin for ghost. just be sure to add your network adapters ad mass storage controllers. But you have to have Ghost32 the dos version won't work.

It depends upon what you want and are doing. If when you decided to reload you machine again with your image a year after creating it you are ok with having to install all of the updates then by all means create and image. Or if you are doing multiple machines the same way, then do one and image to the others. But if when you reload you are going to want all of the updates and updated software then an UACD is the way to go. It all depends upon personal preference. I do both depending upon the circumstances.

Check out robocopy form Microsoft. It has settings to do exactly what you are after.

Sounds like one of two things. The hal in your image not matching what should be on the machine. or The A30 had gone to sleep before you dropped the image to it. This has caused weird problems like this when I've ghosted in the past and was not paying attention.

What contoller is in the A30? Which HAL is used if you do a clean install from CD? What problem are you having? Need more details.

Get the fingerprint reader installer from IBM, its a Installshield installer, run it to uninstall the software and record it so you can run the uninstall silently. Check Norton, they have an uninstall app for NAV, can't remember the name, also not sure if it is scriptable or silent but it's worth a look.

It depends. Are the drives set as DO/D1 by the cable or by the jumpers? Or are the jumpers set incorrectly on a cable select cable? On cable select cables the drive at the end is D0. But if you have the jumpers set things get a little more confusing. If you have a cable select cable set both drives to cable select and see what happens. If its not a cables select cable put D0 on the end of the cable and D1 closet to Motherboard after setting the appropriate jumpers.

so you want a button in the Fee Schedule bax that puts the schedule into a table for that customer?

to save yourself some typing do the following for step 5 instead and follow the rest of the instructions: cd\windows\system32\config md temp copy software temp\software copy system temp\system copy sam temp\sam copy security temp\security copy default temp\default.bak delete system delete software delete sam delete security delete default copy c:\windows\repair\system system copy c:\windows\repair\software software copy c:\windows\repair\sam sam copy c:\windows\repair\security security copy c:\windows\repair\default default

Long time no see. You should pop in more often. Try this as a module to run from a button click: Sub Run_Excel() Dim appexcel As Object Set appexcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") 'Open Workbook, replace Devlist.xls with your filename appexcel.workbooks.Open "devlist.xls" appexcel.Visible = True 'Select Sheet1 appexcel.Sheets("Sheet1").Select 'repeat as needed ' Select Cell to input data into appexcel.Range("A2").Select ' Get data from table dlookup(Value field, table, criteria) appexcel.activecell.Value = DLookup("[ID]", "Sheet1", "[ID]=2") 'Set print area appexcel.ActiveSheet.PageSetup.PrintArea = "$A$1:$K$2" 'Print document appexcel.ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1, Collate:=True End Sub