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Is the trap a blue screen or black and white? From my experience ive only seen 2 causes of traps, which are very rare: 1) Hardware error 2) NTLDR error Admiral ACKBAR might know what a trap is -gosh

Enabling the Guest account and allowing guest access over a network are 2 different things. You should never enable the guest account, although sometimes you might have to for downlevel clients (win9x). Make sure you're using the same username and password on both computers. Clear out control keymgr.dll. Use secpol.msc to make sure your account has access rights to your account and it's not denied. Make sure any firewalls are temp disabled. -gosh

Inf's don't require anything special to use cpl's. You could copy the cpl to system32 but you probably would want to add the correct registry entries. Search support.microsoft.com, it has articles that give the exact registry keys. Some microsoft cpl's can be registered using regsvr32 -gosh

The best option might be to use the user state migration tool. This is scriptable and you can use it to export then import your user settings. There are other options but the other options might cause data loss. -gosh

Another way would be to look for the CSDVersion number from the hivexxx.inf file. -gosh

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Sorry if this has been posted before. Go to http://www.ryano.net/iraq/ and type in something and click preview. Too funny. -gosh

There's many options such as the billboard file - winntbbu.dll. -gosh

You can use server 2003's reskit tool sleep.exe to make a batch file pause for a certain amount of time to make sure it runs last. I use runonceex and it always runs my cleanup file last. -gosh

Oh god, autopatcher. It's one of those programs for people that read those "windows for dummies" books. If you don't have a clue about windows then use it. If you care what you are doing then learn how to properly make an unattended cd - that's the whole point of this site. -gosh

It won't run for me. I did a clean install yesterday so i dont know whats wrong.

xp and server 2003 are the same for unattended. For specific server 2003 info see my site - gosh.msfnhosting.com/server2003.htm -gosh

That reghack is NOT supported by microsoft. Just because an article exists doesn't mean microsoft will help you if things go wrong. If you use that reghack and your system becomes unbootable and you call microsoft support, they'll only tell you to reinstall windows or to do a clean install. And the article doesn't say it only works for drive c, you can use the article for any drive letter. Notice the article uses the terms boot partition and system partition. The BOOT partition will have the OS files such as ntoskrnl.exe, the SYSTEM partition will have the loader files, such as boot.ini and ntldr. It's very possible to have drive F be your boot partition and drive E be your system partition. Windows 2000 will often put the loader files (boot.ini, ntldr) on the same partition you install to. No matter what the case is, the registry hack CAN make your system unbootable, even if you follow the article step by step. -gosh

Past experience tells me that data is stored in the jpeg's header? I think it is, i know a mp3 stores stuff like lyrics in the mp3 files header. Either way a jpg is a binary file so i don't think you could search by content. I would recommend enabling the indexing service. You could also edit the columns explorer shows, which would let you sort by the pictures size, things like that. But otherwise i don't think what you want is possible. -gosh

You shouldn't modify the boot partition. The registry hack mentioned is 100% unsupported by microsoft and if the registry hack doesn't work you're going to need to reinstall windows. From experience i would say the registry hack only works about 50% of the time. But it's your computer so do what you want. -gosh

SP2 should come out in july or august and as far as i know itll have movie maker 2 and media player 9 already included. Can you wait for sp2? There should be some microsoft alias you can email, they would know if a localized version exists for that. -gosh

It would be nice if we could make images and just sell them to people that don't want to put effort into learning. I recommend searching the forum. It'll be a lot quicker than waiting for someone to guide you through the process. -gosh

ref.chm should help you out. -gosh

go into recovery console and extract the file mentioned in that kb article from the xp cd, i believe the file is dpcdll.dll or licdll.dll. in rec con just type expand -r e:\i386\dpcdll.dl_ c:\windows\system32 or copy the file. Copying files from rec con will automatically extract them. If you dont have a xp cd download the bootdisks go to google and search on obtaining xp boot disks, you'll find the link i think its 311994 or something. Then boot from the boot disks and copy the file. -gosh

jview.exe is made by microsoft, not sun. It's not on the server 2003 cd. The only way it could have gotten on your system is if you installed a patch or something that put it there. -gosh

Using different BOOT folders you can use different unattend files, or not use an answer file at all. -gosh

srchui.dll is registered by syssetup.inf at the 13 min mark. Therefore you could probably unregister it at or after this point, or you could just simply delete the file from the source files. -gosh

MSTest posted how to remove the billboards, use the search feature to find this topic. -gosh

Just use %programfiles% -gosh

If you have win2k server and upgrade to server 2003 itll have java. -gosh