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Psinfo will tell you OS version and if it is standard or advanced server version. I just tried it (remotely) on Win 2K Standard & Advanced servers and on 2003 servers. If differentiated all of them with no problems, http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsInfo.html -John

Actually, those 250 PCs are split among several VLANs, so there is at most ~100 PCs per broadcast domain. -John

Our network has 3 Active Directory DCs all running Windows 2000 Server. One of them runs the DHCP service and serves out IP addresses to 250 PCs. We do NOT have a cluster. A couple of weeks ago this server hung and wasn't restarted until the IT staff got to work the next morning at 8:00. However, there are some people who get to work at 7:30 and they could not get an IP address and therefore not log onto the network. I know you can't really set up a "backup" DHCP server as the DHCP client (Windows XP and 2000 in this case) will send out a broadcast and use the IP address in the first valid DHCP reply that it receives. My question is how can I set up a (redundant, backup, failover, secondary, stand-by, etc.) DHCP service on one of my other two DCs? Is this possible? Will having two servers send out IP addresses from identical ranges cause problems or conflicts? One thing just occurred to me as I was typing in this message. If this it not possible, could I have one server use a range of 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.127 and the other server use a range of 10.0.0.128 - 10.0.0.254? I would configure them both to use the same netmask and broadcast addresses. Thanks, -John

Try one of these 2 programs: FreeUndelete http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/ Restoration http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html Good Luck! -John

Wow. This looks like a really good, complete program. I don't really have any need for encryption, however. On the bottom of the "Security" web page, he says this: There may well be bugs in my implementation though - that is why it's open source, so you and our peers may review it and keep it safe. This should not be taken as a low level of confidence in my code - anyone who tells you their code is flawless is either inexperienced or lying. -John

OK, I can see your point of view. In our case we were running Symantec AV 10.0 which caused logging off to take close to 3 minutes. Our users were less than happy. We were able to install uphclean via msi & group policy. It was truly awesome. Once installed, log offs were instant. SAV 10.0.1 fixed the slow log off problems. -John

You may be able to get Windows down to only 2 running processes... See this article: "Running Windows with No Services" http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005_07_01_archive.html Let us know if you try this and how well it goes. -John

I think this is one of your problems. Symantec's website recommends turning off System Restore before trying to clean a virus because it will be automatically restored once deleted. from their website... 1. To disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP) If you are running Windows Me or Windows XP, we recommend that you temporarily turn off System Restore. Windows Me/XP uses this feature, which is enabled by default, to restore the files on your computer in case they become damaged. If a virus, worm, or Trojan infects a computer, System Restore may back up the virus, worm, or Trojan on the computer. Windows prevents outside programs, including antivirus programs, from modifying System Restore. Therefore, antivirus programs or tools cannot remove threats in the System Restore folder. As a result, System Restore has the potential of restoring an infected file on your computer, even after you have cleaned the infected files from all the other locations. Also, a virus scan may detect a threat in the System Restore folder even though you have removed the threat. Disabling or Enabling System Restore on Windows XP -John

I agree! This service really makes logoffs very fast. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en -John

Did you install Exchange 2003 SP2? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...03/default.mspx One thing the service pack does is increase the max size of your message store from 16GB to 75GB. -John

Awesome! I can't wait to try out the beta. -John

try running each command step-by-step: tasklist tasklist | gawk ... tasklist | gawk ... | sort if you run it from the command-line, you will need to change %%05d to just %05d After tasklist | gawk ... | sort, you should get a list of process IDs - 1 per line. You can run the empty.exe with one of these PIDs to see if it reduces memory. You may need SP2, but I am not sure. -John

I just figured out how to get rid of having to use egrep.exe. Change the batch file to read like this: tasklist | gawk "tolower($1) !~ /csrss|smss|winlogon|lsass/ && $2 > 10 && $2 ~ /[0-9]/ {printf( \"%%05d\n\",$2)}" | sort | xargs -n1 empty I changed the link in the first post to include this modification. -John

I wrote a batch file to reduce memory usage on all running programs. This is done with empty.exe from the Win 2003 resource kit. This program calls APIs that frees the working set memory pages of running processes. I have only run it on XP for a few months and it seems very stable. Some programs will eventually allocate more memory, but there are many background type programs that do not. For some reason the message board will not allow me to upload the file (something about total filespace is greater that per post limit). You can download it here: http://www.fcs.uga.edu/~john/ReduceMemory_12.zip I would appreciate any feedback. -John

I would love to be a beta tester. Also, I am interested in having MicrowinX have Active Directory connectivity. Have you tested this? If not, this is something that I could test and help implement. This project seems like it would also be great for "kiosk" type systems. -John

Try delen -- del enhanced. It should do the trick. http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/delenxrd/ -John

This is interesting. The only way I ever knew how to do this was similar to the at command. I used the same comcept -- creating a Scheduled Task that used the System Account. -John

By "CD-ROM" drivers, do you mean the mscdex program? -John

What would you do if you need to make a boot CD that contains more than 2.88 MB? Say around 10-15 MB. How would you do that? -John

UltraVNC supports encryption via a plugin. Remote Desktop is encrypted by default. I don't know about the others. -John

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Thanks! I can always keep begging^H^H^H^H^H^H^H reminding you. :-) -John

If possible, I would like to become a beta tester for 2.5 when you finish it in Jan/Feb. -John

Thanks, -John

I am looking for something like a standalone RyanVM. I am trying to find a prebuilt package of all the post SP2 patches all bundled up into a .exe file that I can just run from CD. Does such a beast exist? Thanks, -John