jftuga

echo %CD% | mawk -F\\ "{print $NF}" > cwd.tmp set /p CWD=<cwd.tmp del cwd.tmp echo %CWD% http://www.klabaster.com/freeware.htm#mawk (if you don't mind using an external program) Also, run: call /? This might help you, if you can figure out a way to use the special %~ variables. -John

I am looking for a prebuilt ASP script that can be used as a 'submit' form, that will email the results of a form filled out through a web browser. Any suggestions? Are there any free ones? -John

nbtstat will tell you the MAC address, given an IP, even if the machine is on a different VLAN. On your file server, right click My Computer, Click Manage, Shared Folders, Sessions. You should be able to map a IP address to a User name. Hopefully, you will know where the user's office is. :-) If not, you can start looking for the MAC address in all of you switches and then follow that port to the patch panel in your wiring closet. This port should connect to the office in question. -John

As far as I know, the Win XP and 2003 kernels do not support any kind method of transparent proxing. The closet thing you will get to transparent is using a group policy in a AD environment to push out proxy settings. MS has a proxy server, ISA 2004 server. I use Squid under XP (not transparently) and it works great. The best version for windows is here... http://www.acmeconsulting.it/SquidNT/ It is a native port. If you ever figure out a transparent method under Windows, I love to hear about it.

I wrote a program to do just this a long time ago. It uses python, from www.python.org. http://www.fcs.uga.edu/~john/blog/scripts/...e_struct.py.txt I just tested it and it still works, too. -John

FWIW, BitDefender did very good on the November 2006 av-comparitives.org tests. The have a special going on now, 2 systems 2 years, $40. -John

ISA 2004 is the current version & tons better than the 2000 version. ISA 2006 is in beta. -John

Try psservice.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern.../psservice.mspx You will want to use the setconfig option. -John

I hear that running Aero under Vista requires a fair amount of video processing power. So if you think that you will be running Vista some time in the future, you might want to consider this. I sure some one who is now running Vista could elaborate more on this. -John

Download BootIt NG http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html Burn image to a CD-ROM and boot from it. When it starts up and asks you if you want to install, choose Cancel. At the next menu, choose Partition Work. From here, you can now non-destructively repartition your disk. -John

When I built my house 10 years ago, I also had a dedicated circuit for my compter equipment. This room is now the guest bedroom, because the other guest bedroom became my daughter's bedroom three years ago. I guess I can make it my office again in about 17 years. -John

There is a version of Vim for Windows called Gvim. REs work great inside of vVm. Version 7 has tabbed-windows and spell checking. Vim has a steep learning curve, however. http://www.vim.org/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/161 -John

It can be done. Google for: convert fat32 to ntfs convert ntfs to fat32 Good luck, -John

It can be done. Google for ntfs dos ntfs dos driver ntfs dos boot disk etc. -John

Freecell must run really fast on that baby! :-) -John

If you use rar.exe, the command-line version, you can use the -v switch to choose the size of a single file volume. I use -v4505600, which is about the size of a DVD. When rar goes past one file, the archive names change to archive.part1.rar, archive.part2.rar, archive.part3.rar, etc. -John

Although the MS KB article does not explicitly list it, I assume this works with Win 2003, too. Does anyone know for sure?Thanks, -John

PD8 has a feature called 'AutoPilot Schedule' and is similar to Scheduled Tasks. Now, we only run PD8 on our servers which run 24/7 so we just schedule a defrag on the weekends and twice during week nights. I guess this is not practical for desktop systems, however. -John

This would be fine with me. However, I would assume that IE7 would be apart of the rollup.

Thanks. First half of '08 seems like a long ways off. -John

Does anyone know what the latest ETA for SP3 is? I know it can change, but I am just interested in knowing a very general time frame. Thanks, -John

What about: rd /s/q "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files" On my system, it deletes everything but Content.IE5\index.dat -John

LLXX, You should take a look at http://www.opendns.org for your DNS servers. -John

Here are some options: cwRsync - http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/ xxcopy - http://www.xxcopy.com/ robocopy - Win 2003 Resource Kit - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en I hope this helps, -John

Tarun, Wonderful post, thank you for such a nice & detailed response. I have a few questions. I had never heard of Peperfix. After doing some research, it now looks a bit outdated and unsupported. Are you still detecting any malware with it? Wouldn't Adaware and/or Spybot find the same malware during their scans? I am surprised to hear that you run Adaware & Spybot concurrently. My intuition leads me to believe that this could not be that much faster than running them sequentially. Am I wronng? Also, if both programs find the same piece of malware, which program do you delete it with first, Adaware or Spybot? Now that that piece of malware is gone, what happens to the 2nd program when it is in it's delete phase? Thanks, -John