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do you have any network drives in my computer? if so disconnect them and try it again

no he means the windows messenger service. try going to run and typing "services.msc" and then find "messenger" right click it and disable it. then it will stop thanks

i have xp, but im just curious as to what it looks like on 95/98 or even 2000 please post a screenshot

thanks for that i guess it checks if a drives exists and if so creates a txt file of its contents and im not lazy i just want to see what other people currently have automated on their systems, honest! Also gunsmoking man those are good scripts too!, guess im gonna have to start learning vbs scripting

try a different network card or cable and see if the problem persists

since i dont have 98se please please post a screenshot, i really wanna see this thanks

so no one else has any batch files running that they find useful or that others might find useful? come on! inspire me!!! thanks

the laptop might need the "wireless zero configuration" service, thats all i can think of from the top of my head

lol!, iv heard of norton ghost and you have misunderstood me.. all my stuff is backed up and archived on DVD's already the point of the txt files is so that if a drive failed then i knew what was on it, so i can then rebuild it exactly as it was (using the DVD's)

ghost?

i was wondering what automated tasks/batch files/scripts do you guys have running on your computers? i have the following running daily: 1) a script for each HDD i have that exports the contents to a txt file 2) a script that copys the txt file to every other drive (this is so i know what was on the drive should one of them ever fail) 3) a script that copies the my pictures folder from another computer (to back them up) 4) a logon script that authenticates me with the other computer (so i can access files without authentication) 5) a logon script that adds the MAC address of the other computer to the arp cache (so it doesnt have to bother broadcasting to find it out) im also going to make a script that defrags a drive silently (a different hdd each day of the week in my case) also i was thinking about a desktop cleanup script that just copies the junk from my desktop to a folder somewhere, therefore forcing me to clean it up anyone have any input on this? thanks

Actually, the page file is not cleared at every reboot unless you tell Windows to do so using secpol.msc (Local Security Policy) via the Local Polices > Security Options > Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile setting.The only "danger" there could be is that the page file could become fragmented when it's recreated. This can have an adverse effect on disk performance. A good disk defrag utility (not the built in one) can take care of this though. thanks for that, never knew it i just assumed it was cleared just like ram

at command prompt type "ver" (without quotes) thanks EDIT: hmm that doesnt display home pro or corp, thats stupid! lol

you need an RIS server to install xp in this way im sure of it

net stop "task scheduler" does the job fine and then net start to restart it

sorry all, iv got it it was so simple lol - just disable the task scheduler service and re-enable it when im done lol thanks

hi all, i have a load of scheduled tasks on my pc and if im running a virtual pc (or 2 or even 3) i dont really want my scheduled tasks to kick in, in the middle of it all. so does anyone know if it possible to make a script that i can run which will temporarily disable scheduled tasks? and then afterwards i could run a script to re-enable scheduled tasks? if anyone could help that would be great thank you

your specs wont help a great deal if your startup entires are very cluttered and there are a lot of them. click on run and type msconfig and then click on the startup tab and look through that list and untick anything that you feel is uneccessary, also run Ccleaner on your pc to clean it up this should help it

altering the page file shouldnt have any adverse effect since it acts just like ram (or virtual ram if you will) and will be cleared (along with any entries in the index/TOC of the hdd) once you reboot your pc. so as far as i can see it shouldnt have any effect, unless anyone else can inform me otherwise? thanks

therefore the drivers for the adaptec card are not digitally signed which is why you get an error

pressing f6 installs any third party drivers for RAID etc so that windows can "see" all your drives during installation, so that your reason, it is a driver that is unsigned by Microsoft, therefore you get an error. so unless the third party company actually have microsoft digitally sign this diver you will alway receive this message. or at least that is my understanding and interpretation of it hope this helps

if you cannot see the Local Area Connection in network places then i would first suggest checking device manager and being 100% sure that the network card is installed correctly. if it is then i would run services.msc and start all of the services on the machine, that way you will eliminate services as a factor. if you start them all and restart your machine and you can see the Local Area Connection then it was definatly an error relating to services. then i would simply one by one turn off the services you dont need to eliminate uneccessary overhead, and if your unsure ask here, somebody will gladly help you thank you

if your talking about this in an environment without a server and with a single user account on each machine that is customizable but only for the period the user is logged on, then do the following.... logon as the local administrator to the machine you setup and locate the other users profile in this profile you will find a HIDDEN file (so make sure they are visible first) called NTUSER.dat, all you have to do is rename this to NTUSER.man and this will prevent any changes made to this profile from being retained once the user logs off now you can go ahead and ghost those 10 pc's!! hope this helps Thanks

cool! glad you got it sorted

sorry all, iv got it make a .vbs script like this: CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "c:\map drives.bat",0 and call the .bat file map drives.bat easy!!