nitroshift

How do you know? What application told you that? The very same application should take care of the removal too IF not, try an online virus scanner or give avast a spin.

I had a look at your signature... Don't take it personally, but how on earth can you work with a 15" monitor?

I'm going to fourth crahak's suggestion. Even if you are going forward with Vista and that adds a few bucks to the total spent, you know what went inside your pc and those parts are way better than what OEM's offer nowadays.

Same as jcarle, WD`s...

How much RAM do you have and what kind of hard-disk? Also, what graphics card?

cluberti, it worked like a charm. Thank you! Mounted NT4.0 image in vmware, upgraded to w2k and spilled the AD onto the real w2k machine using ADMT v2.0. Do you need an old NT4.0 machine?

Been running Vista since the 4000 builds and noticed the roadmap... It became my main OS for quite a while now and after SP1 my rig is flying, so Vista gets my vote

Thanks for your reply I used Acronis to image the machine. I am thinking why didn't virtual machines spring in my mind before. Good idea! Thanks again!!!!!

Update: Imaged NT4.0 machine but can't upgrade to w2k due to lack of space (~500MB left on the partition) and it's on a mirror RAID set... Cluberti, could you think of an alternative way? This is really driving me crazy...

Thanks cluberti, that was the answer I was looking for. I will start on it this week-end when I can take the machines out of production and come back with the results.

I'd rather skip reading cr/-\p like this... Please, PLEASE, if you ain't got some constructive information, refrain from posting...

You will have to keep in mind the cost of the equipment too, which is (still) prohibitive for a home user...

What is the filename? And extension too.

Since the recovery partition is intact, you will be able to start a recovery from it by selecting the appropriate entry in the BIOS. Good luck by the way.

Searched the net and microsoft's KB's but couldn't find an authoritative explanation... So I turned to you guys here: Setup: PDC running NT4.0 SP6 (no AD) DHCP server running w2k advanced server Both servers are in the same domain. Problem: I am trying to move the user database (including passwords, logon .bat files) from NT (which will be removed from the setup after the transfer) onto w2k AD and keep the domain name intact. I have found and tried ADMT 2.0 (since v.3 works only on w2k3) but it simply doesn't work for me, the w2k server doesn't see the NT or says that the domains are the same when trying to import or that no AD has been found on NT (obviously, since NT doesn't have one...). Could someone lend a hand, please? This is really making me pull my hair (whatever's left of it...). Thanks in advance. nitro

For best performance get the SAME ram for all 3GB.

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Holy Molly!!!! Now THAT's a thread resurrection!!!!!

Just a note: your current motherboard is SLI-enabled, not CrossFire, thus your graphics cards won't run in SLI. To achieve that you either go for SLI with 2 nVIDIA cards or chose another motherboard that supports CrossFire and stay with 2 ATI graphics cards. And get another 2 x 512 MB of RAM to keep dual channel intact

Are you gonna game on a server?

What about clicking on every red flasing button on the internet that requires administrative privileges to install malware? I seriously take security and time into account, not to mention the downtime to reinstall the server back-ups that I make daily... For workstations a much more simple method is to have a Ghost or Acronis image But hey, I manage a 15k computer farm spread all over the country EDIT: I really don't want to start a dispute or flaming, I'm just trying to get my point across

Did you take in consideration the legal side of it too? What programs the users install on their pc's? What impact that has on the domain / LAN / traffic? And yes, leaving users with administrator privileges DOES make the set-up less secure. And I don't mean only the network...

Let's keep desktop OS`es apart from Server OS`es... XP and Vista are for desktops whereas 2k3 and 2k8 are meant for server use.

I would NOT recommend anything like that seeing that you will be restricted down to simple user privileges. Better off talk to your network administrator and ask him to elevate your privileges. Just to keep your a$$ outta trouble. For example, if you worked in the company I manage the network of and caught you running other operating system than the one I installed will get you out the door in 2 minutes with no return. Simple as that.

You could make use of NTFS security policies