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If the devices and server are on the same physical network (before the router) then there might be network vlan (on the switches or routers) that you need to also check. Also you should check the windows 2008 firewall settings. If the devices are not on the same physical network (separated by router(s)) then you should check if the routes are set properly on the router(s).

As i understood the MS KB, you have to have the Hotfix and re-apply the gpo ( perhaps by disabling it on this server and re-enabling it after checking it doesn't apply anymore) which is setting those specific rights.

Is the Windows 2008 R2 the Service Pack 1 installed ? If yes, it is already included in it (see the xls spreadsheet in the following link).

If the hotfix doesn't install it could be that you didn't select the right architecture. Are you sure you downloaded the X64 one ?

That looks pretty normal to me. But replacing the thermal paste will of course reduce the temp of both core (if it is older than 6 month). Also if you really want to manually control the speed of the fans you should install a rheobus. But you could check your bios settings as sometimes there are settings there to modify the power regulation of fans.

At first, I would say it might be suffix related or proxy related. When the problem happen on the client, what is the output of "nslookup fqdn" on the client and on the server ? Did you checked the dns server logs or tried to enable dns server logging ?

But at least for windows XP: Dir /s /a- Works. Edit: Even dir /s /a works on XP.

If you want : file1: monitor oid memInUseCapacity.0 601 0x00300300 300 absolute > 95 '#3-Low Memory' '' to become file2: monitor oid memInUseCapacity.0 601 0x00300300 300 absolute > 95 '#3-Low Memory. [MID_XXXXX]' '' You could use the mingw port of sed from the unix tools and do the following: type file1 | sed "s/'/. [MID_XXXXX]'/2" >file2

Maybe this anandtech review will help you to choose. For a strict OS usage, you shouldn't see any real world difference between Samsung 830, Crucial M4, Intel 520, Kingston HyperX 3K, or OCZ Vertex 4 as read/write data should be compressible but random and most of it 4k sized. Any ssd with more than 200MB/s 4k random write (with random data) will be very fast. If you seek the fastest ssd, there is already a website keeping track of them (but the speed given are those of the manufacturers) and you'll need a PCI express solution then.

Ok but if you want to try (when you're ready after the backups are done), you'll have to download system rescue cd from this link (the link to download the file is "sourceforge download"). Then you'll have to burn the iso to a CD (as an iso not as a file). If you need help for this part, you'll just need to tell us which CD burning software your daughter is using.

Perhaps checking with a live linux CD would be a good start to check if there is an hardware problem or a software problem. You could try for example an ubuntu or my favorite System rescue CD. Under linux you can launch a shutdown (from any terminal/console) with: shutdown -h now If it works properly then it shouldn't be hardware related.

Not clear somewhat! How to use? Process monitor will help you monitor what is enumerated/read/written when monitoring some action then you'll have to analyze the output of process monitor to find what need to be done or changed to solve 1) and 3). Of course, this is a lot of work but i don't think anyone here will do it for you.

Does your C# self elevate before try to activate ? If not, check this example.

Help yourself with 1) and 3) with process monitor.

Perhaps you could begin by posting details like: - on which OS/Service Pack/language (like windows XP SP1 English) you saw this happened ? - where does this setup come from what application it should install and for which OS ?

I would prefer to disabling monitoring of drives using vbs as explained there as disabling system restore will also delete restore points because the "system volume information" folder might contain others files that you might not want to delete (like the indexing catalog). set SRP = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:SystemRestore") eSRP = SRP.disable("C:\") Also when i used this on the C: drive, it disabled monitoring on all drives so it might not be need to loop for all drives.

Killing the process one time should be enough even if it takes a long time so no need to loop on the taskkill step. You need to first launch taskkill in another process using something like "start /high /separate". Then you need to loop on tasklist until the process doesn't exist anymore: :loop rem ping -n 5 localhost tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq process.exe" |findstr /i process.exe if %errorlevel% eq 0 goto loop else goto :next :next This code will work but it will also loop too fast and increase the load of the computer so i added a sleep (ping -n ) you should uncomment.

With IcemanND solution, you'll also need autologon enabled and use sysinternals autologon. There are other ways to do this: - creating a service that will run your script with sc and srvany.exe (from the 2003 Reskit) or using nssm and be removed after. - creating a scheduled task which will run a each computer startup until you don't need it anymore.

To remove the actual plugin for IE is easy: rename/remove the file "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll" (you might need to replace the path if you're using a different version). To only disable java, you can follow this tutorial. Then the test page won't see that you have java installed. The page i linked only contain an image of the test page you linked so it won't change what ever the java version you're using or even if it isn't installed. But if you want to disable java in IE usage by your users, you'll need to modify ntfs rights on both the file "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll" (setting deny read to users should be enough and this way you won't need to rename/remove it) and you'll also need to set the reg entry to be read-only by users (and set to 0 as explained in the tutorial).

I found this site with a lot of data and stats. In 2011 McAfee got the award of the lowest false positive detected and this is very strange. But it doesn't have the size of virus defs. I looked the system requirement of many of them and for most of them the requirement is in the real the bare minimum. Symantec endpoint virus defs take about 3GB (with the default number of virus defs: 3) and symantec say it only require 1GB. Trend officescan virus defs take 700MB (still with 3 virus defs) and Trend say it only require 350MB. McAfee Viruscan virus defs take 400MB (but with 2 virus defs) and McAfee say it only require 500MB. Kaspersky virus defs take about 800MB (but with 2 virus defs) and Kasperky say it only require 500MB. As i work everyday with different AV in production environments, i get to see many scenarii where each AV behave differently. For example, sometimes symantec antivirus service will take 100% cpu for hours (or until we restart its service) just because it isn't able to update properly its virus defs. This problem appear to have been corrected with symantec endpoint.

JFYI (and for a seemingly needed quick laugh ): page__view__findpost__p__951837 I think there are NO limits to "worse" , but quite frankly, I would be puzzled by a product that not only detects an "own" app as a virus, but additionally affirms that it has deleted it while it hasn't..... jaclaz Of course McAfee is sometimes totally off but i've seen almost all other antivirus doing similar things or worse: - Kaspersky is indexing files and stores its index in the file %windir%\system32\drivers\fidbox.dat and you can't change its location. Just google fidbox.dat to see the side effects. - F-secure is well known for its memory leaks. - Symantec AV or Endpoint is most likely one of the worst with it virus definitions using as much space as %systemdrive% can handle and then simply stoping working. Also its default settings are the worst. - Sophos doesn't offer a good protection. It let some viruses bypass its protection even when it detect them (conficker for example). - TrendMicro often get problem updating and older version might be detected as virus by the newer one's. But all in all it is not that bad. - AVG is a little better than sophos but it let conficker spread on some computers. For the others, i didn't had the opportunity to see them working in the real world so i can't tell. Also, there are two important things that a good antivirus should be able (at least in my opinion): - Properly detecting new viruses (most antivirus can do that properly). And it includes having a good virus definitions update scheme (that's were some are behind). - Being able to remove viruses (quarantine or delete depending on your settings). And there, the gap between them might be huge. Most of the time, end users still need to report strange behavior because their AV didn't properly do its job. For example, i'm pretty sure that almost all AV out there wouldn't be able to stop conficker (of course with some specials conditions like having a weak administrator password) as conficker has dictionnary attacks on admin$ shares.

I downloaded English XP SP3 and the false positive was from this. And my runing Os is in French.

Did you tried unchecking the boxes of the java runtime environnment in java component in the control panel as explained there ?

I did it and got the same false positive for the downloaded svchost from XP SP3. I did try also with the one from my running OS and this one didn't get the false positive but it is because it is in another language.

Also the statement about linux not supporting x-fi card is false: http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html. Many x-fi cards are listed there but perhaps yours isn't there.