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It could be shadows copies, pagefile, hibernate file.....How many free space is shown ? 45GB isn't much for a windows 2008 install if you installed many applications on C:.

This trick should work only on windows 7 (if i understood correctly). I would still prefer shadow copies as you can restore even an old version of the file and are a lot reliable if you configure them properly.

I saw that but the file installed was older than the one listed on the KB949425. I was upgrading this because the IPMI device was not working properly (it has the yellow exclamation point) but it didn't fix it anyway. It may be a hardware issue in this case.

I got around by installing a more recent hotfix : the kb2539648 but i'm still interested if someone has the answer.

This is a hotfix by request when i try to install it i get : The update does not apply to your system. Any idea why it isn't working properly ?

Perhaps your thinkpad is using usb1 mode (10Mb/s), you should be able to check this in the bios (if the option exists) .

Look at psshutdown from sysinternals. Something like this should work: psshutdown -accepteula \\%computername% -u adminaccount -p adminpassword -k -t 20 -f

I won't help on this as i don't use any windows firewall or web filter (i'm using a linux router with firewall). As for the antivirus, i would recommend Kaspersky or McAfee (both offer a good protection without too much bother in some of their products) but find false positives a lot of time. Most of the time, you need to know how to manually protect your computer without any tools. The problem with any computer protection is will/can you trust it to the end ? The answer is a big NO. In my experience, any protection will fail in both ways (not finding real positives and finding false positives) sooner or later. Even Virustotal (which is a great idea) might help sometimes but not always.

That's pretty amusing from ZoneAlarm (the worst firewall ever made) and you are not alone in this case but anyway do what you think is the right choice and not what i tell you or what tell you ZoneAlarm.

All you need to download is this (on the linked page): Previous Release version 6.11.1.404 - March 27, 2009 Install 32-bit version 6.11.1.404 [16.9 MB] Then configure the symbols path and next learn how to debug crash dump. But as you're not an it person and seems to lack the required basics, you should go with something different like Nirsoft bluescreen viewer.

Dumpchk.exe is stored in the support tools .CAB and most of the time it won't help. c:\>dumpchk.exe /? Usage: DumpCheck [y <sympath>] <Dumpfile> You should download the debugging tools.

You might try booting from a linux live CD and see if it is better. If you have another hard drive/partition, you could also try a clean windows install.

Or check if the box "run with highest privilege" is checked.

It can also rise when the new files are too much newer. When you try to repair, you have to provide the files from the same service pack level and if possible hotfixes.

The second is for the microSD card reader. The files should be in the first and you need at least windows media player 10 to get it working on XP. Did you read the manual ?

Admin shares are disabled on XP home because they were used by many professional tools to deploy packages, remote control computer, etc... As MS wanted to make a "home edition" that would only be used at home, they removed everything that could have been used in big businesses. So, in MS way of thinking, the home user can't have many computers and manage them remotely with simple commands (because an home user don't really need anything). Of course they were completely wrong and so they created a few year later Windows home server. The first version was based on windows 2003 SP2(as presented there).

Perhaps, this wil help you.

For the simple fact that MS disabled the administrative shares (in windows XP Home) used by most tools. The only way to fix this behavior is a little complex and very insecure. Of course, you could also install a telnet/ssh server service on the xp home (to be able to launch the shutdown after connecting to the service) but there is not a big difference between this and your logmein approach.

Unless you disabled admin$ share on the remote computer, you won't connect to it unless you're using an admin account. Try the following: net use * /d /y psshutdown \\basement -k -u basement\administrator -p password with administrator the administrator account of "basement" computer (or any administrator account) and password the associated password. If this stil doesn't work then it is by design as Microsoft is explaining it there. Edit: I guess it won't work with xp home as the admin shares are disabled by default. There is a very unsecure solution.

Then the only thing you should do is replacing this drive or trying to repair it (but i won't be of any help if you try to repair the hard drive).

Did you checked if your bios/motherboard is allowing it ?

The access denied is most likely because you are not authenticated as an administrator of the remote computer. You should try psshutdown as you can pass the needed user login/password.

I'd try to test the hard drive with seatools dos iso version.

It's there: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2 Settings The value to change the size (at least when the taskbar at the bottom of the screen) in this binary value is the 14th byte in hexadecimal but you need to close/kill explorer before changing it and restart it after.

My experience with HP, DELL and IBM : - HP blade center works fine and Vmware provide a special esxi for better hp support. No big problems but doesn't have the best hardware support. - Dell stand alone servers work fine with vmware and i didn't managed to see their blade solutions in a virtual environment. They have the best hardware support. - IBM stand alone server and blade center works so so. Many PSOD (Purple screen of death) implying a lot of firmwares upgrades. Worst hardware support. Even finding something on the IBM support website might be a challenge. I saw a Sun blade center but i didn't managed it so i can't answer about the reliability or the hardware support. I can just say that you'll need an enormous power to power a SUN blade center about 10 times an HP one and it also weight ten times or more. I don't remember the exacte price but i do remember you could buy ten hp blade center for one Sun.