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It just depends on how secure you want it to be: if you use a batch to exe converter, most of them will only unpack the batch in a temporary folder and run it from there and then the protection will be very light.

First, you should prepare a secondary 2008 DC (for redundancy) then change the dns (ad should also RO as you most likely installed a RODC) to r/w on the 2008, then move all the role to the 2008 (or the added 2008 dc), then shutdown the 2003 to test (you might realize at this you'll need to change things on clients computer if they were using the ip of the 2003 as dns or other things) then if no effect on clients and administration (adding computer/changing password/etc..) tasks, you should be able to demote the 2003 after restarting it.

The cmd is most likely the problem: Do you have a folder "AdobePhotoshopElements8" inside the folder "C:\Applications\AdobePhotoshopElements8" ? Also you should just do : cd /d "C:\Applications\AdobePhotoshopElements8" or for more flexibility cd /d %~dp0 in your batch.

If you used those drive before with another raid controller, it is likely that the other raid controller let some kind of "lock" as they were part of an array. If that's the case, you need to delete the array with old controller so it will remove the "lock". I had this problem with samsung F1 1TB drives.

Many 2TB WD hard drive use 4k sectors: example. As for the OP problem transfering files from dvd to hdd, i'd check the pio mode of the dvd and see if it change something.

What happens when you run chkdsk ? Is it a bare win XP 64 ? No SP2 installed ? What does ntfsinfo reports on the drive ? And indeed it shouldn't matter for the os as this raid controller is a full hardware based raid controller.

Before trying to change permissions, you have to be owner of all the files. Use takeown for this purpose.

If you don't care about the data stored on the faulty hard drive, just replace it (using the warranty or not). The freezer thing should not be done unless you don't care anymore, that one of the last thing to try and usually doesn't give any result (tried twice, only worked with an old 1GB drive and did not work on a recent drive). Even if Jaclaz with its "magic" get it working, i would not put any data there after. So you'll need to buy a new hard drive or get this one replaced (under warranty if available and forget about the data stored there). Also when bios still detect the drive, never try anything other than software tools to recover data. Anything else would most likely damage the drive.

Yes it would be very wise to filter at list from source ips and block when not needed. Although MS say it use a dictionary attack on weak passwords, it seems it was able to spread on other system as well. It seems almost every years (or so) a real bad worm spread in august (the only exception is conficker).

i don't see why copying data to external hard drive should wear it faster than letting it powered on the same amount of time. But other than that, i am perhaps missing some point about the wear level of hard drive internals.

As i see it from your pictures, audio is compatible for sure. As for 1394, the description on the case picture is just color that doesn't help much (but it should be also compatible). Anyway CoolerMaster usually do compatible stuff and wouldn't try to force you buy new connectors. If you want to be extra sure, you can ask both coolermaster support and your motherboard manufacturer support. This way, you'll be safe.

I wasn't infected nor seen any case of infection yet but everyone should be extra-careful as this new worm could spread using hole in rdp. Here is the thread at MS Technet. Description of this worm is there. At this time most antivirus doesn't even detect it (so automatic removal isn't an option).

You're worrying about connectors if i understood correctly. From the pictures it is compatible for audio (ac97 connector), usb and 1394 connector but you only have one front usb and the front panel connector isn't there on the case picture.

With Imagemagick: Pathtoimagemagickbinaries\mogrify.exe -resize 32x32 -path C:\thumbs C:\images\*.png Other options of imagemagick that you don't need (you'll loose transparency) to make thumbnails.

Imagemagick is definitely a good choice if you want to script image manipulation.

There, i disagree with CoffeeFiend and would buy an i7 with 6 cores as two more cores would make a difference when encoding. Of course the 1366 sockets are older and will be obsolete sooner but if you need raw power the most recent i7 aren't enough compared to those. If you're planning to do other things while encoding you'll see a huge difference (you'll get 12 virtual cores with hyperthreading enabled instead of 8 ).

I7 will reduce by about 20% to 50% your encoding jobs depending on which i7 you get. See Tomshardware benchmarks there.

No problem for me either but as i am using a hosts file to block many unwanted things (ads mostly) perhaps that's the reason why.

Then there are solutions: if the mkv is x264 based, he can try core avc (not free) one of the codec using the less cpu power or mediaplayer HC. Also nobody does miracle, if its cpu is not enough to playback x264, he could decode it using a lossless codec (like huffyuv or mjpeg...) which would use less processor time but would take a lot of space on the drive and then the bottleneck might become the drive. At one point, he'll need to buy new hardware to improve playback quality. If you still want to convert the mkv to divx and thus lowering its quality (not its playback quality), you'll to reduce its size i you had 720p then i would go for at max a res at 480p. There are all in one tools that might do this sometime properly but it heavily depend on the source codecs and quality and the targeted avi. One of those tools is free and is named super (i hate it because of it's working like pretty badly and sometime doesn't do what you wanted). The others free ways need encoding knowledge and most use avisynth but it is a lot more complex. The encoding might take a lot of time (days) depending the number of passes and wanted quality on a P4. A good recent computer (i7) should be able to do realtime encoding with two passes (one the best way to process xvid movie). Adobe should have its own all in one solution for doing this but i never used it.

Then there is blender (open source) for example or maya and probably many others i don't know.

To my knowledge, all of those duplicator would take more time to copy a hd to another as they copy all the drive and not what you put on the drive (they don't see if the drive is formated and if a sector is allocated before copying). As ghost is a little more clever it should only copy the stored data and not also the free space. Also recent drives should perform a lot better than 10GB/hour when imaging. When using 2 sata drive (ghosting one to another) , you should get about 70GB/hour, if using usb2 drive then it should be only about a third.

From what i know, you need some (professional) tools if you want to make virtual movies. If you just need to encode to upload it on you tube then there are a lot of tools to do it

I don't see how converting would increase quality as every time your encode with a non lossless codec (like xvid/divx/wmv/x264...) you loose quality. Also, when you encode something, it should be decoded first so if the decoded part is bad (like the one you see when playing it on vlc or mediaplayer) then the encoded will at least have the same default unless you filter it. There are specials forums for this kind of discussion: google is your friend.

Hum %CD% will only get the location of the folder from where the batch is launched => if your batch is in e:\temp and then launched from C:\ %CD% will be C:\. It also won't work with unc path. The right variable there is %~dp0. To properly use it, something like this should be used at the beginning of your batch: set batchfolder=%~dp0 echo %batchfolder%

Use regshot: - shot registry (1st ) before applying the setting manually on one computer. - apply manually the setting. - shot registry (2nd) and compare. This way you'll see which keys were modified.