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Your sysvol replication is working but not correctly this always happen when you restore a DC. This MS kb helped me a couple of times and see there in which cas case it might be applied.

Did you tried doing the partitions layout first with diskpart then applying the D: image first then applying the C: drive ?

Most of the virtual machines are 2003 2008 or 2008 R2. Some are Hyper-V VM and some a VMware VM. Seeing the poor performance and efficiency of the integrated defrag even in 2008, we sometimes backup/restore an entire volume to defrag faster.

The link are working on this Tomshardware post.

I know i think the most renown defrag tools for windows : - Raxco perfect disk - Diskeeper V-locity I've been looking for review and tests studies comparing both to find which one is the best suited but i never found anything. So if someone came across a good review, it would be great. I'll turn this into a poll, if no review is found.

I'm using mediaplayer hC because it's multithreaded and very light and some built-in codecs but not all unlike vlc or mplayer. But for what i'm playing back, it is the best and it has unique features like using a different audio output than the default one or display in fullscreen always on the same monitor etc ...

In order to use this feature, you need the remote computer to have at least server service and remote registry service started and the firewall open for those. If they are already started, you should look at netbios settings: - MS client should be checked on each network connections used on both computers. - in advanced tcp/ip settings, on the wins tab, netbios should be enabled on both network connections.

I'm using mediaplayer HC but it doesn't come with the codecs. If you need them and don't want to install anything else then you might like MPUI.

You could try the unixutils native w32 port or the cygwin port. I never tried them on a w9x though so i don't know if they will work. There is the djgpp version and if you need an up to date mingw port, it will most likely be on the mingw web site.

I don't see how a reverse proxy would help in those tasks as reverse proxy are usually setup close to the server to serve and cache internet requests and i don't think you're hosting youtube or facebook. A simple proxy like squid or MS ISA server would be enough for what you're wanting.

The address bar feature can be disabled with GPO if i remember correctly but i don't think you want to loose this. I don't think there is a way to disable only the internet part but on my XP SP3 with IE 8 there are never an IE launched when i write a folder name in a folder name of an already opened explorer and i never saw this behavior with folder names.

As far as i know, WOL use usually udp and not tcp as protocol and ports 7 or 9. Did you configure you router to redirect those udp ports ?

Msdinst.exe is part of windows XP OPK since SP2 (i think) and as such isn't freely redistributable. It is one way to inject mass storage drivers but there are others like the one i posted.

If your original need is a mass storage driver injection then you look at Driverinjection gui.

I wasn't thinking about hard drive powering down, i was thinking that the hard drive might have some bad sectors.

If you can reformat it , then old data should not be recoverable. The specs are there. Also, all sd cards are powered a max 3.6V so putting 9V would most likely kill the card.

Someone already wrote one function to do url decode in vbs.

On way would be checking smart attributes with smartctl from smartmontools. Some smart attributes are only available for ssd like"173 (ADh) Wear Leveling Count" and smartctl already identify model family of the tested drive which might already be enough. I just check and indeed smartctl has almost all family of ssd so checking the model family would most likely be enough: MODEL FAMILY: Apple SSD SM128 MODEL FAMILY: Asus-Phison SSD MODEL FAMILY: Crucial RealSSD C300 MODEL FAMILY: SandForce Driven SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Indilinx Barefoot based SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Intel X25-E SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Intel X18-M/X25-M G1 SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Intel X18-M/X25-M/X25-V G2 SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Intel 320 Series SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Intel 510 Series SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Kingston branded X25-V SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Kingston branded X25-V SSDs MODEL FAMILY: JMicron based SSDs MODEL FAMILY: JMicron based SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Samsung based SSDs MODEL FAMILY: Marvell SSD SD88SA024BA0 (SUN branded)

You need to allow and configure your dns server to either resolve directly public addresses or to forward all other domain dns queries to an external dns. The second solution is the most secure.

I hope this help (of course using the reverse settings).

It could be a hard drive problem. Could you check it with the tool from your hdd manufacturer ? See this page that has almost a link for all brand.

To avoid the problem raised by jaclaz you could use the unix tool date.exe like this: for /f "delims= usebackq" %%i in (`date.exe +%%m%%d%%y`) do (set currname=%%i) copy "i:\CT%currname%.txt" "c:\import" Be sure to set the right path to date.exe in the batch or else it might try to call the builtin windows date.

Delprof is the right way.

@jaclaz Also , i am not sure the "echo %%B >>lines.txt" line will work for every kind of character the line might contains: i am thinking about "%", ">" or "&" for example but perhaps the .inf files won't ever contains one of them.

@jaclaz I hate the dos find because i always had hard time getting it to do what i wanted ; and also, as i began scripting on unix , i always find first an algorithm translation with a batch adapted from some kind of unix shell scripting. Anyway, i never said my script coding was the best or even good. That said, i would do what tomasz86 is trying to do (extracting hotfix, getting files with the higher version in one .inf to create a service pack) with autoit (for the duplicate file part) but a batch script might be easy for you.