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You need srvany.exe et instsrv from the resource kit.

You could disable UAC.

Yes but it might be slightly complex and your service might not accept it. There are 3 ways to do it : - The first two is create a new service with instsrv et srvany from the resource kit : - make the new service launch a cmd which will set the variable and launch directly the executable launched by the original service - or make a new service launch a cmd which will modify in the registry the environment variable and then launch the service sleep a little and remove the added reg entry -The third way is to use a specific user for this service and set the variable for this specific user only. This is the easiest way if your service support it.

As native vbs doesn't provide mouse click functionality, you'll need to use another way: autoit might be the easiest way.

Did you tried the official XP drivers ?

Then you'll need MUI for 2000 too: see the note in the workaround of this KB.

It should be launching something like that: rundll32 netshell.dll,RepairConnection "your connection name" But this command alone doesn't show anything so i'm not sure if it is working or not. Someone with the same need already asked for something similar there: http://dx21.com/ezine/vance/default.aspx?PID=166

You can use rammap if your os is vista or higher and vmmap for XP or higher.

You could try to use netstat -no to show both the process id opening the connection and the remote ip address. The process id of pid can also be shown in taskmanager so you'll be able to see there what process is making the connections and then you can use process explorer (available on Microsoft web site) see a litlle more like number of threads launched by this process (a lot of threads, more than 100 may be bad). netstat -e show statistics of the interface since boot time and not real time so it doesn't show anything suspicious. If there was, every 10 seconds the number of packets sent and receive would increase by big numbers (10000 or so). Anyway, i still don't see how the tech guy do its jobs: in this case, he should make a file transfer test (about 100MB) to a ftp hosted by your internet provider. That's the right way to check speed. There are also some website saying that they can test your speed but that's the speed you get to this particular website and not all internet so it can report speeds a lot lower than your max one as it heavily depends on the peering between the different providers.

I'm looking for something like Acronis true image or Symantec backup exec system recovery but free. I already tried the integrated tool from Microsoft (wbadmin) but it doesn't allow compression. The goal is to replicate/backup a windows 2008R2 (encrypted with bitlocker but of course without tpm) as a virtual machine or anything that has to be to be easy as it can to be restored as a virtual machine. The destination will be a local drive and then it will be sent over the wan to a sftp server. Of course the tool need to perform its job online as i can't shutdown it for backups. Any suggestion will be welcome.

If you're working with xls files, then you should use vba to create a macro that would do you need. Because perl will launch excel with OLE to process your files and it will be slower using perl or any other language and it will be a lot easier to maintain to have everything in excel.

Finally i did the chkdsk /f and it solved the problem after 2 passes (and reboot between).

Mixing scripting langages often create strange behaviour so i would avoid that and use either perl or batch. In most cases, it would probably be easier to have a perl script to do all the work and it would also be faster.

I'll just add that if you want a fast execution speed, you most likely shouldn't use a scripting langage.

Are you sure the silicon image configuration isn't set to raid (in the bios ) ?

You can't cancel it properly. You kill/stop the associated running process or you can simply reboot.

Could you tell us with what application are you trying to save as ?

There aren't any software that would work on most recent computers. If it's still under warranty, you should contact Sony support as they might have a master password or explain to you how to remove it safely. If you don't find any other solution, you'll probably need to remove the bios battery for at least 30s without the power cord and without the battery, it usually work on most laptop.

I would make an offline raw backup image of one drive (by plugin it on another computer for example) and then try chkdsk /r on all those partitions and if this doesn't solve the problem try to recover the data partition with testdisk.

To my knowledge it is included in the mui pack for XP and isn't available to download unless you have an msdn account.

Of course "+>" is not right , if you open a file while deleting its content, you won't read too much data from it. The original purpose of this mode is to write first the in file after erasing its contend then read. For what you're triying to do "+<" should work.

What is win98FE ? Windows 98 Floppy Edition ?

What options does your actual CD provide ? To modify it, you'll need to extract the floppy image from the cd then edit config.sys and autoexec.bat and then save the floppy then create the new CD image with the new boot floppy.

Google is your friend: DNS. And if you want to cut all your dns traffic, you'll most likely end up with a computer that won't access any other computer by its name and not able to browse anything on the internet (unless you're using a proxy). You can check easily by stopping dns client and dns server services. The dns server is only needed when client computer (with dns client service enabled) will connect to it for AD name resolution for example.

Thanks for the reply but yes i tried mupdf and it didn't handle the pdf file it displayed the same result the other given.