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The answer for all those question is yes as long as you don't use special hardware (for music/image/video production) that virtualization could not handle and if you're not too concerned with security. As long as you don't add a virtual network adapter the virtual xp won't get any networking. The other way around won't work as the virtualisation tool need to use the network adapter to provide network to the linux so the xp will have a logical internet access but you could configure it so it wouldn't work properly (most likely your internet provider is using dhcp to assign an ip to connect to internet so if you configure a static ip outside the network provided). So this solution is less secure. Of course as long as you don't install/disable the network adapter on the XP computer, there is low to zero way to have security problems (most of them would come with data transfer). This is also the most secure scenario of all and the easiest to set.

For my needs, i found bulk rename utility quite good.

Indeed those values will force your dns client to resolve everytime the failing dns name but it won't improve things because retrying to resolve something that timeout for example take a few seconds so caching is better way. I disagree on the reason to disable caching negative answers also, as there is a command "ipconfig /flushdns" that will clear the cache without rebooting. Also if you really want to improve the speed when browsing, the best way is by using caching proxy (like Squid) with a dns server (like Bind) but those usually are installed on linux.

you should try testdisk from a bootable media (my favorite livecd with testdisk is systemrescuecd ). Be sure to run it without writing anything and create a log file as it will help other people here (most likely Jaclaz) to help you. You should also create full raw disk image as it was explained there.

With lcd screen, you have a default resolution that should be used mostly (others might need you to tune either the driver settings or the monitor settings) because it has the best quality. You can still change your windows display settings to allow bigger fonts and icons.

Indeed duplicate filefinder is very clever as it is using size and partial md5 to compare files. It only miss a delete and/or "replace with a hardlink" function.

There is a gui for robocopy but i never needed it.

I would use a simple robocopy with /mir and /mot option and on the destination use shadows copies every hours (for example).

Indeed you need to add all needed FQDN when creating the self signed certificate (as explained there) and that should solve one problem : the OWA website should only show that the certificate is self signed until you add/deploy the certificate of your certificate autority on the computers needing to access to the OWA.

Then you might need to impersonnate Trusted installer as explained there.

Did you tried to add: set __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker At the begining of your batch ?

Then the school shouldn't have let all those computer go without formating (at least) the hard drives as the VLK license is tied to the school and giving the computer with the vlk license is ususally forbidden in those public corporations. If the computer comes with an OEM XP Sticker, you should be able to easily reinstall after finding an HP XP media CD/ iso (or after creating it from other XP media). But to answer the question, the fastest way to resize/move/change partition scheme would be booting to a Gparted live CD and modify the partitions scheme with it. My favorite Live CD with Gparted is systemrescueCD but you could use almost any live CD with gparted.

Of course and that's called Air Conditioner. Joke aside, anything that will reduce the temperature of the room below 20° will provide a good solution to cool your computer.

The usb related hotfix contained in sp3 (those that i found) are the following: 887173, 901122, 905816, 914015, 925528, 927546, 935708, 940086, 940514 and 943198. No sure if it will help or not.

This might help creating the dump. If you own another computer and a null modem cable, you can try remote kernel debugging.

You could enable security audit on objects and check the security eventlogs but usually there are way too much information there to be able to handle it easily. Another way would be to use procmon and specify a filter on this specific registry entry and let it log to a file for a week of test of every installed applications.

Everything you encountered is pretty normal and nothing can be confgiured to avoid this: - when you loose your AD, you actually loose all SID of all AD objects (so including computer accounts and users accounts). - then you need to re-add all computers to the domain. - then after you recreated the users accounts, you'll need to re-add their SID on every computer it was present (for the ntfs rights). - you'll also need to recreate groups and add again the users/groups that were inside and apply those groups to the shared folders - etc.... In short, you have to do everything that was done since the creation of the AD that is lost and part of those steps need extra steps to retreive old users settings. For the profile thingy, you'll have a hard time but you can manage to - load every users old profile registry hive (ntuser.dat) then export it as a .reg - login with the user account to create the new profile then logout. - robocopy everything except ntuser.dat from the old profile in the new profile without the NTFS rights. - load the new profile hive and import almost everything This should solve mosts issues (some issue might still be there due to the loss of the right SID) but the proper way was to restore active directory even with an old backup.

Maybe just maybe, it could be that mediaplayer is trying to identify the cd audio by trying to connect to MS cddb database and is timeouting.

You might need to remove the default symmpi.sys or set it to load after the lsi_sas.sys in txtsetup.sif in section "[sCSI.Load]".

Did you tried to limit your upload bandwidth ? Usually torrent apps saturate the upload bandwidth.

Manual slipstreaming of intel ahci/raid driver might help you understanding how to adapt it with your sas raid driver.

"more" is used to show only portion of file to screen at the size of dos box so it is normal that it works like this. Perhaps you could trick it by changing the size of the dos box before running "more". If you need to remove tabulation, a tool like unix sed would be usefull.

Are you sure the windows 2008 R2 firewall is configured properly to allow sending WOL packet (i.e: allow sending udp packet on port 7/9) ?

Just so it is clear: Xperf isn't fully support on XP.

Sysinternals vmmap might help.