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Look for dumpevt from systemtools. It's free. The task scheduler and a simple batch should be able to launch it every hour.

You simply need to use LC5 (L0phtCrack) on the sam file from the system restore. If the password is easy it should find it after only few hours.

Try via netsh command.

Try to test your ram with memtest or memtest+. If your ram is ok, try to do a chkdsk D: from a dos box. If it report errors, you'd need to do a chkdsk /F to fix the errors. You can also try to test the surface of the disk with the tool from your disk manufacturer.

Acronis has a tool which is made to do it: it's named universal restore.

Some users might be hidden in outlook.

Lastest Acronis true image workstation (9.1.x) should work with sata2 disks. Lastest Symantec Live state recovery should also work.

Also Openmosix.

To diagnose hard drive problems, the best choice is to test it with the tool made by the disk's manufacturer. You can try to recover the datas with hdd regenerator from dposoft.

Could you post the files generated when printing with generic text driver and with HP 5si PS driver ? From what you say it's look like the software is printing in graphic mode.

Does the computers which won't work use ide drives and have a sata controller enabled ? I 've had similar problem when booting dos floppy on some hp evo and disabling the sata controller was the solution.

Does the generic text file print to the port "FILE" ? If this doesn't work, you can try to analyse the print output to a postscript file. But this won't be very easy.

Add the task via a gpo which will run a batch. This batch will use the at command to add the task on each computer.

The listfile is for "in archive" files. The easier way to do it is to do: for /f %i in (list.lst) do (unrar e %i %i\) where the list.lst contains all the zip filename. Remove the %i\ in the command line if you don't want unrar to extract each archive in a folder with the archive name.

If a reboot isn't a problem,a workaround would be by scheduling a reboot this way : Add a task in the task scheduler wich will first add registry autologon entries then reboot. Add another task to remove the autologon entries from registry. Another way should be to try to run the Pc Cillin services with a local administrator account instead of the local system account if this the one used. I hope this helps

You can also use a batch script via a domain policy if your 30+ comp are in the same domain or do it via psexec for sysinternals (able to run a command on a remote comp).

Here is a bartpe Plugin for visual basic 5/6 : vbrun. Hope this help.

Did you tried to modify this reg entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ProductOptions ProductType=WinNT

This kind of error should logged in the eventlog so you should be able to check periodicaly by script if it ok or not. Eventquery.vbs which is in system32 of XP and 2k3 should help you to do this automatically.

I have the same issue on a HP NAS and after disabling ASR in the bios, the server won't reboot but seems to be freezed for 2/3 hours every wednesday morning at six o'clock. Of course all possible bios / firmware upgrade have been made and the Windows 2003 is also updated with lastest service pack and patchs.

Perhaps a stupid idea i'm not sure of the side effects never tried this: Modify the group name of the netlogon service which is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon Group=RemoteValidation To HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon Group=[b]RemoteValidationDelayed[/b] And add RemoteValidationDelayed at the end of the List value there: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServiceGroupOrder List="System Reserved Boot Bus Extender System Bus Extender SCSI miniport Port Primary Disk SCSI Class SCSI CDROM Class FSFilter Infrastructure FSFilter System FSFilter Bottom FSFilter Copy Protection FSFilter Security Enhancer FSFilter Open File FSFilter Physical Quota Management FSFilter Encryption FSFilter Compression FSFilter HSM FSFilter Cluster File System FSFilter System Recovery FSFilter Quota Management FSFilter Content Screener FSFilter Continuous Backup FSFilter Replication FSFilter Anti-Virus FSFilter Undelete FSFilter Activity Monitor FSFilter Top Filter Boot File System Base Pointer Port Keyboard Port Pointer Class Keyboard Class Video Init Video Video Save File System Event Log Streams Drivers NDIS Wrapper COM Infrastructure UIGroup LocalValidation PlugPlay PNP_TDI NDIS TDI NetBIOSGroup ShellSvcGroup SchedulerGroup SpoolerGroup AudioGroup SmartCardGroup NetworkProvider RemoteValidation NetDDEGroup Parallel arbitrator Extended Base PCI Configuration MS Transactions RemoteValidationDelayed " I hope it'll help.

The mouse feature hasn't been implemented in the graphic mode. If you want a multiboot tool with mouse and graphic the only one i know is Easyboot.

If you're speaking about the desktop wallpaper, the reg entry is this one: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop Wallpaper="c:\windows\wallpaper.bmp" if you want to have it for the current user only. And in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop Wallpaper="c:\windows\wallpaper.bmp" if you want to set it for all users (but you have to set it before any user log on once.).

I'll try r-studio or acronis disk director if there was another kind of partition before.

Here is a howto for bartPE(made by Xephion), Just replace step 4 by build your winPE directory and replace ntkrnlmp.exe with the new one you created at step 3 and then create the iso and so on....