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This may be possible, although I wouldn't recommend it. You can boot to WinPE and could use XCACLS (or CACLS) to change the permissions so that Windows cannot write to the folder! Then you can use attrib to -R +A -S -H and delete the files in there. Then again Windows might give you some big time errors or even a Blue Screen perhaps and create system instability! Why would you want to do this? Get a bigger hard drive!

Using x64 Vista is a thing I wouldn't recommend to just anyone. It requires you to keep track of what programs/drivers you have installed and what you want to install. For compatibility reasons of course. I wouldn't trust OEM loaded x64 (ala HP) unless you purchased the OS on the side and had the OEM put just that media on the hard drive. 64bit to the masses isn't going to work because most people do not understand what they are getting themselves into. Its like when Sony started selling VAIOs with RAID on them. I was with Sony at that time (for the second time) and many users called up to complain. Most of them did stupid things like changing their BIOS settings which would blow away the array on them. Also, I have noticed, with the advent of 2008 Server, that even on a base install, the OS is not configured properly and will generate errors out of the box. Its an annoying process, especially when you find a lot of errors (like in my case, Kerberos related ones) are false negatives and can be ignored. If there was a way to hide these types of errors then I would think that would be better.

I agree, this is a good place. And it has many fields of discussion, and helpful to those of us who have to work with MS technologies or go for certifications.

I refuse to use RapidShare. To start, I am not willing to pay to download files. RapidShare isn't like Newsgroups here. Second, even if I would use the free service (the 1 file per 24 hours) it usually is a waste because so many people upload files in many peices. And in addition, most files on RapidShare are warez and seems to be a popular site to host such files.

as it has some security features to restrict access to some operations. Site is down, get it here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://member...4/dos/moo31.zip jaclaz I tried about 7 different ones. Some weren't user friendly, and the 2 I did get to work didn't like launching Intel's BIOS updaters. Usually exited with a file not found error. MOO ended up working just fine. I'll be using that one!

So far, only MSI and Intel (from boards I've use) have 16 bit Flash updaters and AOpen is the only 32bit flash app. Does Intel at least make a Windows flash update program?

Thanks for the info. I already have used the 9550SX and 9650SE in Server 2008, so I know those work fine. 2008 actually has native support for the 9550 but you need a driver for the 9650. I have also talked about this with a guy here and I've come to the better idea of just running a couple large drives JBOD, but leaving open the option of building an additional storage server. That would cut down the cost of drives if I only need to get 2 RE drives for the OS and standard drives for data. EDIT: I wanted to clarify my 2008 experiences. Server 2008 standard 32bit and 64 bit have built in support for 9550, only tried 64bit with the 9650, not 32bit.

Check and see which HAL you are using. In Device Manager, under computer, if it says ACPI Uniprocessor, that would explain why Task Manager only shows one core. Possible reasons for this (if it happens to be the case) that these machines originally had Pentium 4 or Celeron CPUs and were upgraded after Windows was installed. Also possible this was done prior to installing SP2 (for XP).

I am responsible for updating our universal USB drives. I got this responsibility because we used to have a bunch of floppies and USB drives for different BIOS updates and GHost methods. I decided to take all of these and build a single USB drive to handle everything. These devices we call Super Ghost. They can do BIOS updates for 30+ boards, load Ghost for a dozen different NICs, has DOS tools like Format, Attrib, etc and also has a mode to support NTFS in DOS. Originally I used "Windows 98" DOS files which are created when you do a bootable format with Windows 2003 or XP. At some point we came across the inability to load an NDIS driver for the Realtek 8111 series NIC, and this was because it required DOS 7.1 files. I had rebuilt the entire system using DOS 7.1. The menu system is primarily driven by the CONFIG.SYS (in order to be able to load different drivers) and batch files. While the CONFIG.SYS menu option supports submenus, the batch files menus are driven by using CHOICE.COM, which has a maximum limit of 9 choices. For example, if we want to update the BIOS for an Intel board, we go to that menu, but there is a maximum of 9 options. If a new board is to be added, we drop off one of the boards that isn't in production anymore. Normally this is a fine enough but now there is a problem. We have 11 Intel boards in production! In an effort to make these USB Keys user friendly, I need to rebuild it once again to handle these extra choices. I suppose one option is to redo the entire thing using the CONFIG.SYS supermenu options, but then I remember old DOS GUI programs. Are these any of these programs out there that I can use to build a menu with? Or any tutorials on how to create a GUI in DOS? I suppose again that a further option could be to put WFW on these things... that would be really weird... Any ideas?

A Generalize doesn't always remove everything tho. If I install all the drivers for a machine, then generalize, capture and redeploy on another machine, it installs all the drivers on the new system automatically, except video. Can't figure out why video is special.

Right well the "2nd" startup sound can't be assigned (or unassigned) from the Sound cpl, unless you chose the No Sounds scheme.

At least on the PC, since Fallout 3 was based on Oblivion, is it modder friendly? Has any mods been made for it yet?

I got 25 out of 69. The thing at the top said no expansions, such as Sega CD, 32x, etc. Virtual Boy is on there, but Wonderswan wasn't. Neither was Neo Geo Pocket, CD System, etc. Pretty fun game tho. I forgot about the 3DO...

I wanted to update on this thread. I had opened an SR with Microsoft regarding the Server 2008 and its upload speed. After much testing and debugging and uploading ginormous files, the issue has been resolved. The resolution was as follows: Change the following registry keys to 0 from 1: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\parameters\EnableSecuritySignature HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\parameters\RequireSecuritySignature Overall network speed seemed to have been increased by this as well. Even transfers up and down to the file server are much faster.

I am now at the stage, when determining what to do with my next computer, that I am thinking about RAID options. I usually like the idea of RAID1 for OS and RAID5 for storage. My next OS will be Vista Business, and I have questions regarding 32bit vs 64bit. The motherboard I've settled on is the DP35DP, which has onboard RAID support. I would use the onboard for RAID1 for the OS, but I am concerned about the driver support for Vista. Also I would like to look into a card to do RAID5 and yet again more concerns about drivers. The RAID card that I would be interested in getting would be a 3ware, but I do not understand their definition of connectors, being Discrete or Multi-Lane. Are these typical server board slots? For example, here at work I use the 9550SX and 9650 but they are 64bit cards (using 64bit slots in Intel server boards). I know that the motherboard I am going with does not have these slots. Also, 3ware's cards do not seem to have Vista driver support, but do have Server 2008 32 and 64bit driver support. Can these be used in Vista? Then again, I may not even use RAID for storage at all if this becomes too troublesome. Perhaps instead I can put together a low cost server to run as a NAS instead. The ability to use 64bit Vista will determine wholly on driver support. I might not even make that jump as of yet, and deal with 3.2GB RAM in Vista 32 for a while. Tell me your thoughts on this.

Ah this is true. But not all functions of a 32bit app will work properly in 64bit, even if running under the wow64. Is there a way (in those OSes) to force an app to run with just the 64bit system and not use the 32bit system?

You need to sysprep, even if bringing down to the same machine. Sometimes a standard sysprep will not redeploy to the hardware it was captured from and you need to do a generalize. You can only do a generalize 3 times, unless you extend the activation period. If you do a generalize, you can create custom sysprep.inf (or whatever it uses now) to reinstall the drivers again when you go through the welcome.

It is possible that your antivirus searches for batch files that may be viruses?

I came the way of AutoIT from another app scripter called KIX. AutoIT is way better but now that I think of it, without having known KIX before AutoIT would have been harder for me. http://www.kixtart.org/

Try booting into Safe Mode to see how that reacts. If it works, then run msconfig to change the startup programs (not the services). and then try booting into normal mode. Make sure to do this when plugged in. Most notebooks have a program that is for the battery, so if you disable it you won't see your charge amount.

Uninstall the nVidia driver package from Programs and Features. Do not restart like it wants you to. Then remove the display adapters from Device Manager. Then restart the computer. When it comes back up, your resolution may be different, but then go check Device Manager and see what name it has in Display Adapters. It should be Standard VGA.

It comes down to how you use it. And it also depends on who makes it. I think that Apple makes the Mac OS so that people can't break it. THey accept that most PC users are idiots and they wouldn't know how to get to the bash to screw things up. Of course if you use Vista properly you won't have any problems either, but that's not to say that will hold true for you. As far as choosing between the two, it really comes down to what programs you want to use. And you have to accept the fact that if you choose a Mac, then you aren't going to be able to run all PC apps, since the XP emulation isn't going to be 100% reliable.

They do for me up to a point. I typically only run test for CSS and against IE. I've done XHTML before but I find that standard is too wordy to follow properly, like there needs to be less code or to make it easier. Example, why is it required to have alt text for all images? Even ones that are background elements, and especially if you use spacers or slices, it gets annoying.

I recommend first that you read and understand MySQL (or MSSQL) table structure. Then figure out all the tables you will need and pre-design them. And make sure you have your database all figured out BEFORE you go about creating any of it, or the PHP code to handle it. Alternatively, you could look into trying out Altiris Inventory Solution, which can log all this stuff for you, and its front end is a website anyways. http://www.symantec.com/business/inventory-solution

I prefer the Group Policy Editor and the Windows Registry editor myself.