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I voted Intel. I used to work for Sony so I kinda like them but only half of their products are good to me.

Any time it comes to me wanting a new PC, I'll look and see what I can get. So maybe there is a computer I can buy that has exactly what I want, but usually this isn't the case. So I have to build it instead.

I do not know when dual booting first came about, but I know you could do a dual with Windows 95 and Linux. I am also not sure if Netware 4.1 and earlier counts. Netware is an OS but it required DOS in order to launch. This might open up the whole OS vs Shell debate so I'm not sure if Netware counts. Also, not sure is concurrent DOS counts as being more than one OS or not... Virtualization is a lot better because it allows you to use more than one OS install at once. Obviously Dual Boot you can only use one at a time.

I've been told that I am pretty fast but I never got measured before.

Try enforcing power settings through Local Computer Policy. You will find it under Administrator Templates\System\Power Management. It has options for both plugged in and on battery.

Is your shell so large it can't run off the ramdisk?

You should be able to do it the same way as in XP or Vista. When you go to Personalize, there is a link on the left that says 'Change Desktop Icons'. Then you can check the box like in XP. Here is a picture of these menus here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...-windows-vista/

Reassign Admin B to a lower user group, such as Backup Operators, and remove from that domain administrator group.

Reading through this document, I am beginning to think of how Windows goes about sharing DLLs (or other files) in the first place. If anyone has ever run filemon, you notice that programs spend a large amount of time trying to find the files they need. They first look in the app dir, then they look in c: and then they look in c:\windows. Typically, most of the shared (or system) files programs try to use are sitting in c:\windows but they will constantly search other places first. And programs don't seem to learn where these files are, so next time you open that program, it goes through its searching all over again. When I worked as a desktop applications programmer, is when I first found this behaviour. After checking with our other programmers and the source code, it was determined that this behaviour either comes from the compiler's instructions or Windows itself. In the idea of speeding up application calls, don't you think that this could be something that could be also fixed? I know this borders on a System bug or inadequacy and not so much related to DLL Hell, but I figured I'd post it.

msizap.exe would not identify any orphan MSI/MSP file ; it's meant to cleanup the registry and not the harddisk... quite the opposite of your objective ? You asked for DOS commands ? hmm ? Here is a tested and working batch that will cleanup orphaned MSI/MSP files (i've just made it, and it found 6 MSP to delete on my disk -- thank you for the idea). Additionaly it will delete any TMP files, so be sure to run the batch after a clean reboot, or when you have no installation/uninstallation pending. Important : no backup is made. but you may replace the del/f/a/q command by a move one... @REM ***** copy/paste this in a file named "CleanMSIP.cmd" then run it ***** @echo off REM go to the mess cd/d %systemroot%\Installer REM get all available info from registry reg export HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData UD.reg REM convert Unicode to ASCII and keep only lines containing .ms? type UD.reg | findstr/ri "\.ms." >> UD.txt REM for each file in the folder, check if it's in the list, and delete (only) if not for %%i in (*.msi *.msp) do ( findstr/i %%i UD.txt 1>nul || del/f/a/q %%i ) REM delete some temporary and no more needed files del/f/a UD.reg UD.txt *.tmp Note you need full read/write access to the Installer folder... The abstract is to get the list of the registered (thus valid) MSI/MSP files from the registry, then to identify which files from the disk are not in the list. As a consequence, this batch will only clean the Installer folder, leaving any subfolder untouched. You may modify it to compare the subfolders names with the contents of UD.reg to find orphaned folders. PS: about Office : i don't know the exact process of updates, service packs and hotfixes that may be applied to your son's computer ; but, if it was mine, i would : 1/ uninstall Office 2/ reboot 3/ run the above batch 4/ use a dice to decide between the two solutions below : 5a/ go to www.openoffice.org 5b/ reinstall MSOffice, go to office update site, install first the latest service pack, then any other fix Anyway, running the step n°3 may be enough pain... good luck I'd say using a coin would let you reach a decision faster in step 4.

Do you know which motherboard it is? You might be lucky and have a BIOS reset jumper.

I've only used Godaddy, although only on a renewal, prior registrars were Tucows, OpenSRS and AccountSupport (i think) and Hypermart and Xoom, those last two are long gone however.

That is cool. I still use CDex with CDDB to get all my tags filled when I rip from CD. The only real problems is getting stuff on straight DL that are tagged or named wrong. Those are so few in number that it really isn't worth it to me to have such a system.

Fight Club

Transformers!

Updated config info in first post.

Use Dependency Walker on bitsadmin.exe to find out what other files it needs. Right off the bat, it needs: msvcrt.dll advapi32.dll kernel32.dll ole32.dll But then, each of the above also have their own dependencies. Make sure all of the required files are in your PE and use regsvr32 is needed?

I don't believe you can redistribute these two files.

All of your errors say it can't read the system event log. Not sure if these are the same: Error 15100: The resource loader failed to find MUI file http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrorm...15100_15199.htm Win32 Error Code: 0x00000262 {Invalid Service Callback Entrypoint} The %hs service is not written correctly. The stack pointer has been left in an inconsistent state. The callback entry point should be declared as WINAPI or STDCALL. Selecting OK will cause the service to continue operation. However, the service process may operate incorrectly. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231199.aspx Someone else came up with this solution http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1453729.php

See if your WLAN has this option: http://www.appcrash.net/2007/02/cant-sleep-try-this.asp

I notice there are a couple I use that aren't listed in this entire thread. These can only be done with Vista Business and Ultimate, since they rely on using the Group Policy Object Editor. Account disabled after wake from sleep/hibernate when no password is used By default, Vista requires a password on resume/wake from hibernation. If you have a user account that does not have a password (not recommended) or need to use Vista in Factory or Audit mode for an extended period of time (like me) then you should disable this requirement. It is found here: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Power Management\Sleep Settings\ Require a Password when the computer wakes (disable) Network share/access/transfer speed is very slow when accessing XP or 2003 servers/clients/shares This is caused by the Link Layer Topology Mapper. Vista puts a priority of mapping out the network over traversing it initially. If you are on a small network, this should not apply. If you are on a large network or a medium - large network with frequent changes, such as not always the same computers on it at all times, then this can severely degrade your experience. It is designed for use with a similarly configured Server 2008 to accept and respond to Vista. If you do not have a responder server, Vista will constantly try to figure it out on its own or keep sending discovers to get a response. Disabling this will return Vista's networking to how it was on XP or earlier. Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Link Layer Topology Discovery\ Turn On Mapper I/O (LLTDIO) Driver (disable) Turn on Responder (RSPNDR) Driver (disable) Disabling these may also effect the Vista Network Map, not that I found that feature anything worth using anyways.

As being a former DJ I had a need for organized music as well. All of my MP3s are what I have on CD (or LP), but I do not organize them that way. It is because there are the same song on different CDs and also the same song with different actual labels on the CD or in CDDB. Right off the bat I name all songs as 'artist - title'.mp3. My music folder is like this: MUSIC -A --band1 --band2 --band3 -B --band1 -C -D etc. Having a good organizational method at the start is what helped me. Prenaming files is what stops me from having duplicates. I don't overly concern myself with the ID3 tags, although I will fix some occasionally.

I spent all day fixing up the old Ghostserver. We came to the conclusion that we needed a different drive enclosure. The one that was in there, for some reason, the rails weren't designed properly so the drives would move around in there. I took the whole thing apart, and found a 3 drive enclosure to use. I also had to replace the backplane on the single drive bay, which I used one from the old enclosure. That thing is hella dusty and my fingers were black by the time I was done. The motherboard, I found, is an Intel SE7501CW2 and it does NOT have any onboard SATA. So now I am using just 4 hard drives connected to the RAID card. The prospective outlook is: 80GB JBOD and 3x 400GB RAID5. Server 2008 is being installed on it now and hopefully there won't be any problems with it. It will be used to backup the Vistaserver because of its recent Ghost issues.

I am in this situation right now. I have a server with over 1TB of data that I need to start backing up. My solution was to build a backup server that will be copying files over the network. So in my case I matched HDD Space with equal HDD space, actually more.

probably because im a newbie at this and not familiar with those three. can you give me any more info on WDS or ALTRIS? WDS = Windows Deployment Services. There are a multitude of topics in this, the Vista and WinPE sections of this forum. Check the stickies. WDS goes hand in hand with WAIK or OPKT. Altiris (imo) is the greatest software invention to ever grace a corporate network. Unlike WDS, it isn't free (or free with your purchased Server license) but it is the most robust client management program I have ever used. I was very fond of it before it was purchased by Symantec, but afaik they haven't destroyed it. http://www.altiris.com/