Converting 2003 to Workstation

[bigguy]

I'm stuck on "disabling shutdown tracker" in your article on page 6.

I do not have a "systems folder" under Computer configuration >Administrative Templates. I'm running a Intel 2.53Mhz P4 with 1024M RAM, and 80G Hard drive. Tried two different versions of Enterprise and cannot disable the shutdown tracker. Any suggestions?

[vcant]

only thing i can say to make you feel better, is i dont have it on one of the installations either, the folder is just not showing up, no idea why...

its not that bad actually, unless you restart often.

hey may be someone knows the answer to it actually ????

[SunnyB]

Do this through the Group Policy Editor.

Start / Run / "gpedit.msc" / Enter.

Computer Administration / Administrative Templates / System.

Find "Activate Shutdown Event Tracker System State Data feature"

Right click / select properties / select disable.

[SunnyB]

OOPS.

Actually it's the entry just above the

"Activate Shutdown Event Tracker System State Data feature"

It is "Display Shutdown event tracker". Disable that one.

Enable the "Activate Shutdown Event Tracker System State Data feature".

Hope this didn't mess you up.

[bigguy]

Appreciate the quick reply Sunny.

The whole problem is that the "systems"

folder does not exist.

[K-mart Shopper]

All the folders exist guys.. someone just didn't put the full paths down.. if you look through them, you'll find them

Or just do the search

[bigguy]

the full paths of what? I spent 4 hours working on this last night--trust me they do no exist on my system.

[SunnyB]

First, expand the Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates and verify that the System tab is not there. If it isn't, highlight the Administrative Templates tab the from the menu, click on Edit then "Add / Remove Templates. From the list of snap-ins choose System then OK. Verify that the System tab is now visible under Admin Templates.

That should do it.