System Admin

Michael Martin wrote: Would I be in the running then? Of course not, silly - you're married.:-D "The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long

A Windows 2000 image will only work correctly if the right kernel, HAL and boot drivers are in the image. There are two main versions of kernel, uniprocessor (NTOSKRNL.EXE on the install disk) and multiprocessor (NTKRNLMP.EXE). There are also physical address extension versions (NTKRNLPA.EXE and NTKRPAMP.EXE) for systems with >4Gb of memory. A 'normal' and a PA image are both installed on any given system; once installed they're simply named NTOSKRNL.EXE and NTKRNLPA.EXE - the multiproc versions are renamed. There are a multitude of HALs supplied with the OS, including 'basic', 'multiprocessor', 'ACPI', 'single-processor APIC', 'ACPI with APIC'. Again, get the right one, or your system likely won't boot. Finally, your system loads a number of drivers at boot time, which are needed to be able to load the rest of the system. These are the drivers which are listed before the switch to graphics mode when you select a Safe Mode boot. Typically this includes system bus drivers and disk drivers. If one system's Athlon-based and another Intel-based, you may have problems if you're not using Microsoft's generic drivers.

We use both products, and MDaemon is a lot cheaper and easier to use the Exchange. MDaemon Pro 12 user license is $440, standard is $200: http://www.altn.com/Products/Default.asp?product_id=MDaemon[^] "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

if you are using NT, you can start a seperate process and hide the window using the START command and the /B Switch ... some important switches for START that mey be useful (ie, ymmv) START /Dpath Sets Current Drive And Dir For COmmand To path /I Initializes environment from parent /MIN or /MAX Starts new window minimized or maxmized /LOW, /NORMAL, or /HIGH - sets priority /WAIT Waits for app to terminate before continuing /B Executes command without creating new window ... Ive missed out a few unimportant settings - hope this helps though ;P

From a command prompt, enter net send /? It should spit out a bunch of info on the options available. The service is turned on and off from the Services applet in the Control Panel. "The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long

Try something like this (inside your InitInstance() function): // Parse command line for standard shell commands, DDE, file open CCommandLineInfo cmdInfo; ParseCommandLine(cmdInfo); \_TCHAR szExpanded\[MAX\_PATH+1\] = {0}; ExpandEnvironmentStrings(cmdInfo.m\_strFileName, szExpanded, MAX\_PATH); Then, instead of cmdInfo.m_strFileName, use szExpanded; I prefer to wear gloves when using it, but that's merely a matter of personal hygiene [Roger Wright on VB] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. [Rich Cook]

How about this: Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set objWMIService = objLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer, "root\cimv2", Uname, Pwd) :) Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.

Richard Deeming wrote: Try aspnet_regiis.exe :) I just found that. You would think that they would put this somewhere on the installing ASP.NET on IIS 5 page, but that would make sense and why would they do that. Thanks for the response though :) Matt Newman "Two things have come out of Berkley, Unix and Acid, we do not belive this to be a coincidence" Linux sucks twice as fast and 10 times more reliably, and since you have the source, it's your fault. -Ca1v1n Post best viewed with lynx

jhaga wrote: _[Edit: ok, you will see it in Processes but by selecting a strange name for it, it will be difficult to find] http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PreventClose.asp\[^\]_ I'm gonna check this article tomorrow, but if it works it changes many things. Thanks :) <edit> It does work, no trace of the process in Task Manager, however it is still shown in the Process Explorer (sysinternals) Thanks for the link. </edit> Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.

Cool :) Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.

Roger Wright wrote: Most MBs now have 4 USB ports - two implemented as jacks on the back of the case, and two available via headers on the board. These are connected to your front panel connectors with a cheap cable, if the MB has these extra ports. Unfortunately the motherboard doesn't have the required pins for the front of the case. Something I'm sure she'll be able to live without as the crappy old laptop we're replacing only had one anyway. Roger Wright wrote: Sounds like a very economical solution, grabbing a new case instead of mucking about with dangerous power tools. :-D It may be safer but not as much fun. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002

Finished this Tuesday night (it's Friday morning here now). Didn't have to reinstall Windows 98 so didn't have to worry about connecting it to a domain. Ended up having bodgy versions of MPR.DLL and WINMM.DLL. Extracted the originals from the CAB files and all worked like a charm. No idea what caused the bodgy files to appear, their anti-virus program found nothing as did Ad-aware 6. Michael Martin Australia "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002

No. In NT/2K/XP, it means "compressed to save space". ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

You might want to check these following articles: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32\_networkadapterconfiguration.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/about\_wmi.asp I hope that's help. "Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." -JosephCampbell

Just a guess, but maybe the file isn't exactly 0755 (maybe the suid/guid/sticky bits are set)? You can get the octal representation of the permissions of a file with: chmod --reference=qq.txt -v qq.txt (it's a hack... if anybody knows a better way, I'd love to know :)) - Mike