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Got my Achieva last night. I am very happy with it. Will try to post some pictures later.

I know my specs are somewhat old but win7 runs really smooth on my system.

Check out "Deep Freeze". It returns the pc to any pre-determined state set by you.

We ran demos and test when Vista came out. We decided that it wasn't worth the upgrade at the time. We stuck with XP pro at work in our domain environment. Looking back it was definitely the right decision because it saved us money and XP pro has remain relatively stable with SP3. Now we...

I've had this issue with a few of our desktops. We are running domain on server 03 and xp pro clients. I was never able to figure it out. It only happens when I upgrade the desktop to IE7. Go back to IE6 and the desktop boots up again. Weird eh? The only solution so far is to set the user...

How do you go about creating a desktop shortcut for "All Users" via GPO on Server 2003? Thanks.

Suggestions anyone?

I guess my last option is to set the users up with clean images, which I am trying to avoid.

This is the setup: Windows 2003 DC using AD and group policy Workstations are all Windows XP SP3 All workstations are on DHCP The update worked sucessfully with 95% (maybe 300) of the desktops using WSUS Only about 10-20 desktops are experiencing this "stuck" issue Things I've tried...

The most likely culprit are your map drives. 11 mapped drives seems to be quite a bit. If any one of the 11 map drives are having trouble, it will cause your "my computer" to search and search and search. What I would do is delete all the mapped drives. Add them back one by one. Open my...

We have a wsus box running as a vm. It's was originally a physical box until we did the p2v. So far it's being doing pretty well. As some has mentioned, just make sure the settings in your GPO are correct.

It's quite simple. Go to the AD and locked their account.

Cool.

Just keep in mind these are 5400rpm drives. Good deal still.

Google combofix. Run it in safe mode.

I setup my IPCop box this past weekend. Let me know what you guys think. Dell P4 1.6ghz 512 Ram 20 GB HDD And I have a quick question about IPCop. I installed the add-on web filter. Whenever I edit the web filter such as adding a new domain to block, the changes won't take effect...

^ XP pro is \\servername Then the list of shared printers will show up. Double click on it and it will install to the local machine. Does \\servername\printer apply to Vista?

Get your hands on a piece of software call Deep Freeze. It can reset your computer to whatever state you want after every restart. Check it out. http://www.faronics.com/

Either a really pissed off employee or a really horrible a$$hat employer....kinda funny

Oh crap! haha. That happened to me before as well a few years back. So weird!

You are going to scratch your head all day. This sounds like there may be all kinds of incompatiable settings going here. Give google and quick search and if you can't find anything, just abandon it. Go all Vista or all XP.

I hate to break it to you but the job market is really bad right now and many IT jobs are outsourced or given to visa workers from India or whatever country. Why would I pay you 70k to do the work when someone else is willing to take 30k right? You can get plenty of information on IT at dice.com.

Yea seriously but too bad it's not in the budget. We wisely got the "gold" warranty on the IBM T61 that he is using.

How about going to the director's location on multiple occasions because he keeps breaking his goddamn laptop? I think he has gone through at least 4 of them. I swear he treats it like garbage.

I don't have any certs. I have experience and knew some folks at the right time. I have an IT job in the Bay Area.

I think it starts from the basic hardware/software error to fire and water damage I guess. I wasn't specially told where it ends. Thanks for the site. I'll check it out.

I'm trying to do some reseaching on doing a disaster recovery plan for my agency but I don't know where to start. Any good sites out there? Any sample plans? Thanks. I have to create documentations for scenarios. If Exchange NIC dies > Call Dell for replacement > Replace NIC If...

It was kind of stressful for me when I worked at my last job as a on-site IT technician. I ran all over the Bay Area going to customer sites doing everything imaginable. It was virus/spyware removal. It was software installation and troubleshooting. It was setting up remote software and file...

I'm another person saved by getdataback ntfs. My files would be all gone without it!

Did you point the workstation to the server name in the GPO?

That's my point. Using MS data in regards to min spec is just misleading. What's the point of running the OS if it's crawling like dog sh1t right?

Tried NTbackup? Nice and free. I don't know if it'll have all the features you are looking for though.

Are you running Vista with 1gb ram? Running it with anything under 2gb ram is a b1tch! That min. spec crap from MS is nothing but bull and we all know that by now. So doing that % thing is a bit misleading. Heck, I need 4gb ram on Vista just to be comfortable.

We have been using XP pro for quite a few years now. There has been literally zero discussion within the IT staff and manager about upgrading to Vista. Let's just wait and see what this Windows 7 is all about. And about our users... They bitch whenever there is something new or just...

Your cable box should have no problem with the splitter. Your internet connection may degrade a little bit, but you probably won't even notice it. One recommendation is to make sure you use a higher quality splitter and not one of those cheap $5 types.

Experience > book smart

All you would need is a cheap decent switch. It can cost you as little as $15 bucks. You won't even need a gigabit one cause the xbox360 is running at 10/100. Just forget all that dual nic configuration on your PC and grab a switch at the store or online.

Why don't you power off your modem and router? Wait about 5 to 10 minutes, power them back on, and see if the problem is still there

Use combo fix and then malwarebytes in safe mode.

That happens a lot with software. They have false positives. You'll just have to manually choose not to have it delete the file(s).