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On my personal workstation, I have always used a separate drive partition for data and a separate drive partition for apps, since I have multiple OS's and to keep partition sizes small. I point each app from each OS to the same location, so there is only one footprint of each installed app. If an uninstall is needed (rarely if ever), I just copy the app folder, uninstall it, then rename the copy back to the original so all the other OS's have it available. I was wondering whether anyone dual boots using XP/Vista and has a separate drive they install apps to that is common to both OS's. Thanks, -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures ar…

If one computer has two network cards installed, one to the internet and a second computer is hooked through the first computer (with the two cards) will the first computer with two cards antivirus etc. protect the second?

I am running Windows XP Professional. I automatically install all high-priority updates every week. For the last week or so, everytime I log on, I find that my PC's clock is an hour ahead. When I go to the 'Adjust Date/Time' window, I find that my time zone is set to "GMT-03:00, Brasilia" instead of "GMT-05:00, Eastern Time (US and Canada)', which is where I live. I change the setting, and my time is then accurate until I shut my PC down. When I start up again, I am find my time zone is again set to "GMT-03:00, Brasilia" . I have never been to that time zone, and I have never taken my PC out of my time zone. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Vin St…

Hi there, Assuming I have 10 Users. And each Users have 2 local printers configured. All 10 Users are Remote Users accessing Terminal Server. When everyone logon to Terminal Server, there are 20 Printers available on the Server. Is there a way to hide the Printers belong to other Users? In other words, User A have access to his/her own Printer only. I hope this is clear. regards, Boon

Hello all, I'm setting up a small office that will only have one server that will act as a DC and the Terminal server. I want to lock down a group of users terminal service desktop, to allow only two application they can use. Here is my problem, I have found some articles that got me close. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260370 is one have got me the closest, but when I use Method 2 of this article, it also locks down the Administrator's desktop on both terminal and console desktops. Here are the steps I have taken: 1. Created a new GPO (with all the User Configuration settings needed) on the Domain Controller's OU 2. I enable the loopback proce…

We want to give a user access to a server via Remote Desktop and only give them access to a single program. This works perfectly fine, howerver when the user (or us as Administrators) close the program, the program closes but their is no way to exist out of the session unless you disconnect. By no way I mean the screen is just blue, looks like explorer.exe didnt start or something. This seems to be common behaviour across many of our servers. Why is this and can we have it so when the program closes we can just go to the remote desktop sessions desktop?

Hi, I would like to ask a question, who did RDP to my Windows xp last time? my system is in domain (Windows 2003), and some one Remote destop to my system and deleted several files. currently auditing is not configured. thanks

Hi, I've run into a problem with file sharing between my laptop and my desktop. It used to work perfectly. What I do is connect the two computers through a cross over cable. I connect from the desktop to the laptop by typing the ip adress in the file manage box. so something like \\192.xxx.xxx.xxx\d$. This used to bring up a login box (laptop is part of the company network). After this I had access to all the files on the d-drive. Now however it doesn't work anymore. I can still do a ping and that works, I can even start a remote desktop connection and that works too. But a simple filesharing connection is not possible. I don't know if it matters bu…

Hi, Over the last few weeks the system (Dell PowerEdge SC440 Windows Server 2003 for small business server- out of warranty by 3 months!) has started to freeze. The screen freezes with no mouse movement or keyboard input registered. It started just every few days then sometimes twice a day then every few days then once a day and today every 10 minutes or so. I have changed the RAM (After the Health Monitor showed an error with the RAM) and also the LAN card (there wasn't any errors but I thought I should try it) but although they seemed to make a difference it was a red herring and now it is as bad as ever. There are no errors in the log files except …

How to configure CA / Active Directory (server 2003) to automatically removing expired certificates? Thanks.

I need a Schedule Tasks in Windows XP (automatically back-up files) but my PC is networked and I am ubable to open Schedule Tasks is it is not available from the start menu. Can anyone help. Thanks

Gurus, What is your position on remotely installing software via RDP/Terminal Services? In other words, sitting at your desk somewhere, logging into a remote server using the Remote Desktop protocol, and installing software. I believe ""shadow key corruption" could occur in this manner and advise against it. I am looking for other thoughts however. -- Spin

Gurus, What is your position on remotely installing software via RDP/Terminal Services? In other words, sitting at your desk somewhere, logging into a remote server using the Remote Desktop protocol, and installing software. I believe ""shadow key corruption" could occur in this manner and advise against it. I am looking for other thoughts however. -- Spin

Well after reading the KB article about problems with repeatedly installing the same update (and finding it unhelpful), sending a mail to MS customer support (and getting back a blank response and a link to the KB, not even to an article, just generally to the support webside which is an insult) I come here hoping someone has an answer. Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB948109) Well it's been installed about 6 times now. 4 times through automatic updates, 2 times through the updates website and each time has suceeded. However, it still isnt registering that it is installed and still wants it. I suspect the downloaded file may b…

After initial boot of the server (factory install) the server was joined to the 2003 AD domain. Prior to rebooting I noticed that I was unable to make any configuration changes to the Firewall i.e. add exceptions. Upon rebooting the firewall service was not running and when I tried to restart it, received a message saying that one of it's dependant services (BFE) was not started. Starting the BFE resulted in an error 5: Access is denied. This occurred in both local and domain admin accounts. Moving the server to a seperate OU that denies all GPOs resulted in the same issues as did a gpupdate/reboot. Setting BFE to run as the domain admin resulted in …