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Upon further review... You want 1 machine account... if you: 1 backup the system (2K I assume) 2 add a partition 3 restore the image to the second partition 4 upgrade the first partition from 2K to XP That might do the trick you want... you would have to clean up the restored image well before upgrading it but, you have a backup so there's more room for error. This should maintain the same SID and a single domain account unless the SID changes due to OS differances... I'm pretty certain that a SID in part IDs the OS installed. In an upgrade that may not be true.

I'm not certain I follow you but, when you back up a system and restore it without using sysprep or any other utilities to wipe the SID fom the system, the restored machine should hold it's SID just fine. I assume you intend to: 1. Ghost backup the system 2. Put 2 partitions on te drive 3. Restore the ghost image to one of the partitions 4. Install the new OS on the second partition 5. Have a switching mechanism at startup Correct? The image restored in step 3 holds the same SID as the one backed up in 1. Also, all user/group accounts on the machine would NOT be affected by any SID wiping utilities... only the machine account itself. The new OS will get it's own SID and there's nothing you can do to "copy" the SID to it that I'm aware of... especially if it's a different OS since OS determines how the SID is structured.

Sounds like you have a driver issue. I would suggest replacing the video card driver first (most sensative) and work your way up.

The RDP client software that comes with XP, etc allows you to prevent printer mapping on the machine you're remotely connected to (normally it maps your local printers to that machine). I can't find any such option in the 2003 Resource Kit MMC Snap-in, nor can I find a group policy option to stop this from happening. Anyone know a hack for this? Thanks!

I checked out both docs you referanced... no effect with their suggested tweaks. Appears to be aimed at the stand alone client again. Thanks all the same!

I checked out both docs you referanced... no effect with their suggested tweaks. Appears to be aimed at the stand alone client again. Thanks all the same!

No, the snap-in doesn't seem to have options that the stand alone RDP client has. I like it because you can setup 15 servers in a pane on the left o the screen and with a click switch amoungst them.

Do you have Admin rights on the machine?

I'm just getting into the documentation on using On-demand's Winstall (formerly a Veritas product) for creating custom .MSI packages and then use Group policy or the Winstall Console to get the apps out to the users. I have also heard a few things about Intel's LANDesk suite for the same purpose. Anyone have experience with either of these packages or any other packages that they would like to comment about? About 500 PCs here and I'm tired of visiting every workstation for performing application upgrades/installs. Thanks! Fred

I disagree about MS abandoning Win2K for XP. Why? Becuase all of MS's servers are 2K, and the most critical aspects of SP3 are related to issues I'm having with servers. SP3 will come... it's just a question of when.

I have cleartype enabled on my XP machine. It looks great and really does read easier. My preferred font looks something like Arial. In IE I have to choose "User defined" from the View, Encoding drop down. However, IE keeps reverting back to western type style... which doesn't look as good. Anyone know how to lock down the prefered type style?

Never was checked.. not now

I've heard that there are security settings in IE that will put a stop to pop-ups. I've been using Pop-up Killer for a while, but it's become flaky.... it's over killing (killed this page). I know I can difine more in the aplication, but this may be a better way. Anyway.. anyone know what I can tweak to slow down the ads? Thanks!

While this was with W2K, I found that installing the card before the drivers was a big no-no. Install the drivers, reboot, shut down, then slip in the card. Other way around and I blue screened the machine.

Perhaps the virus and spyware detection are the actual problems... try turning them off for a while?

Another cool thing. MS finally realized that we still use 98 boot disks.. when you have a floopy and choose format in XP, there is a "create MS-DOS Startup Disk" option (ho-ray!) which creates a 98 system boot disk. Problem is, it puts a bunch of garbage on there too... easy enough to delete what you don't need... anything that's not hidden on the disk except command.com, then drop a copy of ghost on there (it may fit without bothering to delete all that stuff).

Are you using Dynamic disk or standard NTFS? I have run into problems with Dynamic disks and ghost, but all it prevented me from doing is imaging the entire disk... disk -to image. If I ran partition -to image and then selected ALL the partitions, I did not have a problem. However I have not tried this with NTFS 5 (XP), so I could be blowing smoke.

MS is making heavy progess on security which will be bundled into SP3... It's coming.. I can't say when. There are pages that list it's contents.. someone here with post it. anyway back in Feb. Bill sent out a directive to halt application developement and focus on bug fixing for what's already out there. I expect that is the slow down on SP3.. should be a very complete package... there's 400 or more fixes listed now.

Install USB 2 drivers BEFORE inserting the card. Install USB 2 drivers BEFORE inserting the card. Install USB 2 drivers BEFORE inserting the card. Or prepare for the BSD and more fun. ugh. Once they are in properly, you're in for some FAST performance. Before: USB 1.1 2GIGs/hour After: 2 Gigs in 4 minutes Whoa 8)

We tried lowering our password failure level to 3 bad attempts before the account locks out. Untfortunately there is a bug as far as SP2 where the locked account gets synced off to our remote DCs and then marks the account locked again after unlocking it locally. I even went so far as deleting a test account, waiting a day and adding it back in again. You'd think the used SID would have been different enough, but nope. MS has a fix but it is written in the Q-doc that is it "strongly suggested" to wait for SP3. So we bumped up again and wait wait wait. While I don't have a problem with up[censored], my boss is the "sky is falling" type and prefers to wait wait wait. There are so other WINS issues we ope will clear up as well.

Your LG CDR may not like XP... I think it's some kind of scam but CD burners have some kind of trouble with OS changes.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/app_info/explorer_switch.htm Fun stuff

Sorry I don't have the answer to that question... but on a related note... anyone know how to prevent explorer from spawning a new window after mapping a drive?

Any one know a trick to prevent roaming profiles from getting onto particular W2K machines? I'd like to see a user with a roaming profile be able to logon to a "public" PC without dragging all their crud onto it and then be set as a local profile to prevent trouble roaming away with them. thanks!