Davros

This can help with the BHOs: http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm And you can use CWShredder to help with the hijackers, Ad-Aware and Spybot for adware.

I use Serv-U. The free personal edition supports up to 5 accounts and 2 concurrent connections. http://www.serv-u.com

Go to add/remove programs in your control panel and uninstall any printer software you see in there. Then open your printers folder (also in control panel). Click File, Server Properties. Go to the Drivers tab. Remove any drivers in the list related to the printer. If you get an error at this point and are unable to remove the drivers, you need to restart the spooler service. To do this, click Start, Run, type services.msc and click OK. In the list find "Print Spooler." Right click, then click Restart. After it restarts go back and remove the drivers. After this, see if you can install the correct drivers.

It sounds like your hard drive is getting flaky. Hopefully it is just limited to a few clusters and won't spread anymore. Run chkdsk /R to mark bad clusters and recover as many files as possible. After this is done, reinstall drivers for all of your hardware. For PNP drivers that Windows has the drivers for, like your CDROM, just uninstall the device from the hardware list and reboot. Then reinstall Office and Norton. Then reinstall any other programs that are giving you problems. If you are having problems with Windows itself, do a repair install first. Boot to the CD, and press Enter to install, not R to repair. It will detect the current Windows install and ask if you want to repair it.

Well, I've been gone for over a year, due to working way too much. But I've just come back to this forum a few days ago and see a lot of familiar names still here. I definitely notice the huge drop in activity, except for APK's posts! I'll stick around to contribute what I can. Speaking for myself only, Internet activity has seen a decline over the past year or two. I used to have 100+ contacts in my ICQ list and could barley keep up with everyone. Now I don't even have a chat program installed. I game a lot less now also. I used to spend nearly all of my free time in MMORPG's, and before that I was churning out custom maps for Half Life and doing websites for guilds and clans. Now I have no desire to get that involved anymore. I just play UT2004 a couple hours a week. I still keep my ftp site running though.

I use TerminatorX. http://www.plevna.f9.co.uk/

Can the W2K machine ping itself? Can it ping 127.0.0.1? Can it ping the gateway? You mention both are in the same domain called HOME. Are you sure they aren't in a workgroup, not a domain? It should be a workgroup unless you have a domain controller running.

You already configured all those various firewalls, routers, etc. to forward TCP port 80 to your internal computer hosting the website. So now do the same thing with TCP port 3389 for Remote Desktop.

For the printer get yourself an HP JetDirect print server. There are USB and parallel varieties. Then your printer has it's own IP and isn't dependant on any other computers being powered on. The Netgear FVS318 is definitely the way to go.

I use Win2pdf at our company. Pretty damn cheap compared to full blown Acrobat for users who only need to make pdf's, and very easy for them to handle.

Since I've been reworking my unattended installs lately, does anyone know how to do an unattended install of DX9? The method I use for 8.1 does not work, and as usual documentation on this is scarce. I don't actually plan on deploying this now, it's way too new, but I would like to know how it's done.

Quote: To start off you get the T3 trailor, then it never lets up. And the Dumb and Dumberer trailer! :x

Thanks, I just figured it out too. Here's what my QuickTimeInstaller.ini looks like: [QTSETUP] license_option=0 no_dialogs=true registration_dialog=false supress_speed_dialog=true install_qtjava=false install_qd3d=true show_sample=false show_readme=false show_programfolder=false install_qtinfo=true Also, here's how to customize the settings after the unattended install: 1. Install QuickTime on a test PC, then run it. 2. Set all the preferences however you like. 3. Close QuickTime and save a copy of the file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QuickTime\QuickTime.qtp. This is where all of the settings are stored. 4. After you do the unattended install on user's computers, replace the default QuickTime.qtp file with the one that you saved.

Does anyone know how to do an unattended install of Quicktime Player without making an msi file? I can't seem to find any info on this.

Make sure in the BIOS that you have the hard drive at the top of the boot order list.