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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.

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.

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.

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

I used to have that problem before SP1. Weird.

Our company is about to migrate from NT4 to a W2K domain. I'm currently planning the migration and domain design. We will have an empty root domain with 3 child domains, one for each city. One of the cities will have 5 sites within the domain, separated by WAN links. This is the domain that I am directly responsible for. Each site will have one domain controller, which will also be a DNS server. Previously we only used WINS for internal name resolution, but we will leave WINS behind and rely on DNS alone. My only uncertainty is in regards to DNS. What I want is for every client to use the DNS server in it's respective site or domain. Easy enough, through DHCP. I want all clients to dynamically register A and PTR records with the DNS server in it's site or domain, and those RR's should replicate to all other name servers in the forest. I want every DNS server to be able to resolve names in it's domain, parent domain, and sibling domains. Then I want unresolved queries forwarded to our ISP's name servers. I want to use AD integrated zones, and secure DDNS. So, do I create just one zone at the root domain's DNS server, and include all child domains in this zone? Or should I create a zone for each domain, and delegate authority to that domain's name servers? Also, would it be better to configure forwarding to our ISP's name servers, or use root hints to let our servers do the work?

Quote: Pathetic x) x) Why is that? I have all my domains up and running perfectly now. It had been a while since I set up DNS zones so I bounced some ideas around with Clutch, and of course that helped greatly. Have you been able to help anyone EVER? Quit trolling and conform, or better yet, just go bug the Yahoo forums, types like you are always welcome there.

Ok, it seems pretty cool in a gee-wiz sort of way. But I don't think it will eliminate labels. It only burns in the unused portion of the writeable side of the disk. Sure it looks cool, but it isn't of much practical use imho. I'll still buy a Plextor.

Pop-ups? Oh wait, lemme turn off ad-blocking here... Yep, there they are! 8)

I haven't run dcpromo yet, but I've got DNS working perfectly now. One zone with all domains, replication only between specified nameservers, forwarders to the local ISP. Thanks for the help, and I love your new sig.

I'd be full of pent up rage too if I had buttery nuts!

Sorry about my mistaken nomenclature regarding child1.com vs child1.parent.com, I hadn't had my coffee yet! Hopefully we will have all legacy machines upgraded by the time the servers are ready, so I may not need WINS at all. Let me make sure I understand properly. First, I set up DNS on the parent.com domain controller, with all child domains in the same zone, and replication should ensure that all nameservers have info on every system in the forest. I set up DNS on child1.parent.com, and allow replication only between it and parent.com, to reduce traffic. (we are not a 24/7 operation, so I will schedule AD and DNS replication to take place overnight.) I set up forwarders on each DNS server pointing to our ISP's nameservers. Ensure that RR's for parent.com do not point to our public address. Repeat for other child domains. I'm pretty sure I have this straight, it really isn't that complicated, but I want to get it right the first time and not waste a lot of time troubleshooting. I have heard that some people prefer to let their nameservers use root hints for external name queries, rather than forwarding to the ISP's DNS. Supposedly it eliminates one step and can increase performance. Is this a better way? Or will all the extra recursive queries be a burden on our DNS servers? Thanks for the info!

I knew you'd be the one, Clutch! One empty root domain, parent.com. 3 child domains, child1.com, child2.com, child3.com. Child1.com has about 60 systems, and is in the same site as the parent domain. Child2.com has about 100 systems, and is connected via WAN link to the parent domain. Child3.com has about 300 systems spread over 5 sites. 4 sites in child3.com are connected via WAN links to the central site in that domain, which in turn is connected to the parent domain via WAN link. These links are between 128k-384k. Each site also has it's own high speed connection to the Internet. I've been reading up to refresh my DNS knowledge, and am leaning towards just putting all domains in one AD integrated zone, and listing all DNS servers as authoritative for that zone, and letting each DNS server use root hints for unresolved queries. What do you think?

Use gpedit.msc and set password expires to 0.