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2000 Because it's just as stable and compatible, it doesn't cost me more for upgrade cause I already have it, avi file deletion bugs in XP anyed me very hard in xp, and xp hides the status bar, I have to spend hours tweaking xp to make it like 2000 was, xp is too noobeed, the stupid search dog I have to reg tweak to get rid of, the bigassed icons in my computer eating up screen resources, can't see the OK button in display properties when the res is 800x600, can't share a folder with an acocunt that has a blank password, XP home is the only microsoft OS that can't logon to a domain, bloated , huge wizards and crap popping up all over the place, windows messenger installed by default and autoloaded, media player 7 is relly bad and xp does not ship with 6.4, dozens of extras unnecessary services started by default. There are my reasons. I've been using win2k since RC2 and have never looked back.

the problem is you are not supposed to "check the volume" sliders. You need to check the correct source for recording. Goto your audio mixer, click options>properties then click the "recording" button. and OK Now you have your ecording section. Under what would normally look like mute bottons changes to "select" Click the checkbox to select your source, probably Wava/directsound, or "What you hear" thsese slider bars set how loud to record at; they have no bearing on whether you can hear the audio or not. For example, you can record your wav source loud, but on the volume sliders, mute them completely. This is best way to rtecord form mic. Mute the mic, but set the record slider high and select it.

Mp3cutter Its free, small (standalone exe) and will cut it up ralnice, and increase the gain too if yuo want. Then CDex to convert them to wav. Cdex is GPL (free) too.

i want to move an acocunt from one container to another. When I create a new account I see the option to choose a container, but not for ones that are already created. Basically I have many that are in "unfiled" pretty much and want to move to specific group without having to delete/recreate.

yes I am trying to move accounts to different organisations. What I've got now, basically is OU's of Administration Tech Users Students Teachers Now, many acocunts were created (by the guy before me ) and created in the basic users container. This is a massive list. I want to move many of them from users to student, or from users to teachers etc. I was surprised from looking through the options that I did not find an option to do this; it seems like something that would be an obvious thing to want to do. What I've done in the meantime is painstakingly deleting accounts and recreating them in the appropriate container.

from run box do a sfc /scannow have the original install media handy. Then for giggles reinstall SP 3 after just to be sure.

Administrator can do everything to the pc.

You could use runas in a batch file and runas a power user. Change the icon to look like the valve icon, and hide extension for known filetypes. hopefully they wont notice it is a batch and take a peek at the password. You could also look into a program called "runas pro" it will let you run a program as another user, like power user or admin, but it keeps the password in question encrypted and invisible to the end user.

The kid that cracked the dvd encryption, allows you to copy the dvd from the disc, to the hard drive in unencrypted form. From there you can edit, recompress, whatever you want to the unprotected data. Cd drives cant read dvd's, nor cd buners. however you can author the dvd movie as a VCD or SVCD on standard CDR and RW disks. www.vcdhelp.com has all the info and free programs to do this, rip the unprotected stream to the HD and recompressa to a lower bitrate. Of course using mpeg4 (Divx) you can have much beter quality and smaller size, but will not run on most standalone dvd playing units. The web's ultimate DVD backup website is www.doom9.org, with a primary focus on divx, for making DVD R/RW backups, or DVD to VCD or SVCD, www.vcdhelp.com cannot be beaten. So, in a way, you can indeed use your existing burner to "Burn dvd's" but you must reencode it to a much smaller filesize and author as a vcd or SVCD. This may be what he was referring to when he said you can use your regular burner to burn them. You did not say that he said you can read them with a cd drive, just burn with a regular cdrw drive. And dvd rom drives are dirt cheap.

I need to be able to log, or send to a mailbox, all outgoing mail. the smtp server is the same machine runing exchange. I also need tolog or send to a mailbox all incoming emails. For security reasons the boss wants this done. Any idea how?

This is perfect. Thanks.

Yes you can. Just need the right utility.

Quote: Yes. Just delete it from your current server manager, and have it join the new domain. It will have it's own sid because it's a member server. However, if you want to give it a new sid, just for gigles, check out newsid from www.sysinternals.com that's it! Goto the server manager of your current pdc to remove it from the domain, not from the network applet. then in the network applet of the member server, you can join the new domain. It will prompt you for an account with permission that can add the pc to the domain, type it in. This will create the computer account in the new domain, you will not need server manager in the new domani.

OK time to edicate you all a little bit about how video works. The reason AVI wont stream is because it's index is located at the end of the file. The index holds such information as the frame rate , the codec used, and other crucial information. Since it's at the end of the file no workee without it. Mpegs have the info stored in the Gop (group of pictures) typiclaly a gop consisits of 10-15 frames or so. It can be higher but usually isnt. Each Gop is like a beginning a middle and an end; it contains all the information to play its own section. (BTW 15 frames is about one half second.) A broken file like a downloaded one, always starts with a complete gop (bnaturally) and is not broken until the end of the file. If the beginning of the mpeg file is cut in the middle of a gop, like you may see using a binary filesplitter, then the beginning of part 2 may start in the middle of the gop, and may skip some frames until it find the start of a new gop, or it may just crash WMP or not play at all. the way streaming filetypes work (rm, wmv, asf etc) The Index is at the begining of the file before any video frames. it tells the pc what framerate to play the movie at, the codec etc. Then then compressed frame data gets passed on one at a time, cached, played back, and then purged. Recording streaming audio as a wav will give you a lossless copy as the sound is indeed igital, and the recorder when using wav or directouind as source, will mirror it exactly. When joe shmoe takes this file though, and compresses it to mp3 after it will lose a little more quality, and will not be quite as good as the original. (Due to it being compresed server side, uncompressed(wav) and recompressed again. If Joe shmoe keeps it a wav though it will be as perfect as the original.

One thing I do know, regarding norton disk doctor, is when you scan active disks like c: or ones with pagefile or open files. it wont scan them online and requires a reboot to scan them. Then at reboot the normal chkdsk.exe scans it, same as running chkdsk. I too have always thought this was rather weak. Seeing as how all it does it call chkdsk for rebooting checking, I would not be surprised if that's all it does for realtime scanning.

Yes. Just delete it from your current server manager, and have it join the new domain. It will have it's own sid because it's a member server. However, if you want to give it a new sid, just for gigles, check out newsid from www.sysinternals.com

Do your nics support Bootp. If not you will need to make client disks to boot the macines. And the list of supported nics is quite small too. Whipping out your own dos driver/ris boot disk should be fun. If you figure out how, give us a buzz! best thing for ris really, if youre gona do it right, just get suported nics right from the getgo. And if not bootp, that's fine too, just supported so win2k will make your client boot disks fo ryou.

being able to record streaming data is not a bug. there is no protection for it. The audio card manufacturers will have to cooperate and have their drivers themselves refuse to record copyrioghted works. This is what m$ is working on with paladium. You won't be able to stream protected content, unless the audio driver is signed by microsoft, and it cant be signed unless it is programmed to work with the protection schemes. (BTW, I have used screen/sound capture programs to record streaming video files too. Capured to uncompressed, no loss of quality, then recompressed offline, for a minor hit in quality. And you say "WHy didn't microsoft think of this.." Well, they have. For now they are hoping most are not tech savvy enought to do it, not that there's anything they can do about it, anyways until somehitng like paladium is out.

Instead of unplugging, you could hold down your power button for 4-5 seconds. That will shut it off too.

That video card is plenty for those games @ 800x600. INstall new via 4 in 1 drivers and you will be fine I'm sure. (If you have already dopne that then i don't know)

Funny they don't mention sysprep. Does the same thing with respect to cloning pretty much.

Event viewer is your friend! Check it!

My servers had much traffic coming in from the internet so I tought I would sniff it out. I install ethereal (Open source) Ethereal then proceeds to tell me it will not sniff wan adapters on nt or 2k server. I was shocked. Why would they authors impose this artificial limitation, thereby stopping it from doing what it really is intended to do. So here I am today, calling on any programmers, to help out we the NT admins, to look at the source, and remove this artificial limitation so we can all benefit from a free sniffer. The retail sniffers cost a fortune. If anyone feels up to the task please let us know! P.S. It also is incapable of sniffing on a dialup (ppp) adapter, which I thought was odd. I noticed sniffe pro 4.5 also would not sniff dialup ppp adapter. If anyone has technical insight as to the lack of suport for pp adapters I'd like to hear about it, for curiosity sake.

Any takers? Ethereal and its source can be acquired here http://www.ethereal.com/

I edit and compress ALOT of media, so I was real quick to discover this problem in XP. I had avi files 20-80 gigabytes in size that I could not get rid of... imagine that...... Now I have time I will splain the lesser degree issue in win2k. The XP one is bad and locks it no matter what you do. In 2k you click the file and wmp previews it on the left. now, cut the file. (Cutting automatically previews too cause of the right click) Now, CLose the folder, and paste it somewhere else. It wont paste. WMP is still accessing it. NOw, go back into the folder and click another media file. The new media file will preview, thereby letting go of the original one that was cut. Now you can freely pastte the file that you cut. INterestingl;y, if you click on a fil, and hit delete , it will indeed delete fine (in win2k) but the cut procedure fails if you navigate out of the foler. evemn if you preview(click on) another media file in another folder, the previous one will still be locked from the preview generated during the cut operation. This is when I found the fix to enable classic folders (Someone from here tipped me off to this option I believe) and disable wmp preview funciton altogether. Now XP is a whole other bag. It combines BOTH problems, the cutting issue from wmp not letting go of previewed files, and the avi specific one regarding shmedia.dll. This, combined with the consistant disappearance of the status bar made me go back to win2k, in classic folder mode. It has been smooth sailing ever since.