DrPizza

Look at this hilarious IRC flood attack. Does that DNS name look familiar to anyone? Syracuse, NY? Why, it's our good friend APK! 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I *thought* that you couldn't even do *that*. I don't think that Server will upgrade an installation of Professional; it's clean reinstall time.

No.

Boo! The sooner NT 4 MCSEs have to take the [harder] Win2K MCSEs, the better, IMO.

That counter appears when you terminate certain core Win2K programs (LSASS springs to mind).

Quote: In control panel, Users and passwords tab is gone , how do i get it back?! win2k advanced server And also when I share a partition, I can't see other computers, and I want to know what to do to see them? Win2K AS never had it in the first place. Out of idle curiosity, why are you using a $3000 OS, without knowing how to use it?

No, Win2K uses namespace extensions so that it can display useful information within the Temporary Internet Files directory from Explorer -- that's how its "details" listing is special (it shows what site a cached file came from, and so on). If you use a shell that doesn't use the namespace extensions (e.g. File Manager, cmd, 4NT, bash) then you can see inside the TIF directory.

Tools -> Options -> Directories. Ensure that the "executable files" set of directories includes the directory that cl resides in.

Makes no difference here whatsoever (which leaves me unsurprised). There seems to be no evidence of anything even reading such a registry key.

Quote: Originally posted by dbgg1979 - is it possible to use task scheduler to shutdown my windows on a certain time? Yes. Quote: - also .. can i use it to disconnect my internet connection (dialup-modem)?? If non-Server versions have similar capabilities to Server versions, yes (I know that there's a command-line tool that enables such actions to be scripted for the Server line of OSes, I don't know if that same tool exists on the workstation/home lines). But something tells me you meant to ask not "can I?" but "how do I?".

The problem is, some [many] programs will respond differently to an empty value as opposed to a non-existant value. If I read a REG_SZ from the registry and it's simply not there, the API call will respond differently than if I read it and it's been set to an empty string. In the former case, I might use a default value -- but I probably won't put in a check to see if it's merely empty (it's reasonable to assume that if the value exists then it's meaningful, no?). If the intent is to delete, then you should make certain to delete.

The "@" symbol merely means "the unnamed (default) value". It has nothing to do with the ability to delete keys from a .reg file. Setting values to a blank string is not equivalent to deleting them.

I'm guessing that turning off the "friendly" log-on screen will restore this functionality.

Quote: Originally posted by Widow I tend to keep runing the following services: a few I could probably live without, but then I have memory to spare. COM+ Event System (Pretty much essential) If you're using COM+. Quote: Distributed Link Tracking Client(Can be turned off but the way I move stuff around on my drives its safer for me to leave this on) Only functions within a domain. If you're not using a Win2K Domain, it does nothing. Quote: DNS Client (Pretty much essential) Event Log (Not essential but great for troubleshooting) That you can't stop it when it's running should highlight that you shouldn't turn it off. Quote: Logical Disk Manager (Not essential, but I have many partitions and turning this off seems the precipitate the system wanted to rearrange drive letters for me...) Hm, it shouldn't, unless you change the drives/partitions in the system. This service watches for changes to the disk configuration and responds to them (and has some roles in dynamic disk management). If you're using normal partitions and don't regularly change them then this service should be redundant (except for when you're configuring partitions in the disk manager thing). Quote: Plug and Play (Not essential but I tend to feel safer leaving this on) This is indeed essential; MS says that disabling it can result in system instability, and they are not lying. Again, the fact that you can't stop it once it's running should draw your attention to its importance. Quote: Protected Storage (Another non essential but I leave it on just the same) P-Store probably isn't needed, though some things like certain parts of IIS require it. Quote: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (Pretty much essential) Entirely essential. Quote: Removable Storage (Pretty much essential) Nope. This is only useful if you have CD or tape jukeboxes. Quote: Security Accounts Manager (Not essential but logons seem to take longer with it off so I leave it on) Disabling this can seriously ruin your day, as a number of services require it to be running in order to work correctly (though they don't list it as a dependency). Again, the inability to stop it once running suggests it's more important than an average service. Quote: System Event Notification (Pretty much essential) Nope. It's required for some things like detecting if your network cable is unplugged, but it's by no means required. Quote: TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service (Pretty much essential) If you're using NetBIOS, this is essential. Quote: Windows Management Instrumentation (Pretty much essential) Windows Management Instrumentation Driver Extensions (Seems to come on whether manual or automatic.) Yes, these two go together, and should be left alone. Quote: Workstation (Pretty much essential) If you're using networking, yes. Quote: Of all the services I have on I set them all to automatic, some were set to manual but would come on anyway. In order to speed up the windows logon its just easier to set them to automatic. This doesn't figure. Leaving them set to manual means that they'll only start if and when needed. Most of them are unrelated to login. Leaving them manual reduces the boot time, because they're not loaded until some time later. This is particularly true for some of the things like, for instance, the WMI Driver Extensions service, which are used internally by the OS more than by the user.

Quote: The difference? I don't see it at work in something I can use. He does not do GUI development as he stated above, showing me he is limiting himself based on his principles alone. GUI is where the money is, GUI is what users want! ha ha ha. It's funny that I make more money than the guys doing the work on the front-ends, then, isn't it? Quote: We've seen it, evidently, he has not. He is as you say, probably working with workstations, exclusively, & not large transaction processing based systems is why & ones that create ALOT of temp tables etc. & scratch areas. Creating & Deleting files is a killer, & causes this in conjunction with append or insert queries in the database realm at least from my experience. No, 'fraid not. I gave rough details of the testing I've done; doing real queries on real databases (amongst other things). Large sequential transfers are incredibly rare, pure and simple.