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I know how to delete a string, but that's all. To do anything else you need to make an installer as far as I know. But then MS has all that automated deployment stuff - It could be worth checking out, as well as their msi compliler thingy...anyways here is an example .reg file. It just covers the stuff I learned accidently while reading a .reg file and I made it to remind myself. ----start----- REGEDIT4 ;example reg file, note how comments work ;File must start with REGEDIT4 alone on first line, then a blank line. ;@ means default - @ must have no quotes, and it's value must be in quotes. ;string - (alpha-numeral) ;to delete a string, set its value to -. string is in quotes, it's value is not. ;dword (binary) ;hex (hexi-decimal) ;make sure there is a linefeed/carriage return after last entry (leave a blank line at bottom) or it wont work properly. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\test-key] @="test" "string"="one" "string2"=- "dword"=dword:00000001 "hex"=hex:01 ; you can put a comment anywhere in the file, as long as its on its own line starting with a semi-colon. ; dont FTP .REG files using ASCII mode, as carriage return/line feeds will be converted to UNIX style on UNIX based Servers. ; Tip: to import reg files without dialog boxes (useful for batch files) run "regedit /s name.reg" (silent mode) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\test-key\sub-key] "sub-key-string"="keys must be done in steps" ----end---- The word wrapping stuffs it up a bit as does copy/pasting, but you should get the idea.

That's a process. I mean a service. convert - Of course! Overlooked the obvious again I see you still can't convert back to FAT16/32 though.

fatattack's tweak does speed it up slightly. It stops the checking for 'scheduled tasks' on other computers (what the hell is that for anyway?) you can also stop it checking for printers if you don't need that feature. BUT yes, both Win2K AND WinXP are definately slower at browsing that win9x. Anyone know why? additionally, XP is the slowest but I read on a microsoft news site that this is a bug and will be adressed in SP1

Does anyone know how you can anonymously share files over SMB, and still stop the guest acount from logging in [locally]. It would be nice if you could make SMB use its on guest acount like ftp does or something... any ideas?

Thats exactly what I needed. Thanks!