Recent content by Inaris

tell me what you know about the network? are all sites linked together? Do you ahve admin access to all the machines? what code base is your login script? where the manually installed or do you use a software installer program like SMS/altiris/Zenworks? I have several ways in mind depending...

The only way to truely protect you data is to encrypt it using a strong thrid party tool. PGP is pretty nice as it does the job well, and at not much cost. There are starting to be a few full drive encryptions applications coming to market that will also do this. Basically, encrypt your whole...

this is how you do that: http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/09/hide-user-accounts-from-windows-xp.html sounds like your trying to get her into trouble :)

Actually, Ikernal is the installshield script engine. The application will run mutilple times, it's the MSI engine that will hang. If you happen to have another install/uninstall hang, kill Ikernal not msiexec and it should either resume or terminate.

not to rain on your parade, but imaging a machine that has joined a domain will cause you a ton of problems down the road. If you need to install anything that is on the domain, as long as you can get on the network (i.e. plug in get IP) you can pass credentials to the network. So adding to...

sorry for not responding for a few days... seems that the thumbnail view was the problem for part of it. Do any of the files have really long names? also, to find the thumbs file, you need to enable hidden files view. what you can do is: open CMD.exe cd driveletter:\ cd folder\folder (to...

do you have a thumbs.db file in that direcotry? also what view do you use? Thumbnails or something else? if your using thumbnails, switch to details and see if that does anything different. Also, if you can't open the dir (which I know you've said) use command prompt to delete thumbs.db

what kind of files are you dealing with in that directory? are there a lot of them? say more then 1000? are they images and your view is thumbnails? I can't find much that might relate to this. so I need some more info. what OS are you on and what version is it? SP included...

user your XP cd and boot to recovery console. Run Chkdsk C: /f /r /x reboot after and see if it works.

can you check your version of NTDLL.dll. there are some issues with ntdll.dll 6.0.2800.1106 that I'm finding ...

From my experience, I would go with Seagate. This is based soaly on my experience with other vendors. Not only are they the most stable drive I have ever had, but they offer a 5 year warranty...

there is an event log entry created from the check disk. Can you post what it says? start->run->EVENTVWR select the application list, and look for a winlogon entry. Copy the contrent and past it here...

My budget for the server is $2000 - $3000. the disk array stuff, I'm trying to keep everything under $5000. Server will be setup to manage a few databases that I'm using as a learning tool as well as be my primaray digital storage location for everything from pictures and video to emails and...

how about a macro that does it for you? create a macro that you can load the run on each one. I don't think there is a way to do it for all at once, but that would take out the pain of repetition... at least a little...

phase 4 and 5 are the longest. 4 does data checks that depending on actual volume of data can take a while. 5 does physical disk integrety checking...