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For months I've been fighting two problems, on two different systems. I finally made some headway that I should pass on to those who tried to help resolve them.
One is a problem with unreliable printing on a WinXP network. Shared printers would work for a while, albeit badly, then stop responding. I finally solved it this week. In the Add Printer wizard you are offerred a couple of ways to assign a printer. Using the \\hostname\printername method is the first choice in the list, via a tree directory, so that's the method I've been using. Bad choice - it doesn't work. Lower down the list are the hosts on the network, each with a sub-entry for its shared printer. Selecting those shares solved the problem completely, though I have no idea why.
The second is my home Win2K server. Since the last Windows Update it has been freezing up - no errors, no events, no Dr. Watson - every two days or so. Yesterday I talked with my ISP, and he's been plagued by the same problem, both on his servers, and on his customers' PCs. The one thing they all have in common, without exception, is that they all have SP1 on IE6. For all of them, the problem started when SP1 was applied. He's tried to roll back the SP, but that corrupts IE6, and the Add/Remove Programs 'Repair' option disappears, so he has to reinstall the entire program from scratch to recover. It doesn't appear to make any difference which version of the OS is running, either - WinXP has a much improved error handling system and usually doesn't need to be rebooted, but it does stop and restart explorer.exe when IE freezes the system. It's not yet a solution, but it seems to be an explanation, at least.
I'm going to ask him to survey his customers to see if we can determine whether there are any who have IE6SP1 who have not experienced the problem. Maybe we can figure out a resolution that way, since MS hasn't ackowledged it or provided a fix yet. Or maybe we'll find out something completely different - who knows at this stage? It could be something in his network interacting with IE... If anyone's interested, I'll post the fix, if any, when we find it.
Thanks to all who have tried to help with these problems previously!
Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003
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I *think* I've installed IE6SP1, but I use Mozilla as my default web browser, and haven't noticed the problem you mention, so It could be a case that IE has to be used lots until it eventually bogs down and dies.
Have you tried just leaving your computer on, but not using it at all, to see if it crashes when unattended and unused?
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benjymous wrote:
Have you tried just leaving your computer on, but not using it at all, to see if it crashes when unattended and unused?
Yup. It does. 
Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003
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I notice the Power Management functionality ("SpeedStep") for Intel mobile CPUs has been "built into" WinXP and the controls for it removed from the user. Does anyone know if it is possible to change the settings somewhere in the registry?
Starbeee
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Hi everbody.
This time I need help about FTP service in IIS.
I have a folder "c:\Publications " that I want to open this folder to FTP connection. And anyboby would put his/her publication to it without promting any user name or password. Also could not delete none of the items in this folder. People could reach my web site (in my computer that works XP proffesional) and it works without any problem.
thanx all previous answers.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
karanba
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Well
1) First make a virtual directory called anonymous in you ftp root which should point to c:\publications. you can do this from ISM ( microsoft control)
2) in ISM find out who the anonymous user for your web site is. say its IUSER
3) Not open explorer c:\
4) For Publications directory give write/read access to IUSER but only on that directory and not to its children.
Having write permission on that directory IUSER can upload and read files. But not having write permission on the children of that directory i.e. files and sub folders ... he can't delete any files.
Swarup Das
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How could I disable task manager from other users.
OS: XP professional
karanba
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You could take the easy way out and remove the taskmgr.exe file from the system
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
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Doesn't it disable to use task manager also for Admin group. I want to do it only for normal users.
karanba
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Try right clicking on it and playing with the security settings.
Remove the read/execute rights for everyone by the admin group. That might work.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
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How can I luck my session instead of log off or switch user. I use XP professional.
karanba
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You can "lock" your workstation, by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Delete, then hit Space or click the "Lock Computer" button.
Chris Richardson
Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete only gets Task Manager Window.
karanba
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That's not how it works on my machine. Did somebody configure your machine (like system administrator)? You can also try "Window Button"+L.
Chris Richardson
Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith
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Definately sounds like his system has either been locked down or altered, maybe a custom GINA?
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
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It's different in XP. You need to turn off the new flashy login screen in order for C+A+D to work as it did in previous versions of NT. (You might have to do something else too, maybe disable fast user switching too, not sure)
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Ok turning off wellcome script get the C+A+D options back.
thanx all...
karanba
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Hi,
I want to take simple statistics who use my computer.
My OS is XP professional. I want to take every logon session
user name
time log on
time log off
and pass them in a xls file or even text file.
I much more about know jscript than vbscript.
thanx.
karanba
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You can enable log on and log off auditing and then read these events form the event security log of the event viewer.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
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Well, I want to do this to learn how to run wsh. If I get how to make a simple job like this I would go ahead on the subject. I learn how to take the user name and domain by using WScript.Network object and enviroment variables and could show them to a simple window. But I need an example
*that open a file or DB connection to write in and close.
*how to get sistem time
*and how to make a script to work at log on and log off ( I do not want to put the script shortcut to the startup).
karanba
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karanba wrote:
*that open a file or DB connection to write in and close.
Here is a quick and dirty example of some VBscrip used to open and read from a DB
strDSN = "FILEDSN=Distrib.mdb.dsn"
Set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cn.Open strDSN
Set rsDistrib = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strSQL = "SELECT TCountry FROM CountryCombo"
rsDistrib.Open strSQL, cn
Set objCountry = rsDistrib("TCountry")
'=== start do
Do Until rsDistrib.EOF
theCountry(indCountry) = objCountry
rsDistrib.MoveNext
indCountry = indCountry+1
Loop
cn.close
karanba wrote:
*how to get sistem time
Try this:
msgbox Time()
karanba wrote:
*and how to make a script to work at log on and log off
In Windows 200 (and XP I belive) you can set the machines policy to run a logoff as well as login script. Sending data to DB should not be hard here since they support WSH in these scripts. Windows px would require a utillity to be installed that would provide this functionality. Windows NT you would have to write your own GINA library to manage the process of login and logoff. Not a trivial task.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
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We all know that if you have a CD, you can put an Autorun.inf file in its root and perform some magic whenever the CD is inserted.
It seems, though, that in certain situations, Windows XP and Windows Me supress this auto-run. Namely, if you are in the middle of installing a Plug and Play driver, the CD won't auto-run.
Is there any way to force the CD to auto-run anyway... or to auto-run as soon as the new hardware installation has completed? Any ideas here? I can't find jack in MSDN about this, but I'm still looking.
Thanks.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Windows XP backup returns:
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:80042301<br />
Reverting to non-shadow copy backup mode.
Do you think I could find an ounce of documentation on-line as to what exactly volume shadow copy does, how it does it and why it might fail and what 80042301 means? Nope.
Any OS geeks here have any documentation on hand or expert know how on the subject of volume shadow copy and backup?
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I repaired some virus damage last week on a client's network. All was working well when I left, but today the report reached me that the dialup networking status box is reporting three times as much outgoing traffic as incoming. That's a new one on me! This cutsomer is reluctant to spend actual money to renew his subscription for NAV, despite the low cost, and I am unwilling to spend any more time on this problem until he does, but I'm still curious to discover what might cause this symptom. The only suspicious thing I found on the system was Napster. I know that they're defunct, but could his network still be sharing files over that link? What else could cause this inversion of incoming/outgoing packets?
I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.
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I have a file, which I know is there, but I have no way of seeing it.
Like the man on the stair 
As I was using Windoze XP
I met a file which wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish it'd go away!
Well, I know it is there, because reading the MFT in a binary disk editor reveals it (I'm using Runtime's DiskExplorer for NTFS - a brilliant package I can't recommend highly enough). I also know it's there because if I try to create a file with the same name, I get the following errors:
"A file with the name you specified already exists" if I use Windows explorer to
rename a file. 
"Access is denied" if I try and copy a file to this name in the command prompt window
or in the recovery console. 
So, it exists. I see it on disk, and Explorer, Command prompt and Recovery console
all agree. The file is there.
But I can't see it in Explorer, or in the command prompt window or in the recovery console! It just plain isn't there!
Yes, I have set the options as follows in the explorer:
"Show hidden files and folders" is set
"Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" is not set
As a consequence I can see everything on my disk! Everything that is, except this one file!
What could cause this? How can I patch the MFT and/or root index entries (it's in the root directory) to make it visible? What deep dark mysteries of the NTFS are are work here.
It has only 3 MFT attributes. They are:
$10 = $STANDARD_INFORMATION<br />
$30 = $FILE_NAME<br />
$80 = $DATA
according to DiskExplorer (I've not attempted a manual decode of the MFT entry yet - DiskExplorer does it for one). It data is non-resident, it has but 1 run. More info gladly provided. What I'm fishing for is an understanding of what can possibly make a file so invisible.
Oh, "CHKDSK /R" is finds no problems with it. It's a healthy file. Just an invisible one.
Any clues? Any further tools useful in learning or diagnosing?
For anyone eager to understand the possible origins of such a bizarre file, it is the logical offshoot of the problem described in this thread:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1040090780[^]
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