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What OS and what format (FAT32, NTFS, etc...) did you have in 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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Hard drives are always partitioned, even when there's only one partition covering the whole drive.
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I don't know of a compelling reason to partition it that way. Why not 15G and 15G? Modern filesystems (ie, not FAT16) have no trouble with a 30G partition.
--Mike--
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Mark Sanders wrote:
Does it increase performance?
No. Older versions of Windows allowed only 256 directories in the root directory, and this practice may be a holdover from those days. NTFS5.0 has no such limitations that I know of. Because so many programs install stuff on the root directory whether you want them to or not, I prefer to reserve the C: logical drive for Windows itself and all the garbage programs that don't allow an optional install point, then to install everything else on a different drive. This causes no performance hit that I've been able to detect, nor does it improve performance in any measurable way. It's just cleaner, and easier to restore if (when) a crash occurs.
It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003
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For most workstations...the simple principal is to install an OS partition and a user partition. OS files stay on one, and user files on the other.
Linux has been doing this for years. Perhaps some pc mfgrs are jumping on the bandwagon.
Frank
"Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
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They must feel it helps organize the drivespace for you.
If it works fine, fine.
As soon as it starts going flaky, slowing down, crashing, etc,
first thing I'd do is repartition it into 1 partition and reinstall the software.
BTW, we had a 6Gig drive arrive partitioned as 2+2+2Gig.
Obviously they used FAT16.
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Where in the registry can I find the information about which is the default mail client in a machine / profile?
Thanks so much,
-- narada
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Check out HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Mailto\Shell\Open\Command .
I think that will do what you want.
Good luck.
- Dana 
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Super!
Thanks so much, Dana!
That seems to be what I needed!
F
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Am I able to replace my Win 2000 Profesional with Win 2000 Server on my computer through installation/upgrading, while leaving everything that's already on the machine intact?
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No, I don't believe that is possible.
"We will thrive in the new environment, leaping across space and time, everywhere and nowhere, like air or radiation, redundant, self-replicating, and always evolving." -unspecified individual
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In FAT12 & FAT16, every directory has a . and a .. subdirectory.
I seem to remember that this goes back to the old MSDOS days. Anyone know what they are or what they are for?
I'm building an embedded system to read Compact Flash cards and I've got most of the other data about FAT tables etc, but I can't find a refernece to these two directories. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ali
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The "." directory is used to reference the current directory, while the ".." directory is used to reference the parent directory of the current directory.
Chris Richardson
C/C++ Include Finder[^]
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How do you disable and/or block the windows Messenger pop-ups from sending you spam in winXP? I don't use this function for anything. It's just a back door for spammers to tick me off. Please Help.
"You only disagree because you're a moron. If you were a man of intelligence you would see that I'm obviously right." - The General Consensus
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Try disabling (stopping and setting to manual) the 'Messenger' Service.
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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I want to execute a .wsf and .vbs file on a win2k box from a linux box. This script will take hell lot of parameter as well. How do I achieve this quickly. The process must not be interactive i.e should not ask for password.
I want to run this from a linux box and it should just execute the command silently.
Swarup Das
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I am sure there are more practical ways to do it, but for achieving it "quickly", the fastest way I can think of without any real code to write would be to automate the process though SSH.
I would really think about what you want to do to accomplish this, as there are SIGNFICANT security implications if you do this wrong. Anyways.... here would be a simple way to do it:
1) Install Cygwin[^] on the Windows 2000 box and ensure you install the OpenSSH daemon.
2) Set up your SSH daemon to run as a service in W2K. There is a good article on how to do that here[^]
3) Set up your SSH keys so you can SSH into the Windows box without the need for a password with the use of SSH public key authentication. You can learn a bit on how to do that by reading here[^].
4) You should now be able to execute the scripts on the W2K box by automating the call. As an example this might work for ya:
ssh user@w2kbox commandtoexecute
CAUTION: Be careful to understand the implications of setting up SSH to your server. Make sure you have clean ACLs and limit the privileges in what the account you are SSHing in can do. If you require administrative access to run the script, consider using the runas command to do this so that you only elevate privileges for the execution of the script, and nothing more.
P.S> I found the runas command to have some issues under bash in cygwin, so you might have to tinker with this for a bit.
Good luck!
- Dana
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Hello,
I use WinXP Pro. Sometimes CD-ROM Drive disappears???.
I have to go to "Device Manager"->"Scan for hardware changes" then CD-ROM Drive appears again. I don't know why !
Please tell me how to avoid this problem.
Thanks so much
TUI
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A virus or other program has changed the language on all my common controls, whenever anything displays text in a window for the control; dialogs, window titles, save as, etc. the language is germanic. I would assume that this could be fixed in the registry etc.? A virus did this, I have re-installed windows, but the file or entry is still not getting fixed. Has anyone seen this problem and know the registry entry or file(s) to fix to get my language back to English on all the common controls and windows text/messages?
Thanks.
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When you re-install Windows, it seems to do a good job of detecting and preserving your previous settings. That's unfortunate in this case. Try using the Regional Settings applet in Control Panel to reset the settings for your preferred language. This applies specifically to Win2K, but I believe other versions have a similar function. As an afterthought, you might also want to check the startup files (config.sys, win.ini, etc) for a CODEPAGE= command. You shouldn't need one, but if it exists it may override the Windows settings; try REMing it out.
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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Hi All,
I hope this is the right spot for this question. I need to restore the configuration of a computer to its fresh out of the box state. The person who own this machine has (naturally) lost the accompanying disks that belong to the machine. However, I've found the C:\Windows\Options\CABS folder appears to be intact.
Does anyone know how to restore a machine with the contents of the stuff in the CABS folder? Or, better yet, make a bootable rescue disk out of this?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Aaron
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The CABs folder holds the files that are usually in the \win95 (or \win98 or \winme) dir on the CD, so you can just put that whole directory on a CD and install from it. (Note that there might not be a setup.exe there. Some OEM CDs don't have setup.exe - you have access to the CABs to install other Windows components, but you can't do a fresh install from the CD.)
--Mike--
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I have no idea if this is in any way possible but,
I was wondering if it's possible to get the complete hardware list which is used when
detecting new hardware, so all possible hardware supported by windows.
I know microsoft has a hardware compatibility list online, but since hardware detection
uses it also, it has to be somewhere inside the system, my question is Where and more important can I use it in my own programs
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The database is the INF files in \windows\inf I don't know about reading them, though.
--Mike--
The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.
-- Strong Bad
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My really out-of-date homepage
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I have some customers who have a problem with Windows displaying the wrong character set in various MS common controls. ie. Print Preview, File Open.
This happens in all apps that uses these controls. In XP I found Control Panel|Regional and Language Options|Advanced lets you choose a language for non-Unicode programs to use to display menus and dialogs. One customer is using W2K, and he managed to find the same setting there, but it was already set to "English".
So has anyone seen or heard of this problem and know how to fix it. ie. Get the normal english text back.
Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com
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