Recent content by StevieM

That's working now, thanks

Thanks, that was a big help. I think I am almost there but having issues combining the 2. For the ping part, if I run the script below I get the appropriate response... START Option Explicit Dim strHost ' Check that all arguments required have been passed. If Wscript.Arguments.Count < 1 Then...

To be honest I have nothing. My scripting experience is VERY limited. I have tried downloading a couple of scripts but nothing has done what I needed it to do.

I am looking for a script to do the above. I have a couple of remote machines that I need to know immediatly if they go offline. Can anyone help?

x86 Still cannot get it to work!

ANy ideas, would downloading SP1 and installing 'overwrite' the problem and leave the laptop working? I really do not want to re-install this laptop as it a LOT ofr stuff on it (none that affect vista updates tho :-))

I am full domain admin, with full local rights. Tried manually installing the failed update, did not work. Have not manually installed SP1 as saw ona couple of sites notices that it could corrupt if there were failed driver installs

I have worked through a ton of these from google, no joy

I have a user who has had an issue for 6-8 months but has only told me now!! Running Vista Business. They cannot install any updates. The notification icon is in the task tray but when you hover it says "Windows can't check for updates". If you go on and ask it to check, it returns an error...

Wolluf, the profile for the user has a .dat AND a .man file. Is this usual?

Easiest way ever... USB VHS Player http://www.firebox.com/product/2108/USB-VHS-Converter - - - - - - - - - - - - - Careful. We don't want to learn from this! - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Sorry of I did not explain fully. I can login as the users no problem and I know the admin password to the PCs, what I not able to do is change the desktops and scrennsavers for the users with mandatory (local) profiles.

HELP :) We have a number of stand alone XP pro machines that have had local users setup with Mandatory profiles. The person that did this has left the company and left no info at all. I need to change the desktop and screensavers on the machines for these local users but then still have them...

I am running Exchange 2003 and all the users mailboxes are on the one server. However we have one user that at randomly is not getting their emails from other users on the same server. The error is always... "Could not deliver the message in the time limit specified. Please retry or contact...

Is it possible to have excel configured so that when a spreadsheet is printed it will include a header (in this case the filename) by default, without having to go into each file and setting this up?