Recent content by xyrx

That's a pretty cool utility... thanks!

Hello all. I'm not a sysadmin, but I am a 2nd level desktop support tech attempting to find a resolution for our sysadmin who insists that the desktop support team do some of his work. His major complaint is that with all the computer renaming , deleting, and new computer names coming up on...

Our company has had a 37% - 39% hard drive failure rate on our D600 Dell laptops, which obviously is way too high. Yes, some are probably due to mishandling, but a majority is happing on laptops that are never removed from their docking station, so... I can't see how it would be mishandled...

We have had a power outage several times during this heatwave in Sacramento, CA... and the last one last week has wreaked havoc on our file server. It's on a UPS backup power supply, but for some unknown reason, random files have had permissions reset to just local System and Administrator...

We run an old Oracle database that was never upgraded as time went on. Now that it's too late, we cannot upgrade, and must stay on the Mac under OS 8.6 or OS 9, using old Oracle client software. We are working on totally annihilating our old DB and doing a new one from scratch, but that will...

Hello everyone, I've come here in the past for advice on how to support our aging Mac's in a California state agency. The advice I receive here is excellent, seeing as I have no Mac experience prior to this position. Having said that, we are looking to start mac emulation on our PC's. We can...

Hi all, I know this is an old OS, but my department is relying on OS9 for another year, until we can dump it. I'm setting up a server running Filewave 4.x, and it's going to have 260 clients connecting via IP or appleshare. My co-worker is telling me that OS9 only supports 10 users (whether...

I'm not a Mac expert, as I just started working with them 18 months ago, when I started my job with a state agency. We have a database application running on Oracle Developer 2000 1.2.2 (yes, from 1996). This appliction was developed on OS 7.5.3, and works great on OS 8.6 . However, we...

Yep, sorry forgot to mention that. We did try that.

We just got our shipment of Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard & Professional for our agency. One of our guys wanted it quick, so we installed it on his machine first. Soon after, he discovered that any images he inserts into MS Word XP were invisible. You could click on where the image is, and see the...

So I would just clear this key? Also, since it's in the \\HKCU key, how can I make this global, since HKCU applies on a per-user basis? I'm thinking of transferring the Startpage key with just an empty Favorites value into HKU\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer . What...

Well I found a website that described the exact steps to prevent the Windows Media Player 7 icon on Windows 2000 from re-appearing on the desktop for each user that logs in (applies for Media Player 10 on XP). http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/tip3600/rh3634.htm I hunted around in the registry for an...

This is getting irritating. I've been working on a Sysprep image that would cover 4 different desktop models that we have throughout our agency. I'm basing this sysprep image off of a Ghost image that was for one specific model of these desktops. The ghost image would have a completely blank...

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We have a Win2k3 server with 2 network cards installed. We originally planned on using the 2nd card to load-balance, but because we had ongoing WINS issues, we decided to flat-out disable the 2nd network card, and re-build the server with all services utilizing the only enabled network card...