Recent content by flw

Need a solid book on Vista running on MS Networks and getting Vista to cooperate with apps to reduce end user input. Same goes for a book on Win2003 and Exchange 2003. Are the MS press books really any better or just reformatted/reworded knowledge base articles? Thanks for any help before I...

My older PC PIII500 192 RAM (Win2k with only task mgr running) is being pegged by the services.exe running around the upper 90's % and has my PC crawling for about 5 minutes. Any insights?

I created a floppy boot disk on a Vista Home Prem with the gui and another with cmd line (format /s). Both create the same error. "Command line interpreter is missing (i.e. c:\windows\command.com)" Then it goes to a a: prompt where no commands work. I get no errors when creating the boot disk...

One tool is a net work sniffer as mentioned above. But you have more than that and there is no single tool to discover all the devices and what they are. I'd suggest you try the following as a start and modify as your local permissions/authority and skill allow, including the order of the...

Since the hosts file uses ip I thought this is one place someone maybe able to assist me. Are there domains that by default, Windows hosts file is ignored? Like when attempting to block a site? i.e. 127.0.0.1 aol.com 127.0.0.1 www.aol.com This changes a ping response from "unreachable" to...

I just used lanspy and most are jetdirect cards. One device is not a jetdirect and has telnet running. How can I get it to display a banner or something other than just "Login:" ? I have the outside ip of our router but not the inside ip. There was a way, which I have forgotten, to get a...

Windows 2003 LAN with Exhange and a T-1 line comming in also Winxp pro SP2 clients. I have ID'd the routers and other misc devices in the closet but have a few unknown's. Maybe some have more than one ip bound to it? I have serveral internal ip's that I cannot determine what they are. They...

What features do you like most about Vista that is not in XP or just didn't work as well for Home or Business? Opinions?

I'm Physciallly disconnect from the DC but still a member. Do I only need to disassociate from the DC when disconnected to break policy? I can easily re-associate when I get back to the office. Then were do I look for the domain policy on a Vista Business local host?

On a Vista laptop that is on a domain with security policies, once off the domain, can I disable or remove the domain security policy?

BTW it does work with ICMP traffic via ping but not with other web traffic. This also works for most other web sites just fine. AOL is the problem so far.

On a windows box I'm playing with using a hosts file for a second layer for anti-spyware using one of the publicly available hosts file for it. Now it work fine as a second line of defense for that. I'm now trying to get it to work for web sites that I don't want other users to have access to...

Solution was to enable circular log setting in Exch Sys Mgr and then restart the "MS Exchange Information Store" Service. I've gone from 14.x GB to 65 MB of exchange logs that were kept in the program files/exchsrvr/mdbdata/*.log My DC can now breath. I have Win2003 whcih has circular logs off...

The server role (Win 2003 R2) is file, email/exchange and print with c: for windows and apps that insist on being in the root. D: for all user and other app data. I don't look as often as I should but in the past month or so on the DC, we used up several gigs of free space on our c/root drive...

So a full format (not a quick format) does not erase each of the clusters and only does the mbr & file index ?