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Amazingly they seem to have altered the printer properties on the server, but even so, I'd like them to have no properties ever - even just for that session. How do you guys do it? Cheers.

Some of the lovely darlings here have decided to change the printer to print in mirror and negative. I've had a quick look through group policy management but can't find how stop them altering the printer properties. Anyone know how to do this? We're using XP on a 2003 network and they only have "print" permissions to the printer. Cheers.

I've mainly used SuSE over the years, but gave Ubuntu a try recently - I hated it and went back to SuSE. People online are up in arms that Novel have ruined it, but I just see it being better with every release. Am I dillusional?

Treesize is pretty good.

Try BootlogXP it will give you a graphical breakdown on how long every file and service took to get running during the bootup process.

Can you remember if it said why?

It looks like the new Microsoft XP Shared Computer Toolkit free add-on may solve all these problems. It's got some great features, but the one that jumps out is the ability to 'lock' your computer's C: drive so that any changes made are lost during the next reboot. Setting it up will take time though as you need to re-partition your systemdrive so that you can devote 10% to a special partition. If it truely works as Microsoft describe then this should really mean the end of viruses and spyware.

I thought that I was getting RSI a few years ago, but when I researched it, most 'experts' said that RSI from keyboards and mice was incredibly rare if not impossible. What you are more likely to have is just a general pain from either reaching too far for your mouse or not sitting at the right height for your table and not a long term RSI problem. Make sure you are comfortable and follow the general guidlines for workplace practices and you should be ok.

Yup, I concur. Version 3 has some kind of live 'backup thing' so that database corruption and the like should not happen again. Also all violations are rated from 0-100 now, so being able to choose to only see violations above 50, for instance, really cuts down on a lot of the false positives. I still have issues with some of the words they believe are violations though - especially many of the sports car names are also drug slang, so they show up a lot needlessly.

I think that apart from the "GPL violation" claim, the rest of your points were that it just wasn't very good software. I don't think that that warrants the "officially spyware" thread title. Maybe it should be "N2H2 is officially crap", that would keep everyone happy

Hey guys, I think it's about time that the name of this thread got changed There is certainly a 'grey area' at minimum, and possibly the company has been completely exonerated. So, the title is unfair on the company, as some users may just browse the headlines without reading the content and will be unaware of the debate within. Maybe one of these instead: N2H2 is unofficially spyware - on a massive scale N2H2 may not be spyware - on any scale N2H2 ROCKS!!! BTW it's nothing to do with me, as I'd never even heard of them or the product before.

Yes, the fan being hit was the reason I haven't even bothered testing out the "deny all except" way of doing things. Is anyone one here doing that in an AD XP network?

So, do you basically "Deny *.exe" apart from the following - winword.exe, etc, etc.?

This is still a problem for us. We use the "software restriction policies" mentioned above, but it's a never-ending process. Stopping the "Windows Installer" helps, but it would be nice to stop the other installers from running, there only appears to be 4/5 of them. I don't know if it's possible to, for instance, stop the "InstallShield" installer from running. That would be a major breakthrough I think.

I don't think that defrag.exe comes with 2000.

I guess that we'll all be using Sharepoint pretty soon since Microsoft will be withdrawing public folders from Exchange 13 onwards

Yes. I believe that they were called "Capita".

We've had this problem in the past too, looking on line there are loads of people with it. As far as I remember, people usually reported that finding updated drivers for their NICs solved it, but for us disabling DMA on the harddrives solved it. We only got the error when copying large files >100MB.

We've been using Second Copy to back up files for a few years now. Initially we thought it was great, but we're getting more and more frustrated with it's failings. I'd like to know what programs people are using for backups to file. I know that a lot of you will be using XXCopy or Robocopy, can you get a simple log file of just a summary plus errors with those?

Sorry Geoff, we're back to "This network connection does not exist" with this one. The fact that it's a local printer is at root of the script problems I believe.

Oh dear, that causes an "Expected end of statement" error at the end of the first set of double quotes. I feel guilty about taking up all your time with something that won't even benefit you. Maybe I should concentrate on making an MST instead after all

Ok, still no joy. I've copied it locally to an XP machine and run it there. I get the following error: Line: 8 Error: This network connection does not exist Am I reading too much into the error message in assuming that this code will only work for network printers? Here is the current script: Option Explicit Dim objNetwork, strUNCPrinter, bForce, bUpdateProfile strUNCPrinter = "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" bForce = "True" bUpdateProfile = "True" Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") objNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection strUNCPrinter, bForce, bUpdateProfile Wscript.Quit

Will do Geoff, thanks. The printer name is "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer"

No, XP SP2 on a server 2003 SP1 network. Office 2003 SP2 too.

Sorry to be a pain Geoff, but I'm getting the following error: Line: 4 Char: 1 Error: Variable is undefined: 'bForce' :oops: