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Not absolutely sure but I think this is "working as designed" - you really need to have UAC turned on. When you go to write a file to (eg) c:\program files UAC should pop up saying "are you sure", you say yes and you're allowed to write (simplifying a bit!) As @synack; says, if you turn off UAC then you don't get the prompt and you're not allowed to write. What are you trying to do? If you want something to be automated (and thererfore the UAC prompt gets in the way) then you can enable the administrator account and use that - this account can make changes to the file system without prompting.

I think the big problem for you with that shed is the line "This requires an adult to sign upon delivery" :-)

Wow! That is going back a bit. Omnigraph came from Software Production Associates, originally from Leamington Spa (hence, I think, the clever "SPA" name) but later in Tewkesbury. I think they merged with/were taken over by AVP. archive.org finds SPA: the best in Educational Software and a phone number of 01291 637 300 and [email protected] but I don't think AVP are still trading (the website doesn't work) http://web.archive.org/web/20080506230720/www.spasoft.co.uk/demoomnigraph.html has a link to the demo download (link works; 30 day demo installs fine on x64 Windows 7 so should work on anything!) If you can't get Omnigraph, take look at Gnuplot. It's far, far more complex than Omnigraph but you don't have to use everything - eg plot sin(x) plots a sine curve so it's not too hard to get started.

With great difficulty! In any large organisation it's likely that there is no tight control over who can have a website and there will be lots set up for particular projects. I wouldn't be surprised to find that websites exist for things which happened years ago and the website was just added to an existing server (so no real ongoing costs). I assume that the domain name won't expire if it's a .gov.uk because you're not going to have to pay an annual renewal fee. A quick check says there are 368 public webservers in our DNS and we're a relatively small university. When you have huge government departments I think it's very easy for sites to get lost in the cupboard :-)

The £21m quoted in that report is for the NHS site and is for "non-staff" costs so I'd guess a big chunk of it is the actual hardware, data centre etc. but the Register report says Capita were given £60m for 3 years so I presume it's "non-staff" because the staff aren't employed by the NHS. Capita aren't cheap but I don't think they're the most expensive of this kind of company. I have no idea how much it costs to run a website with millions of visitors - particularly one which has to at least try to be very secure - so it's hard to say if this outrageous or good value for money. You can't compare it to a school website run on Joomla and managed in odd bits of time by a few people. Is anyone here involved in managing a very large website?

This is the first time in 14 years that a hosepipe ban has been considered for the North West (I could say it's all because the Tories are back; no hosepipe bans under Labour but that would be silly :-)) so it's hardly "every time we have a dry couple of weeks" The big deal with the Spanish (and many other countries) is that they're more careful with their water - in the UK we wast vast quantities of it (and I'm not just talking about leaking pipes). I'm sure they do wash their cars but you see far fewer people out in the street with hoses washing down cars, for example. Although some industrial usage has gone down, I think other use has gone up (how much water is needed to wash potatoes and carrots for the supermarkets, for example?)

You can't - the authentication is handled by the server and you don't get the password. What you could do is collect the username and password using a form (on a page accessible without authentication). You then check that password is valid (I do it by trying to bind to that username in AD using the username and password) and do whatever after that. Might be a daft question, but why do you want a user's password? It's not generally a good idea :-)

There was a big queue outside the O2 Shepherd's Bush tonight (Brad Paisley) Sadly, it's sold out both tonight and tomorrow so probably no point queuing there - you won't get in and they don't have any phones :-)

Pretty sure that's an Intel chipset (I think it's ICH9 but there's about a million HP G61 machines on their website!) They don't seem to provide the drivers - I'd guess they don't expect people to need them (you don't for Windows 7) - but you can download them for another machine. Go to: HP EliteBook 2530p Notebook PC - Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver - HP Business Support Center (if the link doesn't work it's the HP2530P; choose XP and then the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver) Download that and then extract it (open it with 7Zip or just let it run; it starts by extracting files to c:\swsetup) In the winall\driver folder you'll find the stuff that needs to go on a floppy for F6 during the install. That may not work; I'm guessing the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive (but you're laughing if it does!) and not all USB floppies will work with XP setup (don't ask why; it's just one of those things that MS do to make my life a misery :-)) If it doesn't work then look up nlite integrate AHCI drivers and make a new XP boot CD.

Can you post the script? Should be easy for someone to see the logic of what it's doing and then say "that looks OK" or "Oops!"

Oops! Just realised that what I typed earlier is garbage! Save this as a text file (eg resize.txt) select volume 1 shrink desired=85000 and then put diskpart /s resize.txt in the batch file - ie you create a script of the commands you want and then call that from diskpart with the /s switch.

Don't remove $hf_mig$ but you can remove any of the $NtUninstallKB925876$ type folders. Take a look at http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2000-2003/49413-clear-space-server.html for other ideas.

I suspect the script sending the email is reading the password age and if it's greater than (say) 80 days, is sending the email. What it needs to do is check "is the 'password never expires' set"? If yes then skip this user else check the age and send the email. That way users who have password set to never expire won't get confusing emails. I'd be interested to know what your auditors have to say about a principal with a non-expiring password!

In short, no :-) The longer answer is that you don't rename it as a DC - you dcpromo it to a standalone server, wait a bit for replication to take place, rename it, wait a bit again and then dcpromo back to a DC. An alternative is to just give it a DNS alias (so the actual name of the server is NewServer but you have a DNS alias which says it's called OldServer). If you do that then remember to disable strictnamechecking (Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name - I'm sure I did this yesterday!) The final alternative (but it's too late now) is to never use server names for critical shares but to setup DFS. You then get things like \\\softwareinstall rather than \\\softwareinstall and when the server changes you just update DFS and clients magically find the new server.

That will work but, depending on bandwidth, it might not give a good experience! If you can find command line equivalents for what you're trying to do then those will work with psexec and will be much smoother. Obviously not everything can be done from the command line but lots of things can and it's worth investigating.

I'm assuming Windows 7 so run diskpart and type list volume this will show you the volumes on your machine (for Windows 7, vol 0 is probably the boot volume - about 100Mb in size - vol 1 is the rest of the disc and vol 2 is the DVD but check; the volume number really matters!) In a batch file use these commands: diskpart select volume 1 shrink desired=85000 where the volume you select is the one you found.

You need to disable "strictnamechecking" - Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name and look at the Server 2003 section. Ping works fine - it checks DNS to get the IP address and that IP replies. SMB doesn't work because it gets the IP OK but when it tries to connect to it gets a response saying "I'm called " and it falls over; the registry change mentioned fixes this.

Pretty sure that HP will have done sums which say "it costs £x more to ship to/from country X than to ship within the UK but wages are £y lower so the total bill is less" and, just sneaking in politics for a bit, that's partly why there are so many unemployed people in the UK - they get paid more than people elsewhere in Europe or Asia and multinationals like HP can make bigger profits by not using UK employees.

It's no help, but our experience of HP support is that it's superb. You log a call on the web site and if it's something like a faulty hard disc then you get a confirmation within an hour that a new one has been shipped. If it's something where you need help then you get an email with suggestions of what to do pretty quickly (eg last week we had a new latop which appeared to lose its onboard NIC - their suggestion was to reflash the BIOS which worked and the machine is now fine) Dell is also pretty good but I'd guess every company has bad days when your job just gets lost somehow in the system. Things like BIOS passwords are difficult. I don't want someone stealing our laptops and then calling HP to get the password reset so I'd want them to require proof of ownership before they go anywhere with this.

I think England performed exactly as expected, just not as many people desired :-)

DLink DIR615 here and it works perfectly. It does everything I need and a nice touch with it is the ability to plug a USB hard drive into it and share it on the network.

Just remember that it's a very Catholic country so if you go at Easter pretty much everything is closed on the Sunday and Monday (but other than that, it's an excellent place to go)

That's why we should have ID cards :-) I'm sort of joking (because I don't think the proposed scheme was particularly good) but lots of countries do have ID cards and seem to manage OK without massive civil liberties infringements and it does seem to make life easier for them. There ought to be some easy way I can prove to an employer, bank or whatever that I am who I claim to be and then some way they can check that I have a right to work in this country, drive a car, buy booze, keep guns and so on.

This has been covered here a few times - eg http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/4756-script-install-fonts-workstations.html Alternatively, Google is your friend - search for script install fonts site:microsoft.com

That's interesting and, possibly, disturbing. Given that the new academies are funded using public money, I think we have a right to know what they're doing with that money. That might be trivial stuff like how many whiteboards they have but it could be more serious stuff (what admissions policies do they have, for example)