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Just got rid of that this morning on an XP machine - have to give credit where credits due though

Is this a manually made My Documents icon, or the one created when you right-click My Documents on the Start Menu and choose Show on Desktop? If it's the latter there's no way to prevent it being deleted, but it can be restored every logon if you use roaming profiles and implement (under Computer Configuration>Admin Templates>System>User Profiles) "Prevent roaming profile changes from propogating to the server"

Thanks for that BoX, worked a treat

I've tried Hidecalc on Vista and it worked fine

I use Hidecalc: HideCalc - A Tool for Hiding Drive Creates a custom .ADM Template with the drives you request hidden. When using it however, remove any of the standard windows group policies for hiding drives as confusion occurs.

Thanks for these scripts guys, will try them out when I get home tonight

Hey all, I'm in need of a script that I can use to share alot of folders all in one directory. I have the following for example: net share = /CACHE:no /GRANT:domain\user,READ|CHANGE|FULL but obviously this requires me to type in each folder name, anyone have a script for automating this? Any help appreciated.

Cheers for that Andrew C, they both share the same 5a/250v so we seem good to go

Hey all, stupid mistake I know but was fixing an HP Compaq 6720s and now cannot tell the adaptors apart - I have a HP Compaq Preario V6642EM laptop. It states that the adaptors should only be used for HP and Compaq laptops so I assume there's no trouble in using either, but just want confirmation. They appear to share the same specs e.g. 65watts etc. Just to be safe I looked up HP's partsurfer as both adaptors have different "replace with hp spare" numbers but the site gave me a parts number that matches neither so I can't determine it that way.

Finally got a minute to look it up myself, everything I needed I got from here: Windows Explorer Folder View settings - Vista Forums Apparently this is a known problem but no-one knows what caused it.

Thats what I was trying to explain in my first post, thats the method I use but it still immediately forgets it

Hey hoping if someone can solve my only real annoyance with Vista. Does anyone know of a way to force Vista to use the same view settings for a folder? I prefer to use the Tiles view and as usual go to folder options and apply it to all folders, only if I close a folder then open it again, it reverts back to Details - or any other view for that matter. Anyone know how to fix this. I'm on Ultimate SP1

Thanks for the help, gonna check out the data sheet for it soon. Unfortunately, the shape of the laptop is chamfered in to the base so when its set on say a bed it just sinks in and the fans get blocked, not a lot I can do about that. Here's its pic to show my point. Will I not void my warranty by opening it up? http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Images/c00668289.jpg

I was worrying slighty cause my fan is now making ALOT more noise than it usually does, mostly a clicking sound, I'm not sure if the blades are hitting against anything but its bloody annoying. Btw its a Compaq Presario V6642EM AMD Turion x64x2 1.9Ghz 2GB DDR2 RAM 160GB Fujitsu HD

Running SpeedFan now and its stating Temp1: 54C and Core: 61C i havent changed any settings in the program

Whats a good temperature for a laptop hard drive to be running at, both idle and under stress - mines at 23C and then anything up to 47C, im assuming thats prob to hot but not sure, any ideas? thnx

Could someone post a example script for this? I'm having a little bit of trouble getting it to go. Just restating, I want to batch share (hidden) users home directories which all exist in the same parent folder and set the following permissions: Jonny - Full Control Domain Admins - Full Control username- Full Control Staff - Read The foldername is always the same as the users logon name and creating a share with the folder name would be grand. Thnx in advance for any assistance.

Cheers got a hold of this wee tool now, try it out later.

Sempron 3300+ (2.0Ghz) - 4.0 1GB DDR RAM (133MHz) - 2.5 GeForce 6100 - 128MB Dedicated bout 2.x in scores 250GB (7200RPM) HD 5.4 Had it going on an old motherboard with a Geforce 4 MX4000 with no Aero, was and still is comparitively nippy, not as good as my new lappy though. AMD Turionx64 x2 TL-58 (1.9)Ghz - 4.8 2GB DDR2 RAM (333MHz) - 5.6 NVidia 7150m 128MB Dedicated - 3.3 for Aero, 3.0 for Gaming 160GD HD - 4.7 Installed some early beta on a: AMD 400Mhz (Intel Equivalent) 320MD SDDRAM 14GB HD (4200RPM) Some wee ATI 8MB Graphics card Needless to say 10 seconds to open Documents, speaks for itself.

Anyone know of a script that will allow me to set home user drives as a hidden share and set the share permissions? Disabling caching would be a bonus too. I found this at Win32 Scripting.... Everything you need to get up and running '==================== 'ShareSetup.vbs 'Author: Jonathan Warnken - [email protected] 'Credits: parts of various other posted scripts used 'Requirements: Admin Rights '==================== Option Explicit Const FILE_SHARE = 0 Const MAXIMUM_CONNECTIONS = 25 Dim strComputer Dim objWMIService Dim objNewShare strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set objNewShare = objWMIService.Get("Win32_Share") Call sharesec ("C:\Robot", "Robot", "SCOT SHARE", "POSTerminalUsers_GG") Sub sharesec(Fname,shr,info,account) Dim FSO Dim Services Dim SecDescClass Dim SecDesc Dim Trustee Dim ACE Dim Share Dim InParam Dim Network Dim FolderName Dim AdminServer Dim ShareName FolderName = Fname AdminServer = "\\" & strComputer ShareName = shr Set Services = GetObject("WINMGMTS:{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Security)}!" & AdminServer & "\ROOT\CIMV2") Set SecDescClass = Services.Get("Win32_SecurityDescriptor") Set SecDesc = SecDescClass.SpawnInstance_() 'Set Trustee = Services.Get("Win32_Trustee").SpawnInstance_ 'Trustee.Domain = Null 'Trustee.Name = "EVERYONE" 'Trustee.Properties_.Item("SID") = Array(1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0) Set Trustee = SetGroupTrustee("Retail", account) 'Use SetGroupTrustee for groups and SetAccountTrustee for users Set ACE = Services.Get("Win32_Ace").SpawnInstance_ ACE.Properties_.Item("AccessMask") = 2032127 '2032127 = "Full"; 1245631 = "Change"; 1179817 = "Read" ACE.Properties_.Item("AceFlags") = 3 ACE.Properties_.Item("AceType") = 0 ACE.Properties_.Item("Trustee") = Trustee SecDesc.Properties_.Item("DACL") = Array(ACE) Set Share = Services.Get("Win32_Share") Set InParam = Share.Methods_("Create").InParameters.SpawnInstance_() InParam.Properties_.Item("Access") = SecDesc InParam.Properties_.Item("Description") = "Public Share" InParam.Properties_.Item("Name") = ShareName InParam.Properties_.Item("Path") = FolderName InParam.Properties_.Item("Type") = 0 Share.ExecMethod_ "Create", InParam End Sub Function SetAccountTrustee(strDomain, strName) Dim objTrustee Dim account Dim accountSID set objTrustee = getObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}!root/cimv2:Win32_Trustee").Spawninstance_ set account = getObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}!root/cimv2:Win32_Account.Name='" & strName & "',Domain='" & strDomain &"'") set accountSID = getObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}!root/cimv2:Win32_SID.SID='" & account.SID &"'") objTrustee.Domain = strDomain objTrustee.Name = strName objTrustee.Properties_.item("SID") = accountSID.BinaryRepresentation set accountSID = nothing set account = nothing set SetAccountTrustee = objTrustee End Function Function SetGroupTrustee(strDomain, strName) Dim objTrustee Dim account Dim accountSID set objTrustee = getObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}!root/cimv2:Win32_Trustee").Spawninstance_ set account = getObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}!root/cimv2:Win32_Group.Name='" & strName & "',Domain='" & strDomain &"'") set accountSID = getObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=impersonate}!root/cimv2:Win32_SID.SID='" & account.SID &"'") objTrustee.Domain = strDomain objTrustee.Name = strName objTrustee.Properties_.item("SID") = accountSID.BinaryRepresentation set accountSID = nothing set account = nothing set SetGroupTrustee = objTrustee End Function Any help on how to personalise it for my network would be a bonus, not musch of a scripter myself. Thnx in advance

I'd be tempted by Server 2008 myself, alot faster but you've got a high end lappy there so Vista should be grand, it's really not worth the hassle putting on XP just for the basic tasks you've outlined, if you were gaming and a game didn't run on Vista then fair enough but it's not worth paying for XP when Vista is fine for all that stuff - I got a HP Compaq Presario V6642EM for Christmas and bought an upgrade to Vista Ultimate - would never look back at XP anymore. I VM alot and the fix for copying folders is the only improvement that I needed for home use.

Cheers for the responses Gatt. worked a treat.

I haven't even made any OU's yet on my test box at home, just wondering how to do it, can't find anything in the built in help files, would have thought so tbh. Can you access this from it's properties? sorry not at home so can't view it.

Just wandering how you delete an OU with the "Prevent accidental deletion" box checked?

It's called an opinion. The same way the people who voted for it liked it. Did Extras win any awards? Twas better