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I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned nircmd, a tool that can set volume, mute/unmute, write and delete values and keys in the Registry, write values into INI file, dial to your internet account or connect to a VPN network, restart windows or shut down the computer, create shortcut to a file, change the created/modified date of a file, change your display settings, turn off your monitor, open the door of your CD-ROM drive...

JavaRa can uninstall old JREs and fix other java problems. Also i've used this vbscript in the past to remove all Java versions in one pass. strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _ & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_Product Where Name LIKE 'Java%'") For Each objSoftware in colSoftware Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objSoftware.Name Wscript.Echo "Version: " & objSoftware.Version objSoftware.Uninstall() Next remove the wscript.echo lines and it'll remove all java silent...

Let me put it this way: Backup Exec is, and always has been, a powerfull but also complicated product. I've used it since version 9 (now on 2012) and i'm still overwhelmed at times. That said, we had WAY more bugs/problems when it was still Veritas. Not a month went by where we didnt hav to fix mysterious bugs. Right now its pretty stable and does its job. In fact, a year ago after a disaster, we've succesfully done a complete restore of all our domain controllers, exchange servers & some member servers within 2 days...

Aside from turning of the screen and the HD after 20 minutes, we disabled all power options through GPO, including sleep, hibernate, stand-by, etc... Whatever you do, stay away from offline files, it won't fix your problem & will cause you other headaches without end.

Just untick "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" on the NIC power mgmt properties

[/url]markbayliss, the bad news is that (i dont think) Libraries will update if you move folders or migrate servers. You'll have to update or delete & re-create the library folder. The good news is that you can use SHLIB , SLUTIL x86 or SLUTIL x64 to script the updating/adding/removal of Libraries. For example, to create a new library called Software: shlib create "%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\ Libraries\Software.library-ms" To add folders to a library: shlib add "%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\ Libraries\Software.library-ms" "C:\Software\Microsoft" You can also use Powershell to update/add/remove Libraries.

This is the RTM version number of Forefront TMG 2010.

too bad...ISA server toolkit doesn't install on Forefront TMG 7 on Windows 2008 R2 Servicepack 1 The latest version (1.4) is from July 2009...somehow i doubt it'll be updated anytime soon...

So...is this (http://www.redline-software.com/pub/tkSetup.exe) a free tool? or a 40 day trial, like it says on the download page

be carefull, conhost.exe is also a legitimate windows process in windows 7, it handles drag & drop for console windows. What is conhost.exe and Why Is It Running? - How-To Geek

We took a different approach. Instead of disabling public folders and/or removing libraries, we redirect the "Public documents" (and Common pictures, movies, etc...) folder to our Shared drive, much the same as redirecting My documents to their network home share. This way we have the best of both: You get to keep the libraries functionality for both "My documents" and "Public documents" You get to keep the "Public documents" functionality, except it's now on the network Shared area.

strange, i've been routinely doing this for years and shortcuts in the startup-folder still work.

It's really just a single Robocopy command: robocopy.exe "E:\Shared\Documents\Staff" "E:\Shared\Archive2009-2010\Staff" *.* /S /COPY:DATSO /MOVE /ZB /NP /XA:RHS /XF *.ini *.ico /MINAGE:365 /R:2 /W:10

If you already have WSUS: Local Update Publisher allows system administrators to publish their own updates to Windows Server Update Services using local publishing. LUP allows you to * Publish applications to a domain or workgroup. * Create rules to define install behavior. * Monitor progress of installations. * Use WSUS groups for approvals. * Utilize existing WSUS architecture. * Support multiple parent and child servers. * Import and export standard update catalogs.

start of each year, i run a RoboCopy script that moves all files older than 356 days from \\server\share to \\server\archive. Users hav read-only access for one month to \\server\archive so they can copy back things they might still need. After a month, \\server\archive is removed from the network and archived to DVD. To keep them from just copying everything back, there are file quota's in place and file screens that disallow photo's images, movies and other stuff. For that we have a youtube-like server.

RemoteUnlock doesn't work under Vista/Windows 7. I used it too, untill we switched to Win7 last year. But if anyone knows another tool that works in win7...

lets look at it another way: Are you really sure you want to deploy an application from a vendor/programmer who can't even properly handle different locales/time formats? That's crap programming if you ask me. if mm/dd/yyyy is the correct format for your country/region why change it to mm/dd/yyyy and confuse users, and possibly even create problems in other area's or applications. And, you wouldn't change your valuta notation from £ to $ or € would you? (finance would probably lynch you! )

hidden/system files?

Ok another thought then: Do you have the GPO setting "Delete user profiles older than a specified number of days on system restart" enabled? (under Computer configuration\Administrative templates\System\User profiles )

@ ianh64: Just out of curiousity, what antivirus software do you use?

ianh64, just to be sure, are the computers hanging after entering login credentials, or do they hang before the CTRL-ALT-DEL screen? Perhaps i should have mentioned that in our case the problem appears before users can login...

All i can say is, we've always had sleep/hibernate turned off but have the issue nonetheless. Meanwhile i also found out restarting the Multimedia Class scheduler and/or Shell HW detection does not always bring the machine back to life. On machines where i disabled autotuninglevel the issue did not come back, but then again this might be coincidence... All in all i didn't get much further, quiet the contrary... Btw, are you seeing events 6006 (Winlogon) in the application eventlog?

Since a few weeks we have seen this issue too on random computers. There are quiet a few similarities between your environment and ours: We too use Dell Optiplex (from 745 to 780 ) running Windows 7 Pro, we use 2008R2 servers and Forefront TMG. To get a hanging computer to respond again i've done the following: -Start services.msc on another computer, connect to the computer in question, -Check that the "Multimedia Class scheduler" and/or the "Shell Hardware Detection" service are running. You may find that although set to start automatically, they're not running. Starting them immediatly makes the computer respond again and continue to the login screen. To permanently fix it, i've had success with: -Start a command prompt as Administrator -Type "netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled" -reboot I have no clue whatsoever what these things have to do with each other or why these services do not start (no indications or errors in eventlog) but this is what fixes it for us.

Do his excel files contain macro's?

Oh and btw, just noticed it does have a preview in Outlook!