Ryan

I've always liked: Two fish in a tank. One says to the other "Any idea how to drive this thing?" *gets coat, hails taxi*

OT, but i've just noticed that OP's name is Sir W*nkalot backwards. How very droll

Have you installed a horse recently? Are you able to pop the casing off while it's running to see if any cables are rubbing against fans? Or could be a dodgy hard disk.

As an external option, for about £35 a year you could get a web server then set them up with FTP accounts, subdomains, the full whack. Very separate from your internal network and won't use up your bandwidth/resources etc. You may prefer something internal, something to think about though perhaps.

Buggery. Been reading the linked page above, looks promising - shall go and have a crack at it on a test PC.

Comprehensive and useful article on pagefiles for XP, 2000 and 2003: at petri.co.il Awesome site, bookmark it if you haven't done so already.

ROFL!! I LOVE that they duct-taped a toy to the wall too, how thoughtful

Few machines here are going nuts with svchost.exe too. I'll give it a few days and let WSUS do it's thang.

Semi-decent PC with ISA Server on it?

i get this sometimes - power off, reseat everything, then boot up (checking BIOS on the way) normally sorts it. I almost had kittens when i powered up my home machine and one of the HDDs didn't appear Sod's law it's the one with all the important stuff on it...

Let them bill you.

Another vote for VLC, plays everything.

lol!! For the purposes of the joke i'll assume he's wandering about in the US somewhere ...

Ello Tosh

I'm trying really really hard not to laugh really really loudly at that

I'd probably get rid of the doubling up if you can. Edit your scripts so you have the common drives being mapped, then any additional user-specific mappings applied afterwards. Dunno why you're seeing this problem though, never had experience of things not getting mapped for anything other than temporary network connectivity blips.

Just when i was getting used to the idea of a few days of minging weather, it's lovely here today Not sunny, but bright and still. There's always tomorrow...

LOL!!

...then you don't have to come back here to harvest the replies? I'd say post 'em here and get a discussion going, which, afterall, is the whole point of this place... Unless there's a compelling reason for keeping your thoughts from other EduGeek members, but who on here wants that?

I'm shocked and slightly disgusted that no-one's mentioned X-Com: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown in europe). It's about 15 years old, and i'm still playing it to this day. It's been re-made and re-hashed so many times since, but nothing can touch the gameplay of the original. I lost a few summers as a teenager to Sensible World of Soccer (Sensi with management, buy and sell players, awesome awesome game).

Getting very windy and rainy up here (Aberdeen). Been told to expect very bad winter storms.

Cute as a button. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0

It's only a profit if you don't spend it

lol, i would have said Dundee

Posting a solution (of sorts) to this after finally diagnosing it. I've been in WSUSadmin for a couple of days configuring and fiddling, and after coming back from lunch, the admin webpage (WSUS 2) was down. So i checked Outlook web mail access, and sure enough, that was dead too. Long story short, it turns out that Backup Exec's rxWriterSvc service was chewing through NPP (non paged pool memory) resulting in IIS refusing any further connections. To check this, use Task Manager's Processes tab and do "View > Select Columns...". Add Non-Paged Pool and sort on that field to find the offender. Problem was remedied by running "net stop rxWriterSvc" and "net start rxWriterSvc". Then i restarted IIS. Everything hunky-dory now, access restored to both WSUS and OWA. Hope this helps someone.