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    Settings Windows DHCP server as Authoritative

    I am going to be setting up a 2008 server with its main purpose to be a DHCP server to an apartment complex. Right now a Linux server is handling DHCP for the network. In the DHCP settings for the Linux server there is an option to have it announce that it is Authoritative for the scope, which...
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    Program for auditing software installed on computers

    Is there an affordable or freeware program out there, that could be installed on a server, and then would scan any networked computers for what software is installed, as well as come up with the product key? Periodically it comes up that a customer is worried about software compliance issues...
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    Copying old files from OS9 computer

    I have a customer that has a bunch of old files on OS9 machines. They have a SBS 2003 server setup for Mac shares. If an OS9 computer copies the files to the server share, other OS9 systems can open the files normally. Yet when an OSX computer tries to open them, it thinks they are unix files...
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    Anti Virus 2009 variant with nasty Rootkit

    We have run across three customer systems recently that have a fake anti virus variant that installs a tough rootkit. It knows how to disable programs like Combofix and Malwarebytes, unless these tools .exe are renamed. The first one I dealt with had a file I found named UACINIT.DLL. I had...
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    Multiple domain controllers, with parent and child domains

    I ran into a situation where there was four 2003 domain controllers, two in the parent domain, and two in the child domain. In trying to sort out some other errors, I found that one of the servers has multiple errors related to an old domain controller/exchange server that was removed from the...
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    Fake anti virus removal tools

    These are a group of tools that can be used to remove the various fake security and anti virus warning programs. Dial A Fix does not remove the virus, but it will fix restricted security rights that prevent someone from changing their display settings, which is a symptom with some of these...
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    Logon error after sitting at the Welcome screen long enough to have screen saver kick in

    I've run across an odd issue. When logging on to the system, running XP Pro SP2, if it sits at the Welcome screen long enough to go to screen saver, when it wakes back up and the main users name is chosen to logon, it will come up with an error saying "insufficient resources exist to complete...
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    Wireless connectivity odd issues

    More than once I have been to a customers site to diagnose a wireless connection issue and found no reason for it to not connect to their access point, only to plug the computer into their wired network, and then a short time later the wireless card makes a connection. I just ran into this...
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    SQL backup routines stop removing .bak files over time

    It seems that most of the SQL servers that I have monitored, that are using the built in maintenance backup program, over time, fail to follow the part of the plan that deletes old files after a set date. A couple of examples. One server, even though it was set to delete the files after a...
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    Internet Explorer option missing from Customize Desktop > Desktop Items choices

    We have been getting some new HP workstations with XP Pro on them. Normally I add the built in Internet Explorer icon to peoples desktop. But when I go to Display Properties > Customize Desktop > Desktop Items, the Internet Explorer check box is not even there. The link below shows how it...
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    Give all Forums a minimum of three pages, not 2 days of posts

    With the way the forums categories have been split up, it is tough to browse some of the smaller forums casually. Some of them can barely keep the first page going. The way that the forums have been setup they only display two days dates of posts. ie: on 7/4 you can see back to 7/2. I know this...
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    Any way to make the Archived posts Google searchable?

    I've created some posts that I have tried to find using the Google "site:" search feature to limit my query to look only at forums.anandtech.com. I have not been able find these archived posts using this method. Is there some way to get these old posts searchable from the outside?
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    Show the number of pages available for that forum

    Now two upgrades ago, they removed a feature that I found useful in forums that had a large number of pages available. It used to be that across the top of the respective forum it displayed 7? pages to click on. This feature is available in the individual threads themselves now, but I'd like...
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    Create a Gaming forum

    For the amount of times this has been asked for, I would have thought that it would have been one of the first new sub categories.
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    c:\windows\system32 opens on boot

    I was working on a spyware filled system, and was getting to the end of the clean up, when on a reboot, the system32 folder started opening up, on booting into windows. I've seen this in the past and tried what has worked before. Highjackthis did not see what it was. Even using msconfig to do a...
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    Windows update slows drop down menus and send to

    This is probably related to a problem I had with a customers system yesterday. In my case, HiJack This found some blank default Microsoft entries, and after I told it to fix those the system could browse for new locations in Word, Explorer, Internet Explorer or Excel. Another guy used Spybot...
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    Getting back to only the Administrator account in XP media center

    A helpful kid created his own user account on an XP media center edition computer (which XP OS version doesn't matter really). Anyways... In the past I've run into that once an account is created, in any sort of XP, that you cannot delete that user account when it is the last or only one left...
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    Security+ book search

    I've started looking into getting my Security+ certification. I have done other certs and was able to find good books that helped me pass them all. Reading various book reviews at Amazon and B&N, I'm having a harder time deciding this go around, since most of what I've looked at has generally...
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    Repairing system32\config errors

    A fellow tech guided me to this MS article. It's rather involved but I thought it was worth posting, if for no other reason than to show what can be done to repair a broken system. To have this work, the computer does needs to have the system restore feature turned on. A friend repaired a...
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    User profile web page question

    Someone posted an reply to a WTB post I have running in the For Sale forum here, and asked if I would be interested in some items that he had. I went to check his profile, and clicked on his "website". It eventually launched a porn video in Windows Media player. Is that appropriate on these...
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    XBox hard drive question

    I'm looking for a couple of hard drives in the For Sale Forum here. Someone wondered if I would consider some pulled Xbox 8 gig drives. His statement says "I have 5 xbox hard drives ( unlocked )" I know very little about Xboxes or their drives. Does whatever it takes to "unlock" them, have...
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    Servers stuck at "Applying Computer Settings"

    This started a couple of weeks ago. We had a customers server stuck at the "Applying Server Settings" logo after a reboot. They could still access their network folders and the main program they use. They had me leave it until they weren't so busy. I checked back periodically and found that a...
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    APC battery backup software problems

    Over the past two weeks we have had 4 customers servers slow to a crawl after what appeared to be a simple reboot. All of the servers sat at 'applying computer settings' for a long time. One server took over a day to get back into the desktop. They could access their network drives, and most of...
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    Found a way to download IE6 SP1 and keep the files for use on other machines

    This page describes how to download the entire IE6 SP1 install file for redistibution in a network enviroment. I followed the directions, making a change to the run statement to reflect my hard drive c:. When it runs, it asks you what Windows OS's you want to download. I chose all four. Later in...
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    Files hidden from view in Windows explorer

    A few months ago I ran into a fine piece of spyware. It could hide the dll it was using to reinfect the system from being seen in Windows explorer, even with view all files turned on. It could be seen at a command prompt however. It was in the system32 folder. I wondered out loud, in these...
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    Create a Gaming forum

    Game/Gaming questions seem to have over taken the Software/Apps forum. All the game posts seem to bury the support question type posts when they get to the Software/Apps. Since the Game portion has grown so rapidly, their own forum would seem to be warranted Just some late night food for thought.
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    New VX2 variant

    I had a friend get his head handed to him by this new VX2. He spent a week on the system trying to remove it. Some of the spyware removal programs see it, but can't remove it. It stops CWShredder and Hijack this. It kills Giant Anti Spyware. Pest Patrol doesn't see it. Trendmicro and Panda...
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    Mobile Athlon CPU Micro ATX Motherboard Questions

    I recently acquired a dissected laptop (it came to me in as parts in a box). I'm not going to try and put it back together as there already was something wrong with it before they tore it apart. It has a Athlon XP mobile 1400 cpu in it. I was wondering if this CPU would work in a desktop board...
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    Mobile Athlon Micro ATX Motherboard

    I recently acquired a dissected laptop (it came to me in as parts in a box). I'm not going to try and put it back together as there already was something wrong with it before they tore it apart. It has a Athlon XP mobile 1400 cpu in it. I was wondering if this CPU would work in a desktop board...
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    Size displayed problems viewing a large network drive

    The basics of it is, is that workstations can't see the proper size and free space on a 203 gig network drive. The full explanation is at the link below. Networking Forum
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    Viewing large network drives

    The basic problem is that we can't get the workstations to see the full size of a 203 gig network share properly. The link has the full explanation. Networking forum
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    Viewing network drive problems

    I'm working on a network that we installed 2003 server. It has three physical raid drives. c: is 2 mirrored 36 gigs, D: is 2 mirrored 36 gigs, and E: is a 4 drive, raid 5, totalling 203 gig. All of the drives are setup as basic, not dynamic. On the workstations hooking up to the server, when...
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    Reading an old drive that was doublespaced

    Someone asked if I could get data off of an old drive that had been doublespaced. (They handed me the hard drive.) When I go to view the drive, the main thing it shows is a big file labeled dblspace.000. It is a 120 mb file. What little I remember/know of doublespace is that it is some sort of...
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    Spyware nightmare running as hidden service

    I've been working on a computer all week that has some sort of spyware running in the background. The system cpu idles at 15 to 20% in safemode or normal mode. Manually shutting off any service that shows up in the task manager won't kill it. I've run spybot s&d, ad aware, pest patrol, giant...
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    Spyware review results

    It seems well done, but I have not heard of their winner, Giant AntiSpyware. Has anyone used this program? Review
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    Netscape and Thunderbird email reply question

    When replying to email with either of these programs, where you begin typing your response is at the bottom of the box, with the original message above. I'd like it to start at the top of the box with the original message below the new one and I cannot find a setting to change this behavior...
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    How to hide a file from the Windows GUI and regedit?

    This link is to a post describing a fight I had with a tricky spyware. The file that was running and it's registry entry could not be seen in Windows or using Windows regedit. They could be seen using other methods however. The post has a better explanation. So how can a file be hidden from...
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    questions after an "about:blank" fix

    After pulling my hair out for most of the day, I found this link with instructions on how to find and remove the registry entry and the hidden file from the hard drive. What threw me was that things could be hidden from view in the registry and on the hard drive. I found the registry entry...
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    Linear and threading view problem

    When I go into a thread it is giving me the threading view, even though the linear view is selected. If I select a different view and then go back and choose linear, it is then displayed as linear. I checked this on two different systems, one XP and one 98, both using firefox, and it does the...
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    Firefox 0.9 occasionally crashes in forums

    This just started happening to me recently. It was doing it in 0.8 also, so I upgraded to 0.9, and it still happens. The message that gets sent to MS after the crash is no help. It had been working fine since the forums upgrade. I know that once in a while the text looks goofy loading a page...