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Hi
Open Windows Explorer. Select the "C:" drive.
Edit boot.ini file as it follows:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional installation on C" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional installation on D" /fastdetect
What you can modify in this file:
The number after timeout= represents the number of seconds you wish to display the boot menu.
So, if you choose 10, the computer will wait 10 seconds until it will boot the default OS which is in this case Windows 2000 Pro from the C drive.
The next line represents which is the default OS installation.
If your hard drive has 2 partitions and you wish to boot by default from the first partition (C drive) you can use the line specified earlier.
The message beetween " " it is what you see when your computer is starting.
So change only the message beetween " " with some text you like(as I did in my example if you like it).
Save the file. Please check that after saving it the file has the .ini extension and restart your computer. 
Disclaimer:
Changing boot.ini file without strong knowledge could lead to an unusefull computer. Do it on your own risk!
Mihai Z.
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mihaimedia wrote:
Disclaimer:
Changing boot.ini file without strong knowledge could lead to an unusefull computer. Do it on your own risk!
now thats funny. 
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Hi,
Doing the specified changes from my first answer is easy but if you play with something without knowing well what's all about you can really have a computer that doesn't boot anymore.
So I have added the disclaimer/notice in order to make aware of the risk.
happy computing
bye
Mihai Z.
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Thanx any ways.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Hi!
As a system Administrator(for security) I want to remove the sharing tab (used for folder and file sharing) from a User enviornment. I know we have to set some parameter in Registry. Please tell me exact parameter to set or remove to make it happen.
Is there any other way? According to my analysis it is the right which a user get by default. Hence I suppose above is the only way out
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my system cache doesn't work as it should be working!
when I install a big app then the cache gets bigger and bigger until the whole RAM is full. the last size before I had to press RESET was 919.000KB. The RAM was full and the system was writing everything to the page file... no cache was freed anymore, it just got bigger and bigger. what is going wrong with this sh*t?
Don't try it, just do it! 
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I suspect the executable may have been built with the /SWAPRUN:NET or /SWAPRUN:CD options. Were you trying to run this installer from the network? Was it an auto-extracting archive?
Windows also seems to need to read the whole of a large MSI file before trying to install that.
I normally copy large installers from the network to my local hard drive before trying to run them, but then my network is a bit flaky, and has failed half-way through an install before now.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Hi All - I'm running an Windows 2003 Server box and am hosting several clients' websites.
I am looking for a tool that will monitor banwidth usage by month (configurable start day for the billing month based on when the client signed up) in near real-time. It also needs to be able to minitor the bandwidth for each domain seperately and preferably put the website offline when their monthly bandwidth is exceeded.
I am using open-source/GNU for most of my server tools and I need a free tool for this.
Any pointers would be appreciated!
Glano perictu com sahni delorin!
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Ah, more fun behaviors from Windows! While cleaning up the C: drive this morning, I located old Admin folders from previous installations on the same drive. Not knowing whether it is safe to delete them, I settled for deleting the contents of the Temp folder and Temporary Internet Files folder only. So far, so good. But then, when I emptied the Recycle bin, Windows Explorer shut down and restarted! That, of course, removed all the icons from the System Notification Area for processes I know are running. I know I can hunt down, kill, and restart each app in Task Manager to restore the icons, but is there a less laborious method of doing this?
I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
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Yes: beat the developers of the software whose icons disappear around the head until they fix it.
Software that creates an icon with Shell_NotifyIcon should also listen for the message that Explorer (IE 4.0 Desktop Update and later) sends when it creates its taskbar. This is a registered message corresponding to the string TaskbarCreated.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Hey, someone else has read that section of the Shell Common Control docs too!
I thought I was the only one!
Steve S
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Has any one successfully installed Win 2003 (MSDN Download) on an Asrock K7S8XE+ MB. No matter what I try if fails when it get to the video. I have tried several cards even one old pci I had laying around. I have changed the video from auto to agp 1x, etc to no avail. (This was the only suggestion I have found online.)
I have no problems with the eval edition that was supplied with the office 2003 preview, nor win95,win98, win ME, nt 4 or win 2000.
Very frustrating.
I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
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It might be worth checking the ISO image with a tool like IsoBuster[^], or (if you wrote it to CD) checking that the file information on the CD is correct compared to the ISO.
We recently had an issue with Virtual PC where its network driver would cause a boot failure (Windows 2000) or complete failure of the network stack (Windows XP). It turned out that the driver was corrupted because Nero had written the disc incorrectly - busting the ISO with IsoBuster and installing from there worked fine. Note that this was not a problem with Virtual PC.
Interestingly, Windows checks the Link Checksum field in the driver SYS file when loading a driver, but not when installing a driver. You can install a corrupted driver, then only discover the failure when you reboot.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Mike,
Thanks for the link, good program to have.
Unfortunantly, no change for me. Still hangs when it get to the video.
I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
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Hi
can you explain or give a link about RAID ?
what is it and how does it affect performance of servers ?
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You can find a brief description here[^]. RAID 0 provides an improvement in performance, but no fault tolerance. RAID 1 mirrors data on multiple drives, providing fault tolerance, but lower performance. RAID 5 has always seemed the most useful to me, as it spreads data across several drives and can reconstruct lost data when one drive fails.
Will Build Nuclear Missile For Food - No Target Too Small
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thank you for the reply 
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Hi,
For a definition of RAID please see the link below:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html
why is RAID good?
For example it gives you the possibility to mirror a hard drive, to make a disk striping, to double the speed of the disk. But the features are dependent by the level of RAID that you choose.
Mihai Z.
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I've got a large amount of data (~11GB) that I want to copy, for backup purposes on a Novell server (copying to an NT workstation).
Unfortunately some of the files are corrupted and unreadable. This means that when the copy (just a straight copy using Explorer) gets to those files it just reports a failure and halts the copy. I can't delete the files and there are probably hundreds corrupted. Any ideas about how to copy the uncorrupted files (anything short of buying a backup utility)?
P.S. I'm not sysadmin.
P.P.S. I tried WinZipping the files because I thought that WinZip just skipped files that it couldn't read and reported them as errors but it didn't - it just stopped when it hit the first one.
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Hi,
Which version of Novell Netware?
how did you discover that the files are corrupted? Could you tell me the exact message that you receive?
Did you scan the disk for viruses?
Mihai Z.
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Is there any way that I can try connections on specific IP ports? Can you PING to a specific port?
I am having some odd behavior trying to connect using some VoIP equiptment to a server listening on port 5062.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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You can't ping, but if it's TCP you could try using telnet. This works best if it's a text-based protocol, obviously.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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You can scan the ports too, and check if this answer, I recommend NMAP http://www.nmap.org[^]. It's the better.
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hxxbin
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hi
i am writting a code for displaying meta data files of any NTFS partition selected. I have successfully completed the task,;P the only problem is that i am unable to interpret the date/time fields in many attributes like $STANDARDINFORMATION and $FILENAME etc.
These fields are of eight bytes each like creation/modification time etc. i am able to get the hex values but how to convert these into normal date and time format.
thanking in anticipation
kind regards 
fa
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I believe these are FILETIME structures: a 64-bit count of 100ns (that's nanosecond) intervals since January 1, 1601. You can use FileTimeToSystemTime to convert.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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