Recent content by dragontales

Got my Achieva last night. I am very happy with it. Will try to post some pictures later.

I know my specs are somewhat old but win7 runs really smooth on my system.

Check out "Deep Freeze". It returns the pc to any pre-determined state set by you.

We ran demos and test when Vista came out. We decided that it wasn't worth the upgrade at the time. We stuck with XP pro at work in our domain environment. Looking back it was definitely the right decision because it saved us money and XP pro has remain relatively stable with SP3. Now we...

I've had this issue with a few of our desktops. We are running domain on server 03 and xp pro clients. I was never able to figure it out. It only happens when I upgrade the desktop to IE7. Go back to IE6 and the desktop boots up again. Weird eh? The only solution so far is to set the user...

How do you go about creating a desktop shortcut for "All Users" via GPO on Server 2003? Thanks.

Suggestions anyone?

I guess my last option is to set the users up with clean images, which I am trying to avoid.

This is the setup: Windows 2003 DC using AD and group policy Workstations are all Windows XP SP3 All workstations are on DHCP The update worked sucessfully with 95% (maybe 300) of the desktops using WSUS Only about 10-20 desktops are experiencing this "stuck" issue Things I've tried...

The most likely culprit are your map drives. 11 mapped drives seems to be quite a bit. If any one of the 11 map drives are having trouble, it will cause your "my computer" to search and search and search. What I would do is delete all the mapped drives. Add them back one by one. Open my...

We have a wsus box running as a vm. It's was originally a physical box until we did the p2v. So far it's being doing pretty well. As some has mentioned, just make sure the settings in your GPO are correct.

It's quite simple. Go to the AD and locked their account.

Cool.

Just keep in mind these are 5400rpm drives. Good deal still.

Google combofix. Run it in safe mode.