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You could take the easy way out and remove the taskmgr.exe file from the system 
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."
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Doesn't it disable to use task manager also for Admin group. I want to do it only for normal users.
karanba
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Try right clicking on it and playing with the security settings.
Remove the read/execute rights for everyone by the admin group. That might work.
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."
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How can I luck my session instead of log off or switch user. I use XP professional.
karanba
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You can "lock" your workstation, by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Delete, then hit Space or click the "Lock Computer" button.
Chris Richardson
Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete only gets Task Manager Window.
karanba
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That's not how it works on my machine. Did somebody configure your machine (like system administrator)? You can also try "Window Button"+L.
Chris Richardson
Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith
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Definately sounds like his system has either been locked down or altered, maybe a custom GINA?
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."
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It's different in XP. You need to turn off the new flashy login screen in order for C+A+D to work as it did in previous versions of NT. (You might have to do something else too, maybe disable fast user switching too, not sure)
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Ok turning off wellcome script get the C+A+D options back.
thanx all...
karanba
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Hi,
I want to take simple statistics who use my computer.
My OS is XP professional. I want to take every logon session
user name
time log on
time log off
and pass them in a xls file or even text file.
I much more about know jscript than vbscript.
thanx.
karanba
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You can enable log on and log off auditing and then read these events form the event security log of the event viewer.
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."
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Well, I want to do this to learn how to run wsh. If I get how to make a simple job like this I would go ahead on the subject. I learn how to take the user name and domain by using WScript.Network object and enviroment variables and could show them to a simple window. But I need an example
*that open a file or DB connection to write in and close.
*how to get sistem time
*and how to make a script to work at log on and log off ( I do not want to put the script shortcut to the startup).
karanba
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karanba wrote:
*that open a file or DB connection to write in and close.
Here is a quick and dirty example of some VBscrip used to open and read from a DB
strDSN = "FILEDSN=Distrib.mdb.dsn"
Set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cn.Open strDSN
Set rsDistrib = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strSQL = "SELECT TCountry FROM CountryCombo"
rsDistrib.Open strSQL, cn
Set objCountry = rsDistrib("TCountry")
'=== start do
Do Until rsDistrib.EOF
theCountry(indCountry) = objCountry
rsDistrib.MoveNext
indCountry = indCountry+1
Loop
cn.close
karanba wrote:
*how to get sistem time
Try this:
msgbox Time()
karanba wrote:
*and how to make a script to work at log on and log off
In Windows 200 (and XP I belive) you can set the machines policy to run a logoff as well as login script. Sending data to DB should not be hard here since they support WSH in these scripts. Windows px would require a utillity to be installed that would provide this functionality. Windows NT you would have to write your own GINA library to manage the process of login and logoff. Not a trivial task.
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."
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We all know that if you have a CD, you can put an Autorun.inf file in its root and perform some magic whenever the CD is inserted.
It seems, though, that in certain situations, Windows XP and Windows Me supress this auto-run. Namely, if you are in the middle of installing a Plug and Play driver, the CD won't auto-run.
Is there any way to force the CD to auto-run anyway... or to auto-run as soon as the new hardware installation has completed? Any ideas here? I can't find jack in MSDN about this, but I'm still looking.
Thanks.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Windows XP backup returns:
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:80042301<br />
Reverting to non-shadow copy backup mode.
Do you think I could find an ounce of documentation on-line as to what exactly volume shadow copy does, how it does it and why it might fail and what 80042301 means? Nope.
Any OS geeks here have any documentation on hand or expert know how on the subject of volume shadow copy and backup?
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I repaired some virus damage last week on a client's network. All was working well when I left, but today the report reached me that the dialup networking status box is reporting three times as much outgoing traffic as incoming. That's a new one on me! This cutsomer is reluctant to spend actual money to renew his subscription for NAV, despite the low cost, and I am unwilling to spend any more time on this problem until he does, but I'm still curious to discover what might cause this symptom. The only suspicious thing I found on the system was Napster. I know that they're defunct, but could his network still be sharing files over that link? What else could cause this inversion of incoming/outgoing packets?
I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.
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I have a file, which I know is there, but I have no way of seeing it.
Like the man on the stair 
As I was using Windoze XP
I met a file which wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish it'd go away!
Well, I know it is there, because reading the MFT in a binary disk editor reveals it (I'm using Runtime's DiskExplorer for NTFS - a brilliant package I can't recommend highly enough). I also know it's there because if I try to create a file with the same name, I get the following errors:
"A file with the name you specified already exists" if I use Windows explorer to
rename a file. 
"Access is denied" if I try and copy a file to this name in the command prompt window
or in the recovery console. 
So, it exists. I see it on disk, and Explorer, Command prompt and Recovery console
all agree. The file is there.
But I can't see it in Explorer, or in the command prompt window or in the recovery console! It just plain isn't there!
Yes, I have set the options as follows in the explorer:
"Show hidden files and folders" is set
"Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" is not set
As a consequence I can see everything on my disk! Everything that is, except this one file!
What could cause this? How can I patch the MFT and/or root index entries (it's in the root directory) to make it visible? What deep dark mysteries of the NTFS are are work here.
It has only 3 MFT attributes. They are:
$10 = $STANDARD_INFORMATION<br />
$30 = $FILE_NAME<br />
$80 = $DATA
according to DiskExplorer (I've not attempted a manual decode of the MFT entry yet - DiskExplorer does it for one). It data is non-resident, it has but 1 run. More info gladly provided. What I'm fishing for is an understanding of what can possibly make a file so invisible.
Oh, "CHKDSK /R" is finds no problems with it. It's a healthy file. Just an invisible one.
Any clues? Any further tools useful in learning or diagnosing?
For anyone eager to understand the possible origins of such a bizarre file, it is the logical offshoot of the problem described in this thread:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1040090780[^]
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whats 'that' file name??
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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Hi All,
I'm running windows ME and I've been trying a few things and I have a couple of questions:
1) how much ram will windows ME recognize? I put a gig of ram in my machine, but it really bogs down. Seems like it doesn't know how to deal with that much RAM. Any ideas? It's a dell dimension machine. I'm pretty sure the mother board should have no problems with handling 1gig ram. It's a P3 933.
2) What's the largest size HD partition that Windows ME will recognize? I just bought a 120 gig drive and don't know how large the partitions I can make. The bigger the better though.
Thank you in advance!
Dan Willis
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1) IIRC, Windows 95 OSR2/98/Me support only 512Mb RAM. But that's not saying it's efficient using this memory. Win9x product line use algorithms good for low memory conditions, but sucks with more than 256Mb RAM.
2) Windows ME supports FAT32, which can format up to 2TB (terabyte) of data. But, again, it's not efficient. For a FAT32 system be speed-eficient with large files, you'll need a large cluster size, but this can lose a lot of slack space and space if you have lots of small files. If you have both small and large files, the most common situation, FAT32 sucks. With more space, NTFS can be much faster, specially for deep directory structures or directories with a large number of files.
I strongly recommend you to upgrade to Windows XP (since it can safely upgrade from Windows ME, I've done it before), or a fresh Windows 2000 installation for better use of your hardware.
I see dumb people
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I have to agree with Daniel. I'd strongly recommend an upgrade.
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Everyone say it together now...
Windows ME sucks!
Since Windows95, Microsoft was not bale to get a decent OS again until Windows 2000. Windows XP is good (getting to like it more as I use it more) and seems to handle large amounts of RAM very well (I have 2gig and it is quite happy with it).
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."
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I'd agree. Having tried every version of Windows since rev 2, my first impression was that Win95 was the first usable Windows version. Since then I've had to revise that, in that Win2K is the first functional OS that Microsoft has produced. WinME was only a patch to Win98, which was a buggy patch to Win95. My experience with WinXP has been a great disappointment, though - it's a giant step backwards from Win2K, and full of bugs in need of a good exterminator.
I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.
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Roger Wright wrote:
with WinXP has been a great disappointment
I do agree.... I prefer win 2000. It really rocks!!
Hmmm win ME... it really sucks 
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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