Recent content by Ron Bennett

Looks like Home Premium Supports Media Center. You mean, there's no possibility to enable saving of log on passwords there in Manage your network passwords, right? Uh, yeah that brings your world into sharper focus while delivering the productivity entertainment, and security.

Yeah, I agree MCE eHomeShell is very nice built add-in. And you even can integrate that 200 meg cab into setup CD and autoinstall it during XP setup. It's also nice that it can be installed on XP: sometimes you need to be able to join your corporate domain and have access to such entertainment...

For my point of view desktop management tools are always a good way to remove such kind of pain. Personally I prefer Desktop Authority. It allows do that selectively what's very helpful for configuring users with needed printers throughout the office. Say users that sit in different rooms or...

Why not. For example I manage my corporate server with remote manager within the Desktop Authority.

Looks like files are locked. Try to boot in WinPE Live CD or something and re-apply clearing the compression streams from files. But sorry can't dig in it. If your admin decided to save space why do you want to decompress data? In fact NTFS compression worth having it even on already compressed...

Thank you. There is also an interesting document brief called Exploring Windows Vista Group Policy Management Features that worth reading.