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    unreliable "big" packets puzzle

    underdown24: Thanks for your kind offer of help! WRT the details of what you said: 1) RE: tracert/traceroute as a diag: Checked that: No dice. Sometimes I can't even trace to my own gwy/rtr or DNS server, (usu works tho) other times I can trace anywhere I try (rare, but happens.) No...
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    We're all Doomed!

    Deer Sewerside_Packed: :yowch: :laugh: (rotflmao) As I'm sure you are aware, use of the ficticious Law Firm name "Dewey, Cheatem & Howe(C)" is an infringement of the copyrighted poster by The Three Stooges. http://www.soitenlystooges.com/search.asp?search_keyword=dewey&refer=4 Googling(TM)...
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    [HOW TO] Concurrent Remote Desktop in SP2

    Ok, now that I've gone through this entire thread, I'd like to sum up and make a suggestion: 1) Follow _kC_'s original instructions, but with arra's modification: "CurrentControlSet" is the correct thing to use, always. 2) In addition to the original instructions, Fast User Switching and the...
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    We're all Doomed!

    'Gotta jump in here.... All the hype is distracting from the root cause of "the problem:" copyright-enforcement-based (CEB) business models. The CEB model was fine when (and so long as): (1) it enjoyed governmental protection and enforcement backing, (2) reproduction and distribution of...
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    XP Pro slow when accessing Network Drives...

    Wow! I just noticed that that question was from 2002! 'Guess my answer won't be of much help to him now! :lick: (Now I know to check for ancient threads before posting here!)
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    unreliable "big" packets puzzle

    Okay, I'm going nuts with this one. (I joined OSNN just to see if someone could help with this! :) ) A client's WinXP SP2 Home machine suddenly stopped working on theirhome LAN network/internet, everything. (They do all kinds ofthings to their system when I'm not there; I don't "own" the...
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    XP Pro slow when accessing Network Drives...

    Do two things, on all affected systems (after trying and confirming it working on one first!): 1) Open Folder Options -> View(tab) and clear the "Automaticallysearch for network folders and printers" checkbox under "Files andFolders." (I think this is what the previous post was accomplishing...
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    xp slow login

    In my experience 80% of the time this is a DNS problem. Check it by explicitly setting the IP for your Preferred DNS server inthe connection on one of the slow machines and see if that fixesit. If so, you can leave it that way (possible GOTCHA! down theroad, tho...), or go find out why the...
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    View logged on users

    I'm taking it from the original message by ZeroHour that he wanted theusers ** logged on to the DOMAIN ** not a given machine itself. I found the answer to meet my needs with: NET SESSION in the DC's console. A better version for use in scripts that just gives the number of users in...
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