Some Notes on the Machines

Shortcuts to executables on the network, in Windows 7, always bring up that pesky “Do you want to run this file” message. To eliminate these in Windows 7 Professional and up, use gpedit.msc:

User Configuration >
Administrative Templates >
Windows Components >
Attachment Manager

and add “*.exe” to “Inclusion list for moderate risk file types”.

The following two commands, in order, will reliably do a remote shutdown across domains:

net use \\remotesystem password /u:domain\username
shutdown -r -t 0 -f -m \\remotesystem

When you see “Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects”, in Server 2003, try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842804

Windows Easy Transfer is useful from XP to Vista or 7; but from XP to XP, its predecessor still works; it’s called the “File and Settings Transfer Wizard”, and is available thusly:

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > File and Settings Transfer Wizard

More documentation is here:

http://www.howtotransferfiles.com/XP/XP_XP.html

Some really good control methods for USB drives, is here:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

These look very interesting to me:

http://www.cilsoftware.com/cstuneup.htm

http://www.360amigo.com/en/node/21

Here is the All Users desktop:

C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop\

and here is the All Users start menu:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\

This tool does very well:

http://download.cnet.com/ProduKey/3000-2094_4-10457063.html

Microsoft has a way:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738#LetMeFixItMyselfAlways

Run this on your Windows file server (confirmed for 2003):

net config server /autodisconnect:-1

It turns something called autodisconnect, for network drives, effectively off!