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Okay I resolved this issue when I found some sysprep files still on the computer.

I did some hard drive cloning today and used sys prep to get Windows 98 machines ready for Windows XP. After the hard drives were cloned and windows launched up into Win XP I get a "System Preparation 2.0" message.

I am trying to remove this from starting up after each reboot, but its not in ...

Originally posted by Prey521
I setup a SUS at my job, works great, thats the only drawback though, won't update 9x and NT clients! But oh well, who the hell cares about those anyways!! :D



You can try the Baseline Analyzer, which will scan an NT client, but nope, won't do 9x machines!



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I appreciate the help everyone. Now I just need to get the rest of these systems upgraded so we can effectively implement something like this.

Originally posted by Ghosthunter
yeah but so is yahoo.com

This thread is about Bill Gates though isnt it? I dont believe Prey suggested that Yahoo wasn't. Simply responding to your thread.

Just a quick followup on this one. Is there any program that will work on a multiple OS network to do this?

Greatly appreciated Tony.

Originally posted by TonyT
1. Immediately after startup, look at Task manager\Processes Tab.
2. Start Menu\Programs\Startup.
3. All icons in system tray load at startup.
4. regedit:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run
5. You can also do a google search for windows 2000 msconfig ...

Thanks for the help.

Anyone know what the command is for Winxp/2000 to do a system file check like what you can do with Win 98?

Anyone know where I can find information on a list of resources that start at startup so I can decide what I can and cant disable?

Thx

eek it doesnt work with client computers running Windows 98. Got several here on our network running Windows 98.

Originally posted by koldchillah
thats strange.. link works fine from my end.


Its Microsoft's SUS server. (Software Update Service).. its free you just have to install it on a Microsoft server OS that has IIS enabled and you can use it to push updates down to all client PC's on the network ...

What is that link supposed to show? The page just continues to flash and doesnt do anything.

Is there a way to set some kind of software up to monitor PC's on a network so I would know when a computer is in need of a critical update or driver update?

Originally posted by TonyT
1. scheduled tasks
2. reminder programs.
3. error reporting service.
4. auto updates.
5. power mgmt settings.

Remove all scheduled tasks.
Turn off ms auto update.
Turn off error reporting service.
Disable all unneeded services.
etc etc etc

disable anything that runs ...

Is there anything you would recommend Tony to disable to test this out? At this point Id prefer to test software possibilities before going to hardware (i.e. hard drive, RAM).

Anyone here have some experience with this error? I have a computer here at the place I work that everyday at 11:43am the computer gets a blue screen and then pops up this error and then within 30 seconds reboots.

I did all the normal checks including a virus scan and trojan scan and it comes back ...