From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:rio352hd40i950g5ejhm8djfj9sv1r9d80{at}4ax.com...

> I'm not sure what Hrvoje had in mind, but one GUI equivalent of what I was
> talking about would be to customise a tool with mmc.exe, by adding all the
> snap-ins you would commonly use (Active Directory Users and Computers,
> DNS, etc). Then run that as admin at the start of the day.

Starting something at the beginning of the day and keeping it running all
day doesn't work for me. I do troubleshooting so I never know what tool I'm
going to need next, I use everything and I regularly download something new
each day which I may use or may uninstall after I use it. Because I'm
troubleshooting I need the simplest setup so I know the problem isn't being
caused by something else I have running or maybe I need to change my IP
address or a static route or I need to trace from another machine via
pcanywhere or any of a hundered different things like that. I like that
about my job, I never know what to expect next.

I get the problems that nobody else can figure out.

> By the way, here is a trick that works in XP (not sure about W2000) if you
> want to terminate Windows Explorer.

Yeah, just open task manager and kill explorer then ctrl-shift-esc and
restart it as you described. The problem with doing this is some of the
tray icons won't return and I think a lot of those tray type programs get
messed up when you do this.

Geo.

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