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Quite right, Michael, but I just had to try it. I don't have the time to set up a Linux box, but I might one day.
A reasonably safe option is to set up a VPN connection to use when travelling, and Win7 supposedly supports that. But following the step-by-step instructions presented in Help simply doesn't work. I have no clue why, since Microsoft won't tell you what needs doing, but insists on providing a friendly, if retarded, "wizard" to do everything wrong for you.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I don't have the time to set up a Linux box, but I might one day
If your willing to use CentOS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the copyright stuff pulled out, but built from the same source) I can send you a Word document on how to set it up exactly as I have. The joy of SSH is it is completely encrypted end to end.
Roger Wright wrote: A reasonably safe option is to set up a VPN connection to use when travelling,
and Win7 supposedly supports that. But following the step-by-step instructions
presented in Help simply doesn't work. I have no clue why, since Microsoft won't
tell you what needs doing, but insists on providing a friendly, if retarded,
"wizard" to do everything wrong for you.
The VPN Connection is easy to setup on Windows 7 (has been since XP) but do you have the VPN to connect to? Does your Router have a VPN built into it and is it activated? Otherwise you will need one running on your Windows 2008 R2 box and I'm not sure if one is built in or if it needs to be 3rd party.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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According to the "documentation" provided by Win7 Help, a separate server shouldn't be required. One little wizard configures the host machine, the other does the remote. My router doesn't have a VPN server in it, but I've enabled VPN passthrough to let the little buggers through. On making the connection, the authentication works - at least it completes without announcing any errors - then it proceeds to invoke a couple of miniport drivers, then just times out. The most informative I've been able to get from it is that the host didn't respond. Very curious...
I do have an old PC that I could use for Linux, so if you'd like to send along your instructions I'll give them a look. Thanks, Michael! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'll pull it out, clean it up and send it across in the next couple of days.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Roger Wright wrote: I have no clue why, since Microsoft won't tell you what needs doing, but insists on providing a friendly, if retarded, "wizard" to do everything wrong for you.
this is the funniest thing I have read today. This is the real way to complain about something!
If it moves, compile it
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Michael Martin wrote: I'd seriously look at getting a little, low power, low heat output box, put a Linux Distro on it and SSH to the Linux Box (reasonably locked down) and SSH Tunnel through it to the Windows Boxen, Routers, Website stuff like your USB HDD.
Sounds like fodder for a good article!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Sounds like fodder for a good article!
About 3 years ago I mentioned on here that I would do exactly that, including SAMBA for file sharing and such, still haven't pulled the finger out.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You could do what others have suggested or just get a subscription to https://logmein.com/[^]
From WIKI (logmein is blocked at my company)
LogMeIn remote access products use a proprietary remote desktop protocol that is transmitted via SSL. An SSL certificate is created for each remote desktop and is used to cryptographically secure communications between the remote desktop and the accessing computer.[4]
Users access remote desktops using either the LogMeIn Ignition stand-alone application or a web portal. The web portal requires either an ActiveX plugin for Internet Explorer, or an extension for Firefox (the LogMeIn plug-in for Firefox), or an extension for Safari (the LogMeIn plug-in for Safari), failing that it falls back to requiring Java in order to run a Java program,[5] and failing that it falls back to "a screen-shot-based HTML remote control".[6] The web portal also provides status information for the remote computers and, optionally, remote computer management functions.
The service connects the remote desktop and the local computer using SSL over TCP or UDP and utilizing NAT traversal techniques to achieve peer-to-peer connectivity when available.[4][7][8]
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I'm not sure where this goes, but this is the closest forum I could find to what I wanted/meant.
I have been having lots of issues with my xp box at the office. We've tried many things, including a new nic. It seems to do everything slower than it's older counter parts.
Next thing we are going to try is a registry cleanup. I don't know any good ones. Suggestions? Any free one's would be good, mostly since we are not sure it will even work.
If it moves, compile it
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Start with CCleaner[^] it was free and seems to do okay.
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Easy enough to install and use. It'll take a me a couple days with some of our normal processes to test, but stuff seems to be a bit snappier already.
I was surprised at how many issues I had in my registry. I know nothing of ms registry 
If it moves, compile it
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Well, it seemed to work for some things. Including boot/startup time, browser speed, and programs opening.
However, that was not my problem
It's whenever I do things like spreadsheet processing, vb6 modules, etc. These exact programs work with the same data and all situations , faster on the other computers with smaller specs. This one is just slow for some reason, and I can't figure out why.
If it moves, compile it
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Thus the "Start with". 
I am not an expert, but thought the tip might help.
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Right. The registry cleaner seemed to do exactly what it was supposed to. I liked the disk cleanup options as well. it did make an improvement on my computer. I just don't think it was the root problem.
You're solution did directly address the issue I was asking about. I just asked the wrong question it seems.
If it moves, compile it
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You should check Task Manager and see how many services are running in the background. CRTL+ALT+DEL or right-click the taskbar on the bottom of your screen.
If Office is bogging down try running a repair on it through thr tools option in either Word or Excel.
Defrag your drive lately? I usually run it two-three times in a row once a month, or setup a schedule. People tend to forget that drive speed/age can have a nasty effect of a PC as well.
**Note: Before doing any manual registy cleaning > Right-click on MyComputer in Regedit and export the entire registry tot he C:\drive in a folder like "C:\REGBACKUP\, so if you have to do a commandline fix it'll be there.
Check in Regedit under HKEY Local Machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run and see how many "things" are trying to run on startup. I get rid of all of the Adobe, Java, iTunes, HP, or any other Updater that's in there.
You can also post what your's shows for us to look at as well.
Something worth reading, albeit it's invincible!
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Windows XP had a "Run As..." command that allowed you to choose the user you want to run a program as.
In Win7, when I choose to run as Administrator, it doesn't let me choose which administrator.
Is there any way to run a program as a specific admin account in Windows 7?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You may open the context menu with pressed shift key. Then there is another option "Run as different user" where you can enter a user name and the password.
[Update]
This is not necessary when logged in on a domain with Win 7 Pro. Then there is always an input field for a local administrator account name.
[/Update]
modified 16-Feb-12 3:24am.
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You learn something new every day. Five for the context menu with shift key.
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Thank you. A quite simple thing I still know from Windows 2000 where you always had to use it to show the 'Run as administrator' menu item.
One more note: When you are logged in on a domain with Win 7 Pro, you are always prompted for a local administrator account name.
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Excellent! Thanks so much.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: <Update>
This is not necessary when logged in on a domain with Win 7 Pro.
Then there is always an input field for a local administrator account name.
</Update>
I haven't found this to be true in the 18+ months I have been Administering Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It's just my experience here with 7 Pro. But there are some points that may be the source for this behaviour:
- Domain server is running Samba
- Actually logged in on domain with an user account (not logged in locally)
- Local profiles (no roaming)
- There is no client specific administrator account on the Samba server (only the account required to enter the domain)
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Hi,
I have always ran every computer I owned, or have Control over, in Administrator Mode.
We have a network of a (typical) three Computers. We trust eachother, and we want All of us to be able to Read, Modify, Delete and Write to All Files.
That works fine with our own Software,This has not caused even one problem, until MS Office Arrived. It stores by default, documents in unpredictable locations.
For Backup and Storage Purposes, we want the Whole Lot to be located in One Directory Location on One Computer, to which MS Office Defaults. We want to set up our Own Directory Methods, where Office is not giving easy options and second guessing the last folder. We are looking for a Solution where MS Office ALWAYS browses from the Virtual Disk Root, regardles who is signed on!
Regards,
Bram van Kampen
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You can change the default file locations in options
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On a customer site, a "normal" (i.e. non-administrative) user cannot access the sound settings (mmsys.cpl) of the computer, whereas an admin can. From the error message the user receives, my impression was that a group policy causes the problem. Do you know which group policy can do so (the customer's admins do not know that...)?
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