You're not alone when it comes to hardware misery :( Yesterday (saturday) I thought, I install SP4 on my co-located win2k server (remote via VNC). It didn't work very well, so it deinstalled and then I thought, maybe the webserver process is not shutting down correctly (it had errors there) so I rebooted the thing... however it didn't seem to get back up, no network connection. SO I thought: the sp4 installation has messed up the system, and it has now jumped in a BSOD or something. I went over to the datacenter where the server is (a 70KM drive (the hague - amsterdam)), go to the rack where my dell server is, hook up a monitor and expect to see "STOP .... ". However what do I see?
A post BIOS screen which congratulates me with the correct boot of the RAID controllers, and it politely asks me to hit F1 to continue...
So I hit F1 and it boots flawlessly. AAAARG. Who builds that kind of crap into a server bios.... Ah well.. :)
Good Idea, why dont you start a workspaceo on GotDotNet
huh. I may just do that, though I wouldn't know where to begin...
Although, .Net applications have very low security out of the box - so tweaking windows systens from .net may prove to be a bigger problem...
however - some of the easier stuff - like tweaking registry entries - that could be done easily(I think)
There is software that does that (and again, more than just the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard), though I can't remember the name off the top of my head. I'll see if I can remember it over the next few days.
Actually, I'm sure there's more than one package that does it.