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.