Windows

This copy of windows is not genuine

You receive this message because Microsoft thinks that your key is a hack or used too many times. (recipe here)

Should you have a key ready please read kb328874 knowledge base article at Microsoft
key update tooldownload | article
- Using this tool I get message "the product key entered is not valid for this system. please check it for typing errors and try again". Tried with two different keys.

using 'mmc' and Services snap in
- 'runas /netonly /user:administrator mmc.exe'
- as found on this page
- load Services snap-in for desired computer
- start 'Terminal Service Session Directory'
It worked for me. If you are domain administrator you may want to make use of this info (enabling Terminal Services via Group Policy)

You have windows network and you would like monitor user login / logoff.
You have already searched the web and usenet trying to find suitable recipies but found none too concise.
- Windows 2003 server came with heaps of new auditing features and many of those are published but silent fact remains, that simple logon / logoff monitoring is not part of default reports.
- your network may not be win2003 network at all. you may entertain win2000 or even serverless network.

FIRST you have to start logon / logoff loging on machines monitored. Those are events 528 for logon and 538 for logoff. More on microsoft Event ID
- Take care you dont confuse these with 'account logon' events which are something else and have different IDs
- you can start logging of these either locally or via group policy.Audit Logon/Logoff success events.

Download Windows Server 2003 resource kit tools. Dont worry you can run them on WinXP. Tool you are interested in is Event Comber. There is such download for Windows 2000 also, I am yet to find it again on microsoft site.

You will find many a good site with windows shortcuts indexed extensively google-ing "windows shortcuts"