[mikehollinger]

> Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain.

Ha. That brings me back as well. I installed (pirated) Windows 2000 Advanced Server onto a Compaq that I won. I ran my own active directory which let me share printers to my mom's laptop (an iBook at the time), and our other PC. It was total overkill, but I deeply enjoyed tinkering with each and every setting to see what it did, discovering the registry and seeing what all of -that- did, breaking things, fixing things... and now here we are. :-)

I miss that feeling. :-)

[hn_throwaway_69]

Eerily similar to me! Minus winning the computer, would have begged someone instead!

My mother wasn't very happy with my experiments with group policy, which included adding the secure attention sequence (control alt delete) to her login screen. And various lockdowns of the start menu and Windows Explorer :)

Overkill is an apt description.

[mikehollinger]

Ha - nice. I won a web design contest from Road Runner in one of their youth categories. That machine was our office PC for a good seven or eight years. Now that I think about it, I'm amazed the hard drive didn't fail. I think I set up a backup system, but I genuinely can't recall how I had it rigged up at the time.