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What about the option of running HijackThis? Thanks, Avian

Matt, Would it make sense to split out the names and locations of the downloaded utility programs into the .ini file? AutoClean could read them from the .ini and download them if so requested. I'd also like to see a separate program that would allow us to just download the utility programs and perhaps build a .zip file containing all of them. I suggest this because I'd like to use AutoClean as a utility run from a USB drive. I might be using it to clean up a PC that's either offline or the infestation has blocked downloads from some or all of the needed sites, or internet access totally. I'd like to be able to download the latest utilities periodically and update them on my USB drive so that I could just copy them to the PC I'm cleaning up. It would also be nice to have a static link that always pointed to the latest version. (You may have this - I haven't checked!) The utility could download the latest version of AutoClean, as well as the latest versions of the utilities and get everything ready to copy to the USB drive. Thanks, Avian

Very nice! Looks like a good tool to keep on my USB drive! Avian

Yashrai, The source data is Microsoft's Active Directory. An LDAP directory MIGHT work, but I have not tested it with LDAP. If you're not logging into a Windows domain, you're probably not going to have AD, nor will you have the need for this program. I wrote it because I worked at a company with about 7000 employees and had no other way to get a company directory onto my non-company PDA (a Treo 680 at that point. It'd work with a Blackberry, as well, if you synced it through Outlook and not as part of a Blackberry Enterprise Server). A sample .ini file was uploaded with the source code. The source code is also commented pretty well, so between the two, you should be able to figure it out. Put the .ini file in the same folder with the executable. The program will write to either Outlook's Contacts folder or to an ASCII text file in the same folder as the executable. If you don't have access to AD, then you'll not be able to test this program. I posted it as an example. I had to dig for a lot of the information I used to create this program and wanted to make it available to others that might want to do something similar. Avian

A while back, I worked at a large company that maintained the company phone directory via Active Directory. My personal PDA couldn't sync with AD, so I never had the phone numbers I needed. I eventually wrote this script to dig through AD and pull out the names, phone numbers, locations, managers, etc. from AD. I wrote it so it would either update Outlook or dump the data to a tab-delimited ASCII file. The program as written may not totally suit your needs depending on how your IT folks have AD populated. There may be certain fields that your company uses that ours didn't use, and vice versa. I dug through MSDN until I found all the fields we had populated that provided the info I wanted. You may have to find and use other fields. YMMV. The program retrieves AD records for AD ObjectCategory = Person and ObjectClass = User. In our case we had some OrganizationalUnits (OUs) that I didn't need and some EmployeeTypes (ETs) that I didn't want, either. You may specify OUs and ETs in the .ini file to be ignored when retrieving data. Another way I minimized the records I wanted was to suppress any record that didn't have a manager. A sample .ini file is attached as a .txt file. When adding the records to Outlook, I set a specific category name so that all these records may be separated from other groups. This program does NOT perform an update - it deletes all the records in the specified category and reloads them from AD. I felt it was too time-consuming to try to determine which fields within a record had changed. For trial purposes, I'd suggest dumping to an ASCII text file until you get the records you want. Cheers, Avian MyCoDirectory.au3 MyCoDirectory.txt

Nice code! Thanks! Avian

Many thanks!! I've always wondered what was going on when the drive activity light was on and I wasn't doing anything. I always wondered if there was something connecting to my PC without my knowledge! Avian

Nice job - This could come in very handy! Thanks, Avian

No, my understanding is that all of the free quote services have delays of 15-20 minutes. If you want live quotes, you have to pay to get them. Avian

Thanks! This should be useful! Avian

Thanks, Gerifield! I've been looking for a simple example on how to do this!