Re: find specific files on users' hard drives

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You could use SMS 2003 or some other type of management software that would
catalog and report information to a central database. I know in SMS 2003
has a feature to collect specific file names and information about that.

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"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We need to search for several specific files on every user's machine on
> our
> domain. I would ideally like to do it in our login script, but I am open
> to
> other suggestions. The search should run in the background without the
> user
> seeing much of a performance loss on their end. Can anybody point me to
> some
> sample code that would search for file(s) on a hard drive? All of the
> machines in question are Win XP Professional.


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