How to restore the IIS Metabase
Find and restore a good copy of the metabase. There are three possible locations for these backup copies:
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Get the Current Username
Get the username of the currently logged on user.
Add a Web Site to the Internet Explorer Favorites List
This code allows you to add a favorite to the IE 4 or 5 list of favorites.
Control Smart Menus
Windows 2000 included a new feature called ‘Personalized Menus’, which remembers which items you use regularly and hides items you don’t. This tweaks allows you to enable or disable this functionality.Open your registry and find the key mentioned below.
Cascade the Printer Folder
This tweak controls when the ‘Printers’ sub-folder under ‘Settings’ on the Start Menu, is shown as a cascading folder. Open your registry and find the key mentioned below. Create a new string value, or modify the the existing value, named ‘CascadePrinters’. Modify the value to equal ‘YES’ to enable cascading or ‘NO’ to disable it. Exit your registry… Read More »
Show Cascading My Documents Folder
This tweak makes the ‘My Documents’ folder on the Start Menu into a cascading folder, which then give you direct access to sub-folders without having to open the main ‘My Documents’ directory first.
Show Cascading Network Connections
This tweak makes the ‘Network and Dial-up Connections’ folder on the Start Menu into a cascading menu instead of a simple folder link.
Show Cascading Control Panel Items
This tweak controls whether the Control Panel is shown as a cascading menu or as a simple folder link on the Start Menu.
Windows NT Short File Extensions
Windows NT evaluates file extensions on the first three characters, therefore ‘filename.html’ is actually treated as ‘filename.htm’. The side affect is that if you use a command such as ‘del *.htm’ to delete all the ‘.htm’ files, you will also delete all ‘.html’ files as well. This functionality can be disabled by modifying the registry.
Run Logon Scripts Synchronously
This setting defines whether the system should wait for the logon scripts to complete before starting the user’s shell. This function can also be controlled on a per user basis by modifing the same value at: