Disable Old School Name Creation
By disabling 8.3 name creation, as well as disabling low disk space checking, you can enjoy a slight disk performance increase.
Category Archives: Microsoft
How to Disable IPv6
To disable certain IPv6 components in Windows Vista, follow these steps: Note:- If the DisabledComponents entry is unavailable, you must create it. To do this, follow these steps: Type any one of the following values to configure the IPv6 protocol, and then click OK: Now You must restart your computer for these changes to take affect.
Vista Sidebar SCOM Info
Microsoft has released a sidebar gadget, which you can download here, that gives insight into the SCOM environment for your organization.
Determine Users Last Logon Location
If you enable auditing for the Audit account logon events category on Win2K domain controllers (DCs), you”ll see event ID 672.
Windows Indexing Service
The Windows Indexing Service provides you with the ability to perform advanced searches on directories located on your computer and on shared directories on the network. The Indexing Service was introduced with IIS (Internet Information Services) and is now installed with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Unable to Turn Off Out of Office
After turning on your Out of Office assistant, you may find that it won”t turn back off. You may be presented with the following error when attempting to turn it off:
Restricting Applications Users Can Run
Windows gives the ability to restrict the applications that can be run by users on a workstation.
Change IE Start Page
System administrators will almost always set the default home page for the browser to the corporate website or intranet when building a machine. This is just a small registry hack that will set the home page for IE6 or IE7. You could probably use this in a logon script to set to home page on all users when… Read More »
Allow IE More Download Threads
Have you ever tried to download more than 2 files from the same website and noticed the third download doesn”t start until one of the prior two are done? The reason for this is that the HTTP 1.1 spec says that only two connections may be allowed at a time, so your browser adheres to that limit. We… Read More »
Run Control Panel Applets from a Command Prompt
This handy little chart shows you which commands to issue at the command prompt to start control panel applets. Very handy for keyboard commandos. Applet Name Filename Accessibility Controls access.cpl Add/Remove Programs control appwiz.cpl Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Automatic Updates wuaucpl.cpl Date/Time Properties control timedate.cpl Display Properties control desk.cpl or control desktop Display Properties “Appearance Tab Preselected” control… Read More »