Your organization has finally made the jump, and deployed Internet Explorer 7 to the general populace. However, there are a few of the employees that do not quite get the idea of tabbed browsing. It just confuses them more. Luckily, you as a system administrator, can remotely disable tabbed browsing through a registry tweak. Sure, you could simply… Read More »
Most of the time, you’ll want to lock your workstation. You may not be working with super-secret stuff, but you will want to keep your machine free of the wandering hands of your co-workers. I know some of my co-workers.
Adds “Copy To” and “Move To” options in files and folders right-click context menu.
Sometimes you may experience and app that just hangs, and you are unable to close it in the normal fashion. You can use this registry change to automatically close hung apps after a specified period of time.
To take ownership of a file or directory, you’d normally right click the object, select properties, open the security tab, click advanced, open the owner tab, select a new owner, then click apply.
Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.
Hint: It’s in Task Manager.
Just use the task manager!
Do you have data on a partition or hard drive that you don’t want tampered with or easily accessible to other users? Well, you can hide any drive/partition in Windows XP, NT, and 2000. That means that they won’t show up in Explorer or My Computer.
Do you experience this kind of problem whenever you attempt to install an application in windows box (2k, xp)? “The Windows Installer service could not be accessed.