Category Archives: Windows

What is APIPA?

A Windows-based computer that is configured to use DHCP can automatically assign itself an Internet Protocol (IP) address if a DHCP server is not available. For example, this could occur on a network without a DHCP server, or on a network if a DHCP server is temporarily down for maintenance.

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.

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:

Time-out for NT User Profile Dialog Boxes

When the user is presented with a dialog box requesting User Profile information, this specifies the amount of time in seconds before the dialog box is closed and the default is accepted. The default value is 30 seconds.