Category Archives: Windows NT

Hide Drives and Partitions

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.

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.

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.