Layer 2 Encapsulation Protocols

High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) – HDLC is the default encapsulation type on point-to-point, dedicated links, and circuit-switched connections. It is used typically when communicating between two Cisco devices. It is a bit-oriented synchronous data link layer protocol.

Frame Relay Concepts

Frame Relay is a connection-oriented data-link technology that defines single-link virtual circuit multiplexing by assigning connection identifiers.

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.