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511) Create Lock Desktop Icon: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
512) Create/manage share permissions from Windows NT commandline using RMTSHARE: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
513) Control Windows XP Transition Effects for Menus and Windows: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
514) Control Internet Explorer Settings: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - IE
515) Disable caching of roaming profiles: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Disable
516) Disable automatic share and print discovery in Windows XP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
517) Can't shut down from command line: Date - Apr 25, 2006; Rating - 4.1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Utilities; How to resolve a problem when using the shutdown.exe command when logged on with non-admin credentials.
518) Command Shell Full Screen vs Window Mode: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Command Shell
519) Active Directory database file NTDS.DIT: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory
520) Authoritative vs. Non-Authoritative Restoration of Active Directory: Date - Jul 20, 2006; Rating - 4.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; It is the absolute worst case scenario possible; your domain controller has crashed. So what type of restore do you do?
521) A Quick Tip To Update Group Policy Settings On Remote Computers: Date - Oct 16, 2008; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a single command you can use to update the Group Policy settings on remote computers. Please note this applies to Windows 2000 Computers only!
522) A Quick Tip to make sure Adprep /ForestPrep for Windows Server 2008 has run successfully: Date - Jun 04, 2008; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; Adprep /ForestPrep must be executed to introduce a Windows Server 2008 in an existing Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 domain environment. This will show you how to make sure that it has run successfully.
523) Allow Server Operators to use AT command: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
524) A Quick Tip To Allow Multiple WDS Server Selection: Date - Jun 30, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a registry heck you can use to allow clients to select multiple WDS Servers. This applies to Windows Server 2008 R2 only.
525) Apply Server 2008 Group Policy to Windows XP Devices: Date - Nov 24, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; Windows Server 2008 Group Policy provides several new features that ease network administration. In order to apply these new settings to your Windows XP devices a couple of extra steps will need to be taken.
526) Add Administrator to Windows XP Welcome logon screen: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
527) Add paths in autoexec to NT's PATH environmental variable: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
528) Adding feature packs to Windows PE: Date - Mar 09, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; When adding feature packs to a Windows PE image, make sure you also add the corresponding language packs.
529) CommandLine Options for Explorer in XP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Command Prompt
530) Commandline Quick Edit Mode: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Command Prompt
531) Checking Page File Location On Remote Computers: Date - Nov 25, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can check the Pagefile location on remote computers.
532) CD Rom Autorun: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hardware
533) Cannot Dual Boot Windows on a Shared Partition: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Booting
534) Block XP Registration: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
535) Block Users from Seeing or Connecting to Other Wi-Fi Networks: Date - Jul 02, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security; Filtering networks using the WLAN Netsh commands.
536) BIOS Data in the Registry: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
537) BelchFire.net : XP Themes: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
538) Block access to Windows NT NetBIOS: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
539) Avoiding Metabase Corruption: Date - Aug 11, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; IIS 6 on W2K3 has a new feature that helps prevent metabase corruption.
540) Avoiding Group Policy Bloat: Date - Jan 03, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to save disk space on SYSVOL when you have lots of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) for your domain.