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Top Rated Tips

1681) Q164501
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Updates
NT, W2K, and XP uses the KnownDLLs registry entries to search for either 32-bit or 16-bit DLLs when loading the DLL. For 32-bit DLLs the KnownDLLs registry entry only affects the search for implicitly loaded DLLs. For 16-bit DLLs the KnownDLLs registry entry affects the search for both implicitly and explicitly loaded DLLs. If you incorrectly include a DLL name in the KnownDLLs registry entry, the LoadLibrary in Windows NT/2000/XP WOW fails to load a DLL located in the application's current directory.
1682) Q164501
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
1683) Q164501
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities
1684) Printer Timing
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Print
1685) Printing from Windows 7 to Windows XP in a workgroup
Date - Jun 15, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Admin
How to print from a Windows 7 computer to a Windows XP printer in a workgroup.
1686) Printer Available Broadcasts
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Print
1687) Protecting the pagefile
Date - Nov 30, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Security
How to protect the pagefile in Windows 7.
1688) Protect KnownDLL Lookup Table
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
1689) Process Monitor versus Process Explorer
Date - Jul 04, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Chris Sanders
Section - Admin
Process Monitor and Process Explorer both have a lot in common. This tip gives a brief outline of how they are different and what tasks each on does.
1690) Preventing Orphaned GPO’s
Date - Jun 13, 2007
Rating - 3
Author - Chris Sanders
Section - Active Directory
When you remove a computer from a domain there are a few steps you should take to ensure that its GPO settings are removed properly as well.
1691) Pre-configuring local group policy settings
Date - Apr 18, 2007
Rating - 3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Miscellaneous
How to preconfigure LGPOs on multiple machines.
1692) Preventing installation of per-user applications
Date - Sep 20, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Security
How to prevent the installation of per-user applications on Windows 7 computers.
1693) Preventing Users From Circumventing Group Policy
Date - Jan 24, 2006
Rating - 3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Security
Given enough privileges, a user can often circumvent Group Policy restrictions. Here's what you can do about it.
1694) Preventing accidental shutdown
Date - Jul 20, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Admin
How to prevent users from accidentally shutting down their computers.
1695) Preventing and Correcting Large Distribution List Message Storms
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Email
1696) Preventing desktop shortcuts from disappearing in Windows 7
Date - Oct 18, 2011
Rating - 3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Miscellaneous
How to prevent desktop shortcuts from mysteriously disappearing in Windows 7.
1697) Preventing Windows 7 from using both wired and wireless network connections simultaneously
Date - Dec 12, 2011
Rating - 3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Network
Here's a tip on how to prevent Windows 7 from using both wired and wireless network connections simultaneously.
1698) Prevent opening a command prompt window in Windows PE
Date - Dec 20, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Migration
This tip describes how to prevent opening a command prompt window in Windows PE.
1699) Prevent open or minimized applications from restarting at reboot
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Booting
1700) Prevent open or minimized applications from restarting at reboot
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - IE and Explorer
1701) Prevent open or minimized applications from restarting at reboot
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Restriction
1702) Prevent W2K explorer from opening a new window when network drive is mapped
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Explorer
1703) Prevent Windows 7 from Auto Assigning Networks as Public
Date - Nov 22, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Eric Geier
Section - Miscellaneous
Make it prompt you to select a network location the first time you connect.
1704) Prevent use of writable CD/DVD drives
Date - Mar 16, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Security
How you can prevent users from writing to writable CD/DVD on their computers.
1705) Prevent Users From Adding/Removing Printers
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Print
1706) Prepping Windows PE for capture
Date - Jan 20, 2009
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Deployment
Prepping a Windows PE build environment removes any components that are present in the component store but have not been installed.
1707) Pre-specifying the computer name for Windows PE
Date - Mar 09, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Miscellaneous
Here's a tip on how you can pre-specify the computer name for Windows PE.
1708) Pre-mapping network drives
Date - Aug 31, 2011
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Network
How to map a network drive when the share you need to connect to isn't available.
1709) Planning DHCP for Static Assignments
Date - Mar 29, 2007
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Chris Sanders
Section - Admin
Implementing DHCP usually seems like a pretty straightforward process but there are a few things that are often forgotten during the planning phases of a DHCP implementation.
1710) PMon watches NT context swaps, process and thread creation and deletion
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities

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