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Most Popular Tips

211) Windows Media Player Tips
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.3
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
212) Windows 2000 Registry Size Limit (RSL)
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.7
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
213) Microsoft's Administration Tools for Windows 2000
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.6
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities
214) Enable ClearType font rendering
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.3
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Customization
215) HKEY_USERS
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Registry
216) Enable DHCP Logging
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.9
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
217) NETBIOS: Leave On or Turn Off?
Date - Apr 14, 2005
Rating - 3.9
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Security
NETBIOS is supposed to be no longer needed since Windows 2000, but this is not really the case.
218) Restoring .lnk file associations
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.4
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
219) Where is XP's Netmeeting?
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities
220) USERENV 1000 Events
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Event log
221) Disable ALL autostart features in Windows XP (pro and home)
Date - Nov 24, 2005
Rating - 3.5
Author - Robert Olovsson
Section - Disable - Hide
This little trick will disable all autoplay features, eg. CDs, USB-memories etc.
222) Disable Low Disk Space Notification in Windows XP
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.4
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Disable - Hide
223) Display the Sharing Tab in XP Folder Properties
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.8
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
224) Turning the Windows XP Wireless Utility On or Off
Date - Apr 03, 2008
Rating - 2.1
Author - Eric Geier
Section - Network and Security
How to toggle between your wireless adapter’s configuration utility and Windows XP’s.
225) Windows 2000 Default Security Policy Templates
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.7
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
226) Remotely Shutdown Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Shutdown
227) Google Yourself To Identify Security Holes
Date - Mar 15, 2005
Rating - 4
Author - Tony Bradley
Section - Security
Google is very good at what it does. It automatically and systematically catalogues every document, image, web site or other data that is web accessible so that it can be quickly retrieved using the Google search engine. That includes potentially sensitive or confidential data that wasn't intended to be shared publicly. Google your own network or sites to identify possible security holes.
228) Packet Sniffers
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
229) Registry Tip : Windows NT NTFS Last Access TimeStamp
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
230) Disable FindFast, the Indexing Service
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
231) Disk Write Caching
Date - May 23, 2006
Rating - 3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Miscellaneous
How and why to disable disk write caching.
232) Transparent Screen Lock for Windows 2000/NT/XP
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.6
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities
233) Backdoors : backorifice, subseven, netbus
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.9
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
234) Checking Local Group Policy
Date - Dec 21, 2005
Rating - 3.5
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Security
There may be times when you want to check the Local Group Policy Settings on a desktop machine.
235) Modify the Default Group Policy Refresh Interval
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.6
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
236) Monitor Share Usage for File Server Migration
Date - Apr 07, 2005
Rating - 4.4
Author - Leon Funnell
Section - Utilities
How to monitor share access on a file server.
237) Troubleshoot Problems with Standby Mode, Hibernate Mode, and Shutdown in Windows 2000
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.3
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
238) Download Java Virtual Machines for XP
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.4
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
239) Autologon NT utility enables / disable capability
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.8
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities
240) Create a User-Defined Service, Srvany.exe
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.4
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Services

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