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31) Control number of workstations that a user can login simultaneously: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Logon
32) Creating and managing DHCP scopes using Netsh: Date - Aug 05, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; You can use the Netsh command to create and manage DHCP scopes from the command line.
33) Creating a Reverse Lookup Zone using DNSCMD: Date - Oct 29, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; An example of how to use the DNSCMD command to create a reverse lookup zone from the command-line.
34) Creating Resource Records using DNSCMD: Date - Oct 29, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; How to use the DNSCMD command to create a resource record from the command-line.
35) Custom Provider Creation in MOM: Date - Oct 11, 2006; Rating - 5; Author - Santhosh Sivarajan; Section - Admin; Sometimes we need to use custom providers to create MOM Rules. Here is an example of creating a custom provider to return free hard drive space information from drive H.
36) Dedicated Dump File In Windows Server 2008: Date - Jun 23, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a new feature of Windows Server 2008 called Dedicated Dump File.
37) Delegating Server Controls: Date - Dec 10, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article contains a few links you can use to delegate basic server administrations to junior Administrators.
38) Detecting RAID controller cards during Setup: Date - Jun 06, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Troubleshooting USB floppy drive issues that cause text mode Setup to fail.
39) DHCP Resources: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
40) Disable Mapped Drive Reconnect Warning: Date - May 10, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Stop the annoying error message about unavailable mapped network drives or shares.
41) Disable NTs 8.3 aliases for LFNs under NTFS: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Disable
42) Disable OS/2 and/or Posix subsystems: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Disable - Hide
43) Disabling File and Folder Compression: Date - May 16, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to disable file/folder compression on Windows Vista.
44) Disabling IPv6 in Windows Vista: Date - Jan 07, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Registry Hacks; To save resources, you might want to completely disable the "new" IP protocol.
45) Disabling System Speaker Output from Virtual Server: Date - Dec 07, 2006; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Virtual Platforms; The type of beep a virtual machine can push out from a virtual server is something that you may be dying to disable. This is how you do it.
46) Disk Cleanup in Windows Vista: Date - Oct 02, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Misc; Windows Vista is just like any other operating system in that it uses a whole variety of temporary storage that must be cleaned occasionally. Here is how to do it.
47) Domain Logon Timeout for NetLogon due to slow WAN: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
48) Drag and Drop: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
49) Drive letters and USB multi-card readers: Date - Jun 18, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to get rid of drive letter clutter with readers for memory cards.
50) Dual Booting Windows 2000: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Booting
51) Dual Booting Windows 2000 and NT: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Installation
52) DumpEvt exports event logs into format suitable for importing into a database: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Event Logs
53) DumpReg dumps the registry in text format: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Registry
54) DynamicSiteName and SiteName – Which site a client computer belongs to?: Date - Jul 30, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; If you are troubleshooting a client computer which always communicates to a domain controller in different site, you should look at the two registry entries explained in this article. This article applies to Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
55) Enable GodMode for a Supercharged Control Panel: Date - Oct 27, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Admin; Quickly access tasks and settings via this advanced control panel view.
56) Enable Viewing of All Processes for Non-Administrative Users on a Terminal Server: Date - Feb 07, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; Terminal Servers typically only displays the processes for all users logged on to it to administrators. You can change that with a simple registry hack.
57) Enabling Jumbo Frames for Improved Data Transfer: Date - Jun 28, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; Jumbo frames are not anything new but they are often forgotten about. Enabling them may provide a bit of a performance boost. This tip shows how to do that.
58) Enhanced IDE Under Windows NT: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
59) Eraser : securely deletes files: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities; free advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
60) Essential Steps for Upgrading to Vista: Date - Feb 21, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; What you need to do before upgrading to Vista.