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661) Disable First-Run Dialog in Internet Explorer 7: Date - Jul 19, 2007; Rating - 2.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Applications; The first-run dialog in Internet Explorer 7 is great for the individual user, but in a large network environment this is something you would typically prefer your users not to have to deal with. Here is how we fix it.
662) 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.
663) Breaking into a command prompt in Windows PE: Date - Apr 24, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to open a command prompt during the Windows PE phase of Windows Setup for Vista.
664) Switch between DOS Full-Screen and Windowed modes: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.6; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
665) Netbt.sys crashes with Stop 0xA upon receiving broadcast address 0.0.0.0: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - TroubleShooting
666) Active Ports for NT/2000/XP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
667) Keyboard Buffer Size: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hardware; Fast typist? Overrunning the keyboard buffer in NT? Increase the buffer size..
668) Redirecting Command Line Output to the Clipboard: Date - Aug 24, 2006; Rating - 4.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows Server 2003 has a great feature which allows you to pipe output from the command line to the clipboard. Here is how to use it.
669) WINS Tombstoning: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
670) ICEpack and BlackICE Intrustion Protection: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities
671) Running admin commands on a workstation: Date - Nov 23, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to run admin commands on a workstation when you are logged on as a non-admin.
672) Enable MP3 encoding in Windows XP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1.6; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
673) Windows 2000 USB Permissions: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
674) Where is Sysprep in Vista?: Date - Apr 15, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Where can you find the Sysprep.exe utility in Vista?
675) Tool for slipstreaming patches: Date - Oct 06, 2005; Rating - 1.6; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; It's not easy to slipstream a bunch of patches properly into Windows.
676) Registry Tip : Determine NIC Address: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1.6; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; Reliable method of obtaining the NIC address programmatically.
677) Avoid Overuse of Protected Groups: Date - Dec 07, 2005; Rating - 2.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; protected groups, user rights, PDC Emulator
678) Terrific Resource for Windows Security Log: Date - Jul 05, 2005; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Here's a terrific resource for the Security log that every Windows admin should know about.
679) Move Windows NT servers to another domain or change from member to domain controller: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
680) How to Move a WINS Database to Another Server: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
681) Use pushd to help you get back: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.8; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Command Prompt
682) Compressed (Zipped) versus Compression Folders in XP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
683) Security Log Settings: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
684) Automating Disk Defragmentation: Date - Jun 22, 2006; Rating - 4.3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 both include a new way to invoke the Windows defragmenter via the command line. This allows for easy automation of this task.
685) Set Up Your Computer for Remote Desktop: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
686) Enabling Windows Firewall on domain controllers: Date - Aug 08, 2007; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Steps for enabling WF on domain controllers.
687) Getting past the size limit for roaming profiles: Date - May 03, 2007; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Networking; How to enable really big roaming user profiles if needed i.e. roam a lot of stuff.
688) Configure Windows XP to automatically reopen folders in Explorer upon logon: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.9; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
689) Auditing Access to Sensitive Data: Date - Jul 06, 2005; Rating - 1.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to see who's accessing sensitive files on a server.
690) Most Recently Used Documents: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.7; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - IE and Explorer