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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