Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 26 Jan. 2006
• Section: TroubleShooting

Here's an improved troubleshooting utility from Microsoft you should know about... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 25 Jan. 2006
• Section: Miscellaneous

How System Restore can cause users to lose files, and what to do about it... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 24 Jan. 2006
• Section: Security

Given enough privileges, a user can often circumvent Group Policy restrictions. Here's what you can do about it... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 19 Jan. 2006
• Section: Customization

In a previous tip I showed how you can open Internet Explorer by using the batch file e.bat from a command line... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 18 Jan. 2006
• Section: Security

Want to right-click on a .msi file and select Run As? Here's how!... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 17 Jan. 2006
• Section: Security

Group Policy can be a minefield and some policy settings are best left unchanged... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 12 Jan. 2006
• Section: IE and Explorer

Here's a simple way you can run Internet Explorer from the command line... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 10 Jan. 2006
• Section: Admin

I run my main workstation as an ordinary domain user, but I frequently need to perform administrator tasks with it too... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 5 Jan. 2006
• Section: Customization

Managing devices on XP desktops requires admin-level credentials, but what if your users don't have such credentials and yet you want to let them manage their own devices?... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 4 Jan. 2006
• Section: Network and Security

While conventional wisdom is that Administrator accounts should have long, complex passwords, this is not always so... Read More