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Miscellaneous Tips

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Discover a Hidden Wireless Network’s SSID (Network Name): Date - Jun 08, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Recover the Network Name from a Wi-Fi network that's not broadcasting its SSID.
How To Delete System Blocked Files: Date - Sep 24, 2008; Rating - 2.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; How to delete Files/Folders which are being blocked by the processes running in the background.
Remove Patch Uninstall Folders To Clean Hard Drive: Date - May 04, 2005; Rating - 3.3; Author - Tony Bradley; Hard drives are cheap and people typically have more space than they know what to do with these days. But, that is no reason to just waste it. When you install Windows patches, hidden folders are created which contain the uninstall data. Viewing the hidden data on my computer, I found 50 or so patch uninstall folders taking up over 500 Mb of space on my drive.
Set i386 Source Path: Date - Nov 11, 2004; Rating - 3.7; Author - Chris Calderon; Get rid of an annoying message when you try to add or remove Windows components.
Use Sendto to edit files in XP/W2K: Date - Jun 22, 2004; Rating - 3.9; Author - Wayne Maples
DOS Windows Titles: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.3; Author - Wayne Maples
Drag and Drop: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples
Windows 2000 Device Drivers: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.5; Author - Wayne Maples
Command Interpreter Ansi Support: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.8; Author - Wayne Maples
Lie to incompatible programs: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples
NT/W2K/XP DOS windows options: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.8; Author - Wayne Maples
Force End Task option at Shutdown: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.8; Author - Wayne Maples
Add Command Prompt to folder context menus: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.3; Author - Wayne Maples
Disable Windows Scripting Host ( WSH ): Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples
Manually Remove Windows 2000 and Restore Windows 95/98: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Undo : Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1.2; Author - Wayne Maples
Get real time information about all running processes and threads: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1; Author - Wayne Maples
Windows 2000 RC2 Beta3 Evaluation expire date: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples
Windows NT2000 Supports Large Hard Drives: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.4; Author - Wayne Maples
Bypass W2K logon screen: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.8; Author - Wayne Maples
Control Numlock key: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples
Latest Hardware Compatibility Lists: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1; Author - Wayne Maples
Microsoft Support Policy on Hardware Not On Windows NT HCL: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Troubleshoot Problems with Standby Mode, Hibernate Mode, and Shutdown in Windows 2000: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.3; Author - Wayne Maples
Microsoft's Frequently Asked Questions & Highlights: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Comparison of ME, Win9x, NT, W2K, XP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Error Message When You Run fixmbr Command (Q266745): Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.5; Author - Wayne Maples
E-Mail Attachment Safety - How to avoid getting infected by E-Mail Worms, Viruses and Trojans: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
mailto: email shortcut: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.7; Author - Wayne Maples
Windows 2000 Event: 2506 IRPStackSize Error: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples
Adding / Removing Windows 2000 Components: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples
Q164501: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Win9x and Windows 2000 and DOS: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples
Windows 2000 Command Prompt Shell Options: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.3; Author - Wayne Maples
security risks of cable modems: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Technet CD Product key for 120 day evaluation: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.1; Author - Wayne Maples
Disable FindFast, the Indexing Service: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.2; Author - Wayne Maples
Windows XP versus Windows 2000 Performance: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1.4; Author - Wayne Maples