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Miscellaneous Tips

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Add Take Ownership Option to Right-Click Menu: Date - Feb 08, 2012; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Quickly change ownership of a file or folder to the current logged on user.
Disable Mapped Drive Reconnect Warning: Date - May 10, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Stop the annoying error message about unavailable mapped network drives or shares.
Change Network Bridge Settings: Date - May 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Change the Forwarding and/or STA settings of Network Bridges in Windows.
Load Balancing Among Multiple Network Adapters: Date - May 04, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Make Windows randomly distribute connections across muliple network adapters.
Respond to WINS Queries with Only One IP when Using Multiple Adapters: Date - May 04, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Eric Geier; Make Windows respond to WINS queries with one IP instead of all IPs of the muliple adapters.
A Quick Tip To Prevent NetLogon Service From Registering SRV and Domain Records: Date - Jan 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can use a registry hack to prevent NetLogon from registering SRV, CNAME and Domain DNS Records in the DNS Server.
A Quick Tip To Prevent Registration Of A and GC Records For Domain Controllers: Date - Jan 04, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can prevent NetLogon service from registering A record for Domain Name and Global Catalog.
A Quick Tip To Change RPC Port Range: Date - Dec 29, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the MaxUserPort registry entry for RPC.
A Quick Tip To Check Operating System Architecture: Date - Nov 30, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This tip explains how you can check Operating System architecture on a computer running Windows Operating System.
How To Backup Shared Folders List On A Computer: Date - Nov 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can save the Shared Folders list on a computer.
Force Windows Servers To Log An Event Entry For Disk Space: Date - Nov 17, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a registry hack you can use to configure Disk Space Threshold on Windows Servers.
Change the Owner or Organization Name of Windows: Date - Nov 03, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; How to modify the names you inputted during the Windows install.
Registry Hack To Disable Automatic Launching Of Menu In Windows Server 2008 Core R2: Date - Jun 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a registry heck which you can use to disable the automatic launching of Menu when Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2 starts. This applies to Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2 only!
What Is Strict Replication and How Do You Enable?: Date - Sep 08, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains Strict Replication and how you enable it on the domain controllers in the Forest.
AvoidPDCOnWan and PDC Emulator: Date - Mar 19, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can control a domain controller contacting a PDC which is out of the site.
A Quick Tip To Disable "Initial Configuration Tasks List": Date - Feb 26, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can disable the Initial Configuration Task List at logon.
How to run your own application when Windows Starts?: Date - Sep 17, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a registry entry which you can use to run your application instead of Windows default Shell (Explorer.exe).