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Latest "Windows XP" Tips

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151) Eliminating the Welcome Screen: Date - Oct 26, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to prevent the Welcome screen from running when your users turn on their OEM-supplied XP boxes for the first time.
152) Wipe Your Drive: Date - Oct 12, 2005; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Hard drives should be wiped clean before disposing of them.
153) Remove Unused Drivers and Devices: Date - Sep 16, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - TroubleShooting; If you remove a piece of hardware, particularly USB devices that may be frequently swapped out, without first Uninstalling it in Device Manager, the drivers remain behind, but the device no longer shows up in Device Manager by default.
154) Using Users to Test Patches: Date - Sep 15, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; You can use your own users to test patches for client OSes and applications, if you do it the right way.
155) Reliable File and Folder Sharing in Windows XP: Date - Sep 01, 2005; Rating - 2.8; Author - Varun Sud; Section - Network; Explains how to share files and folders in Windows XP over a network. It was written specifically because users in our college network had unpredictable results in sharing files over LAN on Windows XP.
156) Get the Latest ADM Files: Date - Jul 12, 2005; Rating - 2.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to obtain the latest Administrative Template files from Microsoft.
157) Group Policy and Laptops: Date - Jul 07, 2005; Rating - 2.1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Common misconception concerning laptops and Group Policy.
158) Troubleshoot With Network Diagnostics: Date - Jun 23, 2005; Rating - 2.8; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - TroubleShooting; Windows XP includes a handy tool called Network Diagnostics which can be used to gather a variety of information which can be helpful for troubleshooting.
159) XP SP2 Breaks Group Policy: Date - Jun 09, 2005; Rating - 2.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Resolving an issue with adm files in XP SP2.
160) Find Out When Policy Last Applied: Date - Jun 08, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to find out when Group Policy was last applied to a remote machine.
161) Refresh Group Policy Remotely: Date - Jun 06, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to refresh Group Policy remotely from the command line.
162) Point At URL BEFORE You Click: Date - May 19, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; Many spam offers and phishing scams trick users into going to a web site that has nothing to do with what the URL appears to link to. Before you click, take a look at the true URL behind the link.
163) Manage Shadow Copies on Client Machines: Date - May 12, 2005; Rating - 2.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Utilities; Did you know you can manage shadow copies on the client side from the command line?
164) Remove Patch Uninstall Folders To Clean Hard Drive: Date - May 04, 2005; Rating - 3.4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; 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.
165) Use Shortcuts To Navigate Explorer Folders: Date - Apr 26, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows Explorer is a fairly functional tool for browsing files and folders and finding what you are looking for. But, depending on how large and how organized your hard drive is, it may take some time to sift through to the folder you really want. Using command line parameters, you can create desktop shortcuts that take you quickly to your most-used folders.
166) Prevent Ordinary Users From Installing Devices: Date - Apr 06, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Enhance security by preventing ordinary users from being able to install devices.
167) Map Your Network For Better Protection and Incident Response: Date - Apr 01, 2005; Rating - 3.7; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; It is difficult to protect devices that you don't even know exist. In larger enterprises it is very easy to lose track of the asset inventory which leads to complacency about rogue devices. In order to effectively protect the network and to respond to incidents efficiently, an updated asset inventory and network map should always be handy.
168) Protect Wireless Access Using MAC Address Filters: Date - Mar 22, 2005; Rating - 4.1; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Wireless networks add a significant level of convenience for many users. The ability to roam at will and access the network without adding wires is quite useful. But, you need to do so securely. There are a number of basic steps you should take to protect your wireless network and filtering MAC addresses is one more way to secure it.
169) Disabling the RunAs Command: Date - Mar 22, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; To enhance security you can prevent users from using the RunAs command.
170) 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.
171) Find It Fast With Desktop Search Tools: Date - Mar 10, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Hard drive space has gotten cheaper and the size of the drives has grown to enormous proportions. That is great for saving data, but makes it increasingly difficult to find what you're looking for when you need it. Enter the desktop search tools to help solve that problem.
172) Disable Enumeration of SID's: Date - Mar 08, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; One way for an attacker to scope out a target system and, particularly, to identify the Administrator account so they can focus their efforts on the account with the most privileges is to list, or enumerate, the SID's (serial identifiers) on a Windows machine.
173) Internet Connection Sharing with Windows 2000 Professional acts a proxy server: Date - Mar 07, 2005; Rating - 3.3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network and Security
174) Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA): Date - Mar 07, 2005; Rating - 3.7; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
175) Rename The Administrator Account: Date - Feb 25, 2005; Rating - 3.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Some experts say that renaming the Administrator account is pointless. Any worthy hacker knows that the true Administrator account has a unique identifier and how to find it. But, that doesn't mean you need to make it easy for the hackers who aren't worthy.
176) National Security Agency : Security Recommendation Guides: Date - Feb 23, 2005; Rating - 4.7; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
177) Configure and Maintain AutoComplete: Date - Feb 16, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Microsoft Internet Explorer offers the AutoComplete feature to remember past entries and automatically pre-populate fields as you type to save you some time and effort. You may find it quite convenient, but having AutoComplete remember username or password information can pose a security risk.
178) Use 'Run As' To Protect The Registry: Date - Jan 25, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Members of the Administrators group typically have full control to modify registry keys. Unwittingly executing a malware-infected or other questionable program with Administrator privileges can result in registry additions or edits which may adversely affect the system. To safeguard the registry without logging out you can use this trick.
179) Undo : Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: Date - Jan 25, 2005; Rating - 1.9; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network and Security
180) Video Drivers : How to Determine Which Video Driver Is Loading in Windows XP: Date - Jan 03, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Drivers