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Howto: Disabling Driver Signing in Windows Vista 64 bit
A security feature of Windows Vista 64 bit version is that unsigned drivers will not load. I’m all for increased...
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Howto: Disable Windows Simple File Sharing via the Registry and Local Security Policy
Microsoft KB 307874 describes how to disable Windows XP Professional’s simple file sharing. Why would you want to disable simple...
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Creating and Updating Outlook Profiles using PRF Files
We do the majority of desktop deployment using imaging. Imaging allows us to bypass most of the redundant manual desktop...
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Howto: Disable Windows XP Security Center Nag Screens via the Registry
I control most of my networked computers’ Windows desktop firewalls through Group Policy. I have a few workstations that aren’t...
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Howto: Move the Microsoft Office MSOCache Directory to a Different Drive
Some of our older laptops are starting run short on free space on the system partition. The MSOCache is a...
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HowTo: Enable Windows Debug Logging to Solve Authentication Problems
I’ve had some authentication problems of late on one of my Windows 2000/2003 networks, so I decided to enable Net...
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HowTo: Use clip.exe to Redirect Command Line Output to the Windows Clipboard
I was browsing the Windows Server Command Line Reference today and came across clip.exe. I was not familiar with this...
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HowTo: Extract Files from a .MSI File using the Windows Command Line
Every once in a while I need to extract the content of a .msi file in order to customize a...
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Howto: Using AD Restore and PSexec to Remotely Restore a Deleted Object from Active Directory
I was surfing while installing Windows 2003 servers today, and came across AD Explorer. This utility is from Sysinternals (now...
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HowTo: Silently Install VNC onto a Remote Windows PC
I have a client that wanted to be able to remotely access an employee’s computer, but didn’t want to use...
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HowTo: Enable Remote Desktop on a Windows XP Machine – Remotely
I’ve been configuring my LAN for spiceworks this afternoon. The Windows XP firewall is enabled on most of our PCs,...