June, 2004 Archive

Windows Logo Key

The Windows logo key, located in the bottom row of most computer keyboards is a little-used treasure. Don’t ignore it. It is the shortcut anchor for the following commands: Windows: Display the Start menu Windows D: Minimize or restore all windows Windows E: Display Windows Explorer Windows F: Display Search for files Windows Ctrl F: […]

Get Rid of Unwanted Balloon Tips

Get Rid of Unwanted Balloon Tips Open up the Registry Editor and expand the tree to display the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer Advanced Then, created a new DWORD value named EnableBalloonTips and set it to 0x00000000.

Remove Windows Media Player 9 in XP

Start – run – type RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:windowsinfwmp.inf,Uninstall

Attachment Options for Outlook 2000 SP3 or higher, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003

Attachment Options is a COM add-in for Outlook 2000 SP3 or higher, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 that provides a user interface for changing which file types are restricted as Level 1 attachments. Level 1 attachments are hidden by Outlook, and cannot be seen, saved or opened from Outlook items. Moving an attachment extension to […]

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry That Prevents Windows XP from Starting

This article describes how to recover a Windows XP system that does not start because of corruption in the registry. This procedure does not guarantee full recovery of the system to a previous state; however, you should be able to recover data when you use this procedure.Warning Do not use the procedure that is described […]

Reset Domain Admin Password in Windows 2000 AD

Use the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor disk disk to reset the MACHINE Administrator password to “no password”. Reboot, hit F8, and enter “Directory Service Recovery Mode”. The machine will boot up as a standalone server without any Active Directory support. When the login screen appears, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and log in as “Administrator” with […]

Installing Service Pack 3 for MSDE

To upgrade your MSDE installation to SP3 follow these steps: 1. Stop MSDE service. 2. Download SQL2KDeskSP3.exe and double-click the file. You will be prompted to create a SQL2KSP3 folder on your c: drive. 3. After the files are extracted in the SQL2KSP3 directory, use the command line to change to the SQL2KSP3/MSDE directory. 4. […]

How To Open A Port Range On A Cisco Router

Lets say you want application AAA to have access to UDP ports 5000 to 5020. Your internal address is 192.168.0.1. First create a rotary pool for inside NAT host. Then do a destination NAT with a extended access list: “ip nat pool AAA 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 type rotary access-list 102 permit udp any any […]

How to change the IP ports that pcAnywhere uses

Some firewalls allow only a single pcAnywhere host to use an IP port. Additional pcAnywhere hosts behind that firewall must use different ports. You want to know how to change these ports, have a look at: Link cualquier medicamento Llame de emergencia por s� facilita su envase original perfectamente cerrado y cansancio) Sildenafil no suspenda […]

Proxying MS Exchange OWA with Apache

Although trickier than IIS, it is possible to present OWA through apache. Link