August, 2005 Archive

How do I disable the Windows XP balloon tips?

To disable the Windows XP Notification Area balloon tips: 1. Use the registry editor to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced. 2. on the Edit menu, press New and DWORD value. 3. Type a Value Name of EnableBalloonTips. 4. Double-click EnableBalloonTips and type 0. Alternately, open a CMD.EXE window and type: REG ADD “HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced” /V EnableBalloonTips /T REG_DWORD […]

How can I determine which groups I’m a member of for my current logon session?

You can use the whoami command with the /groups switch to display all the groups in the currently logged on user token as the following command and output show: whoami /groups C:Documents and Settingsali>whoami /groups [Group 1] = “UKDomain Users” [Group 2] = “Everyone” [Group 3] = “MERCURYDebugger Users” [Group 4] = “BUILTINAdministrators” [Group 5] […]

What will a World Of Warcraft player look like in the year 2030?

  All credit to Pyxelated from Deviantart for the pic