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1. Use the Registry Editor to navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced. 2. Double-click the StartMenuAdminTools Value Name, a DWORD data type. 3. Set to data value to: 0 – Don’t display this item. 1 – Display on the All Programs menu and the Start menu. 2 – Display on the All Programs menu. 4. Press OK.

When you issue a PING command, you may receive either of the following: PING: transmit failed, error code 10050 PING: Transmit failed, error code 65. This failure is generally the result of having a firewall program blocking the PING or blocking ICMP Echo and/or Echo Reply packets. Check your program documentation for how to allow […]

1. Copy / Paste the following to a NoMessenger.REG file: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftMessengerClient] “PreventRun”=dword:00000001 “PreventAutoRun”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookInstantMessaging] “ForceDisableIM”=dword:00000001 2. Run Regedit /s NoMSN.REG

To run programs for all users who log on to your Telnet server, and to change the Telnet banner: 1. Open the %SystemRoot%System32Login.cmd file in Notepad. 2. Change to the echo Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Server statement to the banner you want, such as echo Welcome to JSI, Inc. Telnet Server on Server: %computername%. 3. […]

After you make a Remote Desktop connection, the remote desktop is displayed in its’ own Window. To gain access to the drives of the remote computer: Press Start / Programs / Accessories / Communications / Remote Desktop Connection. Press Options and select the Local Resources tab. Press Disk Drives and Connect. The remote drives are […]

To use the default Gina (msgina.dll) for Terminal Server clients: 1. Use the Registry Editor to navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminal ServerWinStationsRDP-Tcp 2. Edit or Add Value name fUseDefaultGina, a REG_DWORD data type, and set the data value to 1 (0x1).

Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a downside to this and because the computer has to index all files, it will slow down normal file commands like open, close, etc. If you do not […]

The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up. […]

If you get an error that NTOSKRNL not found: Insert and boot from your WindowsXP CD. At the first R=Repair option, press the R key Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair. Typically this will be #1 Change to the drive that has the […]

If the System32 folder shows on the desktop, there may be an invalid entry in the Registry Start Regedit Go to both: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun Double check that the values do not have incorrect, incomplete, or blank entries