To quickly export your IP (inc dns / wins) settings to a text file, use the following command: netsh -c interface dump > c:\work-net.txt When you connect to another LAN netsh -c interface dump > c:\home.txt Once you have everything in a text file, you can use this command to import the settings depending on […]
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Un-hide Components from Add/Remove List
Most Windows components can be uninstalled by going to Add/Remove Windows Components in the Control Panel. But what about ones that you don’t find? You know that they’re on there somewhere, so how do you get rid of them? Well, it’s actually not too hard to bring these out of hiding. Hidden in the C:WINNTINF […]
When you run OneNote 2003 on a Terminal Server client, the colors for menus and tabs are made of colored dots and crosshatches?
The subject appearance, often called pixilated, occurs if the client display is set for 256 colors (8-bit), because OneNote 2003 is optimized for a 16-bit color depth, or greater. NOTE: OneNote 2003 menus and tabs use gradients to shade one color into another, and gradients cannot be displayed at an 8-bit color depth. To workaround […]
How can I enable Internet Printing under Microsoft IIS?
The Internet Printing feature isn’t a default component of IIS. To enable it, you must install it as follows: 1. Start the Add or Remove Programs Control Panel applet (Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs). 2. Double-click the Add/Remove Windows Components button. 3. Select Application Server and click Details. 4. Select Internet Information […]
When I connect a client to a Windows Server 2000 or later Terminal Services server, how can I tell the client to connect via a nonstandard port?
Typically, when you connect to a Windows-based terminal server, you connect to port 3389. However, if someone has changed the listening port on the terminal server (by changing the value of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminal ServerWinStationsRDP-TcpPortNumber subkey), you need to tell the client to connect to the new port. To do so, add a colon and the […]
Windows Update hangs when you attempt to download and install updates?
This behavior can be the result incorrect DCOM settings. Windows XP 1. Open a CMD.EXE window, type dcomcnfg, and press Enter. 2. Expand Component Services. 3. Expand Computers. 4. Right-click My Computer in the right-hand pane and press Properties. 5. Select the COM Security tab. 6. Press Edit Limits under Access Permissions. 7. If the […]
How can I enable Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 to display filenames that have no extension?
Although the ability to display file that have no extensions was available by default in IIS 5.0, Microsoft has removed that default option from IIS 6.0. To re-enable the ability to display file types that have no extensions, follow these steps: 1.Click Start and select Programs, Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. 2.Expand the […]
What is Grabber?
Grabber freeware allows you to make screenshots of a remote computer. You must have administrative privileges on Computer name. Someone must be logged on to Computer name. Grabber.exe works on Windows 2000 and newer. Download here
Freeware Caffeine prevents your PC from locking or going to sleep
Run this to prevent your PC screen from locking. It does this by simulating that you’ve pressed the shift key once every 59 seconds. Double-click the icon to temporarily disable Caffeine, and permit your screen to lock. Under Win98: a key down and then a key up event is simulated Under Win2000/XP: a key up […]
What is DropMyRights?
“DropMyRights is a very simple application to help users who must run as an administrator run applications in a much-safer context—that of a non-administrator. It does this by taking the current user’s token, removing various privileges and SIDs from the token, and then using that token to start another process, such as Internet Explorer or […]