When you receive a STOP error, Windows displays the STOP on a Blue screen, hence the name BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). If you prefer a Red screen with White text, or any other color combination that is easier for you to see: 1. Open %SystemRoot%SYSTEM.INI in Notepad.exe. 2. Locate the [386enh] section. 3. If […]
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Windows XP Product Key Viewer
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server […]
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How can I burn a CD-ROM image from the command line?
The Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP resource kits provide the cdburn.exe utility, which, like the dvdburn.exe utility, can burn an ISO file to a physical CD burner drive and uses the format cdburn <drive>: <image> Typing cdburn with no parameters will list the utility’s Help information, which includes additional options related to the speed […]
How can I migrate shares and their data between servers?
Microsoft provides the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT), which you can download from Here . The tool lets you migrate shares and data from any server running Windows NT 4.0 or later to a Windows Server 2003 (or Windows Storage Server 2003) machine. The utility also interfaces with DFS, which lets you maintain the […]
When you attempt to install Office 2003 on Windows XP, you receive ‘ERROR 1921’?
While installing Office 2003 on Windows XP, you receive a message similar to: ERROR 1921 Service ‘MDM’ could not be stopped. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to stop system services. This behavior occurs if the Machine Debug Manager service is not configured to start automatically. To resolve this problem: 1. Open a CMD.EXE window. […]
Are there any registry keys or files that the account specified for a performance alert requires?
When you create a performance alert, by default it runs as the Network Service account. However, you can specify a different account for its execution. If you specify another account, ensure that the named account has the following rights: * Read access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionPerflib * Full Access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSysmonLog and its subkeys * Read […]
How can I use a script to delete a computer from a domain?
The following code will delete the passed computer name (e.g., “delme”) from the alibutt domain. Dim objDC Dim strComputer, strDomain strComputer = “delme” strDomain = “alibutt” Set objDC = getobject(“WinNT://” & strDomain ) objDC.Delete “Computer”, strComputer
Can I disable the Message Transfer Agent (MTA) on Microsoft Exchange Server 2003?
Microsoft has changed its stance about disabling the MTA on Exchange Server 2003. In Exchange 2000 Server, you couldn’t disable the MTA, but because of limitations with the MTA in cluster environments and because its primary use is for communicating with Exchange 5.5 servers, Exchange 2003 lets you disable the MTA. The main problem with […]