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241) SCSI Ports: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hardware; SCSI Port registry keys.
242) Remove Unused Drivers and Devices: Date - Sep 16, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - TroubleShooting; If you remove a piece of hardware, particularly USB devices that may be frequently swapped out, without first Uninstalling it in Device Manager, the drivers remain behind, but the device no longer shows up in Device Manager by default.
243) Remove Administrative Shares: Date - Jan 20, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Windows creates hidden Administrative Shares at the root of each drive and to the system root folder to allow administrators to remotely access the data. If a server or workstation will not be administered remotely or has no need for the Administrative Shares though, they should be removed so that they don't provide a potential attack vector for a hacker or malware to enter the system.
244) Remove Shared Documents folders from My Computer System Folder: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
245) Registry Tip : TCP Max User Port: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; TCP normal user ports 1024-5000. To move higher.
246) NT ERD - never there when you need it: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - TroubleShooting
247) No hard drive detected during Windows NT install: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - TroubleShooting
248) Pruning Old Computer Accounts in AD: Date - May 25, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; In large organizations the task of keeping Active Directory cleansed of inactive computer accounts can be daunting. Here are a few ways to ease the process.
249) Prevent logon screensaver from launching: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
250) Keyboard Buffer Size: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hardware; Fast typist? Overrunning the keyboard buffer in NT? Increase the buffer size..
251) Make Outlook minimize to system tray rather than task bar: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
252) Lockdown by group using Local Computer Policy without Active Directory: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
253) Manually Deleting a Network Bridge: Date - Jun 03, 2009; Rating - 4.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Getting around the error message when deleting in the Network Connections window.
254) Microsoft Management Console (MMC): Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
255) IE Booster: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - IE and Explorer
256) IE Content Advisor Password: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - IE and Explorer
257) How To Take System State Backup In Server Core: Date - Oct 14, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; Take System State backup in Server Core.
258) How to install a network printer only once for all users of the NT workstation.: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Print
259) How to play CD audio through digital speakers: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hardware
260) How to Remotely Reconfigure IP from Static Addressing to DHCP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
261) Installing MSI Packages with Elevated Privileges: Date - Jan 18, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Want to right-click on a .msi file and select Run As? Here's how!
262) Introducing the Read-Only Domain Controller: Date - Jun 03, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; A new Windows Server 2008 feature that is drawing great praise is the introduction of the Read-Only Domain Controller. Let’s look at what this means to you.
263) Enable / Disable Task Manager in Windows 2000: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Restriction
264) Enable Security Event Logging: Date - Dec 16, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Installing an alarm system on your home or car can be an effective way of at least being alerted when some sort of intrusion has been attempted. Of course, they don't work very well when they aren't enabled. Windows XP comes with the means to detect and log security events so that you can monitor and respond to intrusions or attempted security breaches, however it is not enabled by default.
265) Edit the Registry of a Vista Image: Date - Feb 27, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to edit the registry of a captured image.
266) Environmental variable available for login scripts: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Logon
267) Enabling Remote Desktop on a Remote Machine: Date - Apr 13, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; What if you want to use Remote Desktop on a server that's already off-site? Here's how to do it.
268) Enabling the NumLock Key: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
269) Hidden Windows NT Administrative Shares C$ D$: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hide
270) Get Rid of FindFast: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization