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Latest "Windows Vista" Tips

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31) Copying User Profiles: Date - Apr 14, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; How to copy user profile folders in Vista and later.
32) Deleting User Profiles: Date - Apr 09, 2009; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; How to properly (and improperly) delete a user profile.
33) Preventing Wireless Connection to Certain Networks in Vista/Server 2008: Date - Apr 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Networking; Windows Vista and Server 2008 include Netsh Commands specifically for WLANs, which let you block access to specified wireless networks.
34) Free Network Analyzers/Sniffers for Windows: Date - Apr 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Misc; Several tools to see a network's raw packets for troubleshooting or security audits.
35) Importing/Exporting Wireless Profiles in Vista/Server 2008: Date - Apr 07, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Networking; Windows Vista and Server 2008 include Netsh Commands specifically for WLANs, which let you import and export wireless network profiles.
36) Free Online Network Security Auditors/Scanners: Date - Apr 01, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Misc; Several free online tools to test your network's integrity.
37) Getting XP Computers to Appear on Network Map: Date - Apr 01, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Troubleshooting; Installing LLTD protocol on XP, so PC will appear on Vista's Network Map
38) Configuring a central store for ADMX templates: Date - Mar 10, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; Windows Vista and later have a way of reducing the SYSVOL bloat that happens with Group Policy in earlier versions of Windows.
39) Securing Windows images using permissions: Date - Mar 04, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Customized Windows images may contain sensitive or proprietary information. Here's a tip on how to secure your images using permissions when using Windows Deployment Services.
40) WinRE partitions and Vista SP1: Date - Mar 03, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; If you've deployed Vista RTM computers with a WinRE RTM partition, do you have to update the WinRE partition to SP1 when you update your operating system to SP1?
41) Unblocking executable files on Vista: Date - Feb 25, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to get rid of an annoying security dialog.
42) Vista SendTo shortcuts: Date - Feb 25, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Shell (GUI); How can you add entries to the right-click (shortcut) menu in Vista?
43) Creating a Hidden or Administrative Share: Date - Feb 18, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Collaboration and Sharing; Preventing a shared folder or drive from showing in My Network Places and Network
44) Accessing a Hidden or Administrative Share: Date - Feb 18, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Collaboration and Sharing; Bringing up a shared folder or drive you or the system have hidden.
45) Changing Login Credentials for Shared Computers: Date - Feb 17, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Collaboration and Sharing; How to change the username and password used to access a shared resource.
46) Tips for Securing Your Wireless LAN: Date - Feb 04, 2009; Rating - 3.4; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security; Ways to protect your Wi-Fi network from eavesdroppers and hackers.
47) Using ADMX Migrator: Date - Jan 28, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; ADMX Migrator is a useful tool you can use to convert ADM template files to ADMX template files.
48) Preventing processing of local Group Policy: Date - Jan 28, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; In Windows Vista and later you can prevent the processing of local Group Policy by configuring—guess what—a Group Policy setting!
49) Group Policy and Event Logs in Vista: Date - Jan 21, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; In previous versions of Windows, Group Policy information was logged to the System log and additional troubleshooting information could be obtained by enabling Userenv.dll logging.
50) Enabling Group Policy Debug Logging in Vista: Date - Jan 21, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; In Windows Vista and later you can obtain additional detailed information concerning Group Policy processing by enabling debug logging. This can be useful when troubleshooting Group Policy processing issues.
51) Prepping Windows PE for capture: Date - Jan 20, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Prepping a Windows PE build environment removes any components that are present in the component store but have not been installed.
52) Installing updates on Windows PE: Date - Jan 15, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; You can install updates on your Windows PE build environment using the peimg command.
53) Adding device drivers online to Windows PE: Date - Jan 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; You can add device drivers to dynamically when running Windows PE by using the drvload command.
54) Adding device drivers offline to Windows PE: Date - Dec 17, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; You can add device drivers to an offline Windows PE build environment by using the peimg command.
55) Copying applications into Windows PE: Date - Dec 16, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; You can copy applications into your Windows PE build environment by using the xcopy command.
56) Using Netsh to Manage Wireless Connections: Date - Dec 10, 2008; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Networking; Netsh is more powerful now than ever. Here we look at how to use Netsh to manage your wireless network connection properties.
57) Dynamic Port Range in Windows Server 2008: Date - Dec 09, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Networking; This article explains the default Dynamic Port range in Windows Server 2008 and how to see the range using the NetSH command line tool.
58) Performing a Recovery Using Complete PC Restore: Date - Nov 25, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; Here's a simple tip to make sure you are able to properly recover a Vista system from a backup you made using Complete PC Backup.
59) Boosting Vista Startup Performance: Date - Nov 20, 2008; Rating - 4.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How can you improve the startup performance of your Vista computer? Disable SuperFetch!
60) Using Group Policy vs. Registry Tweaks: Date - Nov 18, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; Why is it better to use Group Policy to modify the registry than to use Registry Editor itself?