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91) Use Shortcuts To Navigate Explorer Folders: Date - Apr 26, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows Explorer is a fairly functional tool for browsing files and folders and finding what you are looking for. But, depending on how large and how organized your hard drive is, it may take some time to sift through to the folder you really want. Using command line parameters, you can create desktop shortcuts that take you quickly to your most-used folders.
92) Prevent Ordinary Users From Installing Devices: Date - Apr 06, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Enhance security by preventing ordinary users from being able to install devices.
93) Map Your Network For Better Protection and Incident Response: Date - Apr 01, 2005; Rating - 3.7; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; It is difficult to protect devices that you don't even know exist. In larger enterprises it is very easy to lose track of the asset inventory which leads to complacency about rogue devices. In order to effectively protect the network and to respond to incidents efficiently, an updated asset inventory and network map should always be handy.
94) Protect Wireless Access Using MAC Address Filters: Date - Mar 22, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Wireless networks add a significant level of convenience for many users. The ability to roam at will and access the network without adding wires is quite useful. But, you need to do so securely. There are a number of basic steps you should take to protect your wireless network and filtering MAC addresses is one more way to secure it.
95) Disabling the RunAs Command: Date - Mar 22, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; To enhance security you can prevent users from using the RunAs command.
96) Google Yourself To Identify Security Holes: Date - Mar 15, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Google is very good at what it does. It automatically and systematically catalogues every document, image, web site or other data that is web accessible so that it can be quickly retrieved using the Google search engine. That includes potentially sensitive or confidential data that wasn't intended to be shared publicly. Google your own network or sites to identify possible security holes.
97) Find It Fast With Desktop Search Tools: Date - Mar 10, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Hard drive space has gotten cheaper and the size of the drives has grown to enormous proportions. That is great for saving data, but makes it increasingly difficult to find what you're looking for when you need it. Enter the desktop search tools to help solve that problem.
98) Disable Enumeration of SID's: Date - Mar 08, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; One way for an attacker to scope out a target system and, particularly, to identify the Administrator account so they can focus their efforts on the account with the most privileges is to list, or enumerate, the SID's (serial identifiers) on a Windows machine.
99) Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA): Date - Mar 07, 2005; Rating - 3.6; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
100) Rename The Administrator Account: Date - Feb 25, 2005; Rating - 3.4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Some experts say that renaming the Administrator account is pointless. Any worthy hacker knows that the true Administrator account has a unique identifier and how to find it. But, that doesn't mean you need to make it easy for the hackers who aren't worthy.
101) National Security Agency : Security Recommendation Guides: Date - Feb 23, 2005; Rating - 4.7; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
102) Configure and Maintain AutoComplete: Date - Feb 16, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Microsoft Internet Explorer offers the AutoComplete feature to remember past entries and automatically pre-populate fields as you type to save you some time and effort. You may find it quite convenient, but having AutoComplete remember username or password information can pose a security risk.
103) Use 'Run As' To Protect The Registry: Date - Jan 25, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Members of the Administrators group typically have full control to modify registry keys. Unwittingly executing a malware-infected or other questionable program with Administrator privileges can result in registry additions or edits which may adversely affect the system. To safeguard the registry without logging out you can use this trick.
104) Video Drivers : How to Determine Which Video Driver Is Loading in Windows XP: Date - Jan 03, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Drivers
105) Shared printer separator page for Windows 2000 and Windows XP: Date - Dec 17, 2004; Rating - 4.2; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
106) Configure Account Lockout Policies: Date - Dec 01, 2004; Rating - 3.8; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Given enough time and potential to try multiple username and password combinations an attacker might eventually succeed in compromising the security of a server or other computer. Account lockout policies allow you to set thresholds to automatically shut down an account if too many incorrect username and password combinations are attempted in order to protect the machine.
107) Remove Saved Passwords: Date - Nov 18, 2004; Rating - 4.4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Windows XP offers the ability to save passwords for web sites and network resources. This can be very convenient as opposed to remembering and entering the username and password each time you need access, but it poses a security risk because anyone who has physical access to your computer would also be able to log into those sites using your saved credentials.
108) Sample security policies and guidelines: Date - Nov 09, 2004; Rating - 2.4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
109) Recover Lost Windows NT Administrator Password: Date - Sep 07, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
110) Windows XP Common Problems and Gotcha's: Date - Sep 07, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - TroubleShooting
111) Use Sendto to edit files in XP/W2K: Date - Jun 22, 2004; Rating - 3.9; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
112) Keyboard shortcuts to folders: Date - May 22, 2004; Rating - 3.8; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
113) Troubleshooting Windows XP Shutdown and Restart problems: Date - May 10, 2004; Rating - 2.7; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - TroubleShooting
114) Turnoff port 1900 broadcasts from Windows Messenger: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
115) Use netsh to configure your laptop's nic for different networks: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities
116) Use pushd to help you get back: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.8; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities
117) Use the Character Map application: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.8; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities
118) Using Notepad and Wordpad: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities
119) Using Software Restriction Policies to Protect Against Unauthorized Software: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
120) SmbRelay captures NTLM hashes: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network