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Latest "User Tips" Tips

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1) Setting Default Email Client Per User in XP: Date - Sep 09, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; Individually change each user's default email client.
2) Drive letters and USB multi-card readers: Date - Jun 18, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to get rid of drive letter clutter with readers for memory cards.
3) Fixing Accidental Enabling of 802.1X for a Network: Date - Jun 03, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; Addressing the "Click here to select a certificate or other credentials for connection to the network" message.
4) Free Network Analyzers/Sniffers for Windows: Date - Apr 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Utilities; Several tools to see a network's raw packets for troubleshooting or security audits.
5) Free Online Network Security Auditors/Scanners: Date - Apr 01, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Utilities; Several free online tools to test your network's integrity.
6) Creating a Hidden or Administrative Share: Date - Feb 18, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; Preventing a shared folder or drive from showing in My Network Places and Network
7) Accessing a Hidden or Administrative Share: Date - Feb 18, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; Bringing up a shared folder or drive you or the system have hidden.
8) Changing Login Credentials for Shared Computers: Date - Feb 17, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; How to change the username and password used to access a shared resource.
9) "Access Is Denied" Error Message When You Try To Delete A File/Folder: Date - Jan 07, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Utilities; This article explains how you can use Process Explorer, a tool from Sysinternals (now subsidiary of Microsoft), to kill the lock on files and folders.
10) Block Write Access To Run and RunOnce Registry Entries.: Date - Oct 01, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Boot; Blocking write access to Run and RunOnce registry entries for malware or other unwanted programs running in the system.
11) Removing the Hand from Icons of Shared Folders: Date - Jun 26, 2008; Rating - 2.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; How to prevent the hand from appearing on the icons of shared resources.
12) Moving the IE7 Toolbar to Its Classic Position: Date - Apr 23, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - IE and Explorer; The biggest uproar I have ever heard from an IE7 upgrade is that the standard toolbar has moved positions. Here is a registry fix to appease your users if they have this same complaint.
13) Turning the Windows XP Wireless Utility On or Off: Date - Apr 03, 2008; Rating - 2; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; How to toggle between your wireless adapter’s configuration utility and Windows XP’s.
14) Reserve Space for the MFT: Date - Jan 09, 2008; Rating - 2.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Performance; Boost NTFS performance by reserving space for the MFT
15) Utilizing the Alternative IP Address: Date - Nov 28, 2007; Rating - 4; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; How to streamline your IP configuration in Windows XP when regularly switching between static and dynamic IP addressing networks.
16) Blocking Web Browsing: Date - Aug 21, 2007; Rating - 1.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - IE and Explorer; How to prevent users from accessing the Web except for certain allowed sites.
17) How to deploy a customized user profile: Date - Feb 01, 2007; Rating - 4.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Customization; How to deploy a customized user profile for users on your network.
18) Using the All Users profile: Date - Jan 30, 2007; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Customization; Let all users on a machine access a shortcut by using the All Users profile.
19) Managing the automatic To-list: Date - May 02, 2006; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; How to remove clutter from the automatic To-list in Outlook.
20) Deleting Empty Folders in Outlook: Date - Mar 08, 2006; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; Tips for deleting undeleting empty folders in Outlook.
21) Turning on Autologon: Date - Feb 01, 2006; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network and Security; A simple way of enabling autologon and when you might want to use it.
22) System Restore and the Desktop: Date - Jan 25, 2006; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How System Restore can cause users to lose files, and what to do about it.
23) Managing devices on XP desktops: Date - Jan 05, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Customization; Managing devices on XP desktops requires admin-level credentials, but what if your users don't have such credentials and yet you want to let them manage their own devices?
24) Administrator account with no password: Date - Jan 04, 2006; Rating - 2.1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network and Security; While conventional wisdom is that Administrator accounts should have long, complex passwords, this is not always so...
25) Avoid Mapped Drives: Date - Nov 10, 2005; Rating - 1.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network and Security; Why mapped drives can be a bad idea on today's networks.
26) Backing up Outlook Express: Date - Nov 09, 2005; Rating - 3.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; A simple way to back up your mail and news settings for Outlook Express.
27) 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.
28) Point At URL BEFORE You Click: Date - May 19, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; Many spam offers and phishing scams trick users into going to a web site that has nothing to do with what the URL appears to link to. Before you click, take a look at the true URL behind the link.
29) Manage Shadow Copies on Client Machines: Date - May 12, 2005; Rating - 2.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Utilities; Did you know you can manage shadow copies on the client side from the command line?
30) Remove Patch Uninstall Folders To Clean Hard Drive: Date - May 04, 2005; Rating - 3.4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Hard drives are cheap and people typically have more space than they know what to do with these days. But, that is no reason to just waste it. When you install Windows patches, hidden folders are created which contain the uninstall data. Viewing the hidden data on my computer, I found 50 or so patch uninstall folders taking up over 500 Mb of space on my drive.