All posts by Jim Guckin
Helpful XP Registry Hacks
Every-once in a while, someone asks me for neat little tricks or how to customize their computer. One of the things that I find fun to do, are registry hacks to make Windows XP do things that otherwise I couldn’t do. Also some of these things can be implemented as minor security measures or help you…
Q&A Wednesday: Screen Saver Group Policy
Since I for some reason thought that Monday was Wednesday, it only seems right for me to post Q&A Monday on Wednesday: Question: Hi I am currently running Windows 2003 on my servers. I have two DC’s in my environment. Clients are running Windows XP. I have 5 OUs created for the varying users in…
SysPrep for Windows Server 2008
I was going sysprep a base image of Windows Server 2008 today and followed my usual method of SysPreping a machine…when I noticed somethin. I went to the DVD and couldn’t find sysprep anywhere. figuring my last entry might have been wrong I looked around and discovered that sysprep is installed by default on Windwos Server 2008. You can find…
SysPrep Windows
Every single time it comes to me setting up a bunch of servers in a cloned environment, I always need to sit down and try to remember how this works or end up searching the web for the answers that I am looking for. So enough it enough and I wanted to take the time…
Q&A Moday: Exchange 2007 E-Mail Forwards
Question: I am new to the Exchange 2007 environment, I’ve worked with Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 and I’m running into a problem that I don’t know how to fix. I have a user who wants to forward all incoming e-mail from our email server to his personal GMail account. I loaded his Outlook profile…
Cool Site: Prey Project
In today’s world system admins can’t be too careful about where their equipment ends up, I’ve seen many Admins get panicked when a laptop goes missing, especially when the company doesn’t have a decent check-in and check-out system for their equipment. Though there isn’t any fool proof way to find a stolen laptop, I’ve recently…
Q&A Monday: Disable Programs that Start with Windows
Every once in a while, I get the following question: Question: How do I stop programs from running when I start up my computer? Answer: This is actually a very simple process. The first place would be the check the windows start up folder, by clicking on the Start Bar going to programs and then…
Q&A Moday: Lesser Known Word Shortcut Keys
Question: I use Microsoft Word, are there any short-cut keys that could help me format my documents? I’ve asked my IT guys, but they show me how to bold, italicize and etc but nothing really cool…do you know any? Answer: Crtl+Shift+D = Double Underline Ctrl+] = Increase Font Size Ctrl+] = Decrease Font Size Ctrl+Shift+A…
Outlook 2010 Beta Bug Fix
If like me, you downloaded the 2010 Office Beta, you may be interested to know there is already a path out for the Outlook 2010 portion. Now Microsoft releasing Patches is nothing new, and I think it’s funny to release a patch for the product prior to it coming out, but that’s exactly what the…
Virtualization Planning
When deciding you need to virtualize your network there are some things you need to consider prior to doing so.