‘OS’ Archives
Helpful XP Registry Hacks – Part 2
I had a couple more registry hacks that I thought might be interesting, but not as useful as the first bunch. Since it is Friday and usually I have these things thought out, I'm going to throw more registry hacks at you...and maybe you'll find them more useful than I do. Change categories in the Control Panel Windows XP’s Control Panel is [...]
Q&A Monday: Finding Enabled Active Directory Users
Question: We are looking at a couple different software packages for several processes in my company, though a lot of vendors are charging by active AD accounts. Is there a way to just find all enabled active directory accounts, without having to goto all OU's and count them. Answer: I have been there many times, and I know that sorting [...]
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 troubleshoot a problem. So below are five [...]
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 the different departments in my [...]
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 [...]
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 today to get it on here, so I know exactly where to look. In case you haven't [...]
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 finding the startup folder. This is [...]
Windows Printer Pooling
You may run into a situation where you need to pool a bunch of printers together and have the jobs printed to them spread out amongst different printers. One example is if you company prints a bunch of reports on a regular basis. Printing to just one printer (depending on the size of your reports) could take forever, yet if you spread [...]
Q&A Monday: Server Disk Defrag
Question: I was recently promoted to a Junior System Admin role at my company, and server maintenance has recently come under my job responsibility. I was wondering if it is a good idea to defragment the disk on the servers? We occasionally do defrags on the local PCs, but does defraging a server really help? Answer: Ah yes, the [...]
Q&A Monday: Change Remote Desktop Port
Question: Do you know if there is any way to change the port number of remote desktop? I am looking to make RDP more secure by changing the default port on our servers. Answer: There is a way to change the default port for all supported versions of Windows and it isn't really that complicated. By default for those of you not aware, [...]
