IT Knowledgebase Articles

I will probably build a whole section out of this page later this month. For now here is a list of all the "Well Known Port Numbers" based upon RFC1700 and http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Do you want to perform searches for ports that are used by Trojans and Viruses? Try the Trojan port search engine found on…

Why doesn’t the Welcome Screen in XP appear when I turn on my computer? On a Windows XP-based computer that is part of a workgroup and has the Fast User Switching feature enabled, the computer may start without displaying the “Welcome” logon screen. The Guest account is not relevant when Windows determines if there is…

Can I rename my Windows 2000 Domain? The short answer is YES and NO. 🙂 You can rename a Windows 2000 Server AD Domain only if it’s still configured as a Mixed mode domain. Note: Windows Server 2003 AD Domains CAN be renamed (see Windows 2003 Domain Rename page for more info). MS KB 292541…

In our previous article, “VMware Versions Compared“, we compared the various products in VMware’s product line. For example, the difference between VMware Server, Workstation, and Server ESX. In this article, we will focus specifically on the VMware ESX product line and the VMware virtualization suite called VMware Infrastructure. With a variety of VMware Infrastructure suites…

The Command Prompt is a native Windows program that lets you execute commands without using a GUI. You can accomplish pretty much every task in the Command Prompt as you can with the GUI and a mouse. The Command Prompt gets its roots (arguably) from a combination of UNIX and MS-DOS. Consider it “Windows without…

With the new Aero Theme Microsoft introduced 3D look to windows, something that Mac OS X users have had for quite a while. With Aero, the user can view the 3rd dimension of a window by flipping the window by pressing the Windows Logo key + TAB. The overall appearance of the Windows Vista desktop…

Say “No” to Hoaxes As much good stuff as there is on the Internet, unfortunately there is even more bad stuff such as spam, virii, scams, porn, crackers, etc. Another one of the annoying things found in abundance online are hoaxes. What is a Hoax? A hoax is usually an e-mail you receive with a…

Microsoft Windows, 32-bit winVista = Windows Vista (experimental) longhorn = Windows Longhorn (experimental) winNetBusiness = Windows 2003 Small Business Server winNetEnterprise = Windows 2003 Enterprise Server winNetStandard = Windows 2003 Server winNetWeb = Windows 2003 Web Server Edition winXPPro = Windows XP Professional Edition winXPHome = Windows XP Home Edition win2000AdvServ = Windows 2000 Advanced…

For those of you new to the idea of virtualization, virtualization is the nesting of “sub-operating systems” within a host operating system.  More specifically, virtual operating systems, better known as virtual machines, allow the end user to leverage the power of the host PC to explore other operating systems.  With virtualization, a user can run Linux…

If you got to this article I suppose you’ve already read my “Creating Virtual Machines with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007” article (if not, it might be a good time to suggest that you did). Remember, creating a VM is just equivalent to buying a new physical computer with a CPU, memory, an empty hard disk,…