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Description This command line utility enables an administrator to hide or disable the start button. Requirements: This tool requires Windows 2000/XP/2003. Current version: 1.0 Download Download [this_link_has_been_removed] (3kb) You need to extract the tool/script found in the downloaded file by using WinZip or similar. Syntax ​StartBut /enable | /disable | /hide | /show For example:…

How can I speed-up the very s..l..o..w Start menu in Windows XP? The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing it’s settings from the Registry: Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). Locate the following key in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/ On the Edit menu, click Add…

If you use the TCP/IP protocol and you have a 100mbps network adapter, you may notice slow network performance while you copy files. You may also experience this slow performance while you use Windows Explorer in Windows XP. Note that although the slow performance is known to occur on several 100mbps network adapters, this issue…

To speed up the browsing of your local LAN try this: Open the registry editor. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace Export this key (in order to back it up, just in case) and then delete the key called {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} (Task Scheduler). Close the registry. Be sure to check your ‘Binding Order’ in Network Connections > Advanced. Note:…

One of the most time consuming administrative tasks is the password reset issue. Research shows that help desk calls may consist of up to 40% of password reset related issues. When I’ve learned about a new tool that was designed to help mitigate these issues I wanted to test it out. The tool is called…

Spam Marshall is a server based total email security, anti-spam and anti virus product. Spam Marshall should seriously be considered by email server administrators concerned about his or her company’s email server security and spam emails.  Spam Marshall contains many features which sets it apart from it’s’ competition, one of which was the SMTP Intrusion…

You don’t. A mirrored volume, also known as a RAID-1 volume, is a fault-tolerant volume that duplicates data on two different physical disks. Mirrored volumes are supported on dynamic disks, and provide data redundancy by using two identical copies (mirrors) of the volume. You cannot create mirrored volumes on computers that are running Windows XP…

How can I verify that my Exchange server is accepting connections? How can I connect to my Exchange server via Telnet? Sometimes you might want to troubleshoot your Exchange server from outside your corporate LAN (or from within, it makes no difference) in order to see if it accepts incoming connections. An example for this…

Some benefits of using the S/MIME control in OWA 2003 Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Exchange Server 2003 has many fine features that make you feel like you were using the full-featured Outlook client. With that said, note that you can improve the user’s experience by opting to install the S/MIME control on your machine….

Exchange 2003 on a Domain Controller or “Why does my Exchange 2003 server take 10 minutes or more to shutdown” and other problems It seems that most users that install Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 machine that is also configured as a Domain Controller may experience a slow shutdown when they try…