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Windows Vista has some great additions. One of them is the new and re-designed Performance Monitor. You can open the Performance snap-in from the Computer Management tool (see below), or as a separate snap-in. Inside the Performance tool you will find a Monitoring Tools folder, and in it you will find the Reliability Monitor. The…

When viewing the list of components for a network interface, you may notice that the Uninstall button is disabled when Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is selected. In Windows XP, the TCP/IP stack is considered a core component of the operating system; therefore, it is not possible to uninstall TCP/IP in Windows XP. In extreme cases, reinstalling…

You may want to remove and reinstall TCP/IP to help resolve the following issues: Bindings that are improperly configured on a server. Dial-up clients that are unable to connect to a RAS server. Network adapter drivers that do not properly bind to the protocol. To remove TCP/IP from your Windows 2000-based computer: Click to clear…

How do I reinstall Internet Explorer 6.0 on my XP machine? Sometimes you may want to reinstall IE 6.0 from your XP CD. To do so follow these steps: Insert the Windows XP CD in your CD drive. Open Start / Run and type: ​ rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:windowsinfie.inf (in one long line. Just…

Description This command line utility enables you to import .REG files even if the Group Policy is set to restrict the registry editing tools. If you use this policy setting, just use regpol.zip to import .REG files instead of the traditional ‘Regedit –s’ and ‘Reg import’. Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Current version: 1.2.8 Version highlights: Minor…

MS KB 119495 article  has more info: Names registered by the WINS server can be divided into three groups: Computer Name Domain Name Other/Special Names Each WINS Client actually registers its name with the WINS Server three or four times. Note: The MS-DOS clients that ship with Windows NT version 3.5 (LAN Manager version 2.2c…

What can the REG.EXE command do in Windows XP? REG.EXE does almost everything Regedt32 can do, but it allows you to do it from a command line. This can be useful when you want to quickly make a change without opening Regedt32, and it also allows you to embed registry operations in logon scripts and…

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…

Red Earth Policy Patrol 2.5 – more info Perhaps no problem plagues the Internet as deeply as that of unsolicited junk E-mail, or SPAM. While there’s no doubt that SPAM can be annoying to the end users, SPAM can cause problems for both the network administrators and for those who own or manage a company….

Why can’t I install the Recovery Console on a system that has software RAID1 (Mirroring) on it? When your system partition (containing the Ntldr, Ntdetect.com, and Boot.ini files) is part of a Windows basic or dynamic disk software mirror, you cannot pre-install the Recovery Console. If you try to pre-install the Recovery Console with the…