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Can I hide the Security Center icon in Windows Vista? Yes you can. The Security Center is an application that informs Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista users about their security settings, or better saying – the lack of. Windows Security Center in Windows Vista has a separate section for the Firewall, Automatic Updates, Malware…

How can I hide Public Folders in Exchange 2000/2003? If you want to create new top-level public folders but wish to limit their visibility to only specific users or groups you can do the following: Create a new top-level public folder (you can do it from Outlook, Windows Explorer or Exchange System Manager). Give the…

How can I hide a user from the Welcome Screen in Windows XP? To hide a user‘s account from the welcome screen in Windows XP: Open Registry Editor. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Create the following entry: Username: REG_DWORD (Where Username is the username of the user you want…

You can configure a computer so that it does not send announcements to browsers on the domain. If you do so, you hide the computer from the Browser list, which can help reduce network traffic. Editing the Registry Open the registry editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesLanmanServerParameters From the Edit menu, choose Add Value and type:…

Featuring Shalvik’s exclusive PatchPush, HFNetChkPro is the easiest way to manage security patches on your network, keeping your network safe. You no longer need to walk to each computer to install patches, or track security patches by hand. HFNetChkPro does this job for you, providing significant time savings in dealing with the large number of…

HFNetChk is a command-line tool that enables an administrator to check the patch status of all the machines in a network from a central location. The tool does this by referring to an XML database that’s constantly updated by Microsoft. HFNetChk can be run on Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 systems, and will scan…

Hebrew (and Arabic) messages sent from Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003 have subject lines made of question marks (????) The following article deals with an issue that Hebrew or Arabic speakers have when sending messages by using Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003. This issue causes certain machines using OWA to send email messages that have…

Harnessing the power of Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR) Understanding ANR The computer industry loves acronyms. Acronyms save time, instead of having to utter long sentences and waste time; you can speak the latest buzzword in the form of an acronym and in addition to saving time you will also sound cool… The following article deals…

What are the Windows Server 2003 Hardware/System requirements? Review the table on this page to determine the minimum and recommended system requirements needed to run Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition. Requirement Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Datacenter Edition Web Edition Minimum CPU Speed 133 MHz 133 MHz for x86-based…

Greylisting seems to be the right method to effectively lower the spam levels your mail servers get daily. Read more about it on my Combating Spam with Greylisting article. There are quite a few Greylisting implementations available for a wide variety of SMTP mail servers. So far I was only able to find one freeware…