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When you first install and run Windows Vista, it will calculate your Windows Experience Index score to evaluate your computer’s speed and graphics capabilities. Microsoft defines the Windows Experience Index as the following: “The Windows Experience Index is a new feature built into Windows Vista that is designed to help you better understand how well…

How can I archive the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) Spam Confidence Level (SCL) rating of messages in Exchange 2003? Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter is a product developed by Microsoft to help companies reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), or spam, received by users. You can read more about IMF on the Block Spam…

Background By default, anonymous LDAP operations, except rootDSE searches and binds, are not permitted on Windows 2003 domain controllers. This means that when trying to perform unauthenticated search in Active Directory, you can query for attributes of the RootDSE object only – any other query will result in domain controller requesting authenticated bind to LDAP…

I’ve used the command shell since the days of DOS 5.0. In these days, using the command line was a necessity since Windows was in its infancy. As Windows technology improved I never gave up my command line roots since I could automate many tasks using scripts which gave me more time to do other…

How can I allow more than 2 simultaneous downloads in IE 6? To configure IE to allow up to 10 simultaneous downloads (it only allows 2 at a time) do the following: Open Registry Editor. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then…

Ever since Microsoft introduced mice into their operating systems (something done earlier by other vendors such as Apple and pioneered by the Xeros PARC – Palo Alto Research Center – mythical design team) we could drag-and-drop items from one spot of the graphical user interface (or GUI) to a different spot. I will not go…

How can I add a Root Certificate to my Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC? Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 based Pocket PCs use Root Certificates to allow access to SSL-enabled applications such as Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer, Microsoft ActiveSync (when it is configured to synchronize directly with Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server), L2TP-based VPN connections and…

How can I add a new Administrative Template to an existing (or new) GPO? In a previous article – Understanding Administrative Templates in GPO – I’ve described the purpose of the Administrative Templates section in the Windows 2000/XP/2003 GPO. Administrative Templates are a large repository of registry-based changes that can be found in any GPO…

A couple of months ago, I wrote a series of articles on Hyper Visor (more commonly known as Hyper-V), the new server virtualization component for Windows Server 2008. Since that time, I have gotten a several E-mail messages from people wondering why they can’t access their network from a virtual server. In this article, I…

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