Daniel Petri

Automatically recover a Windows 7 or XP administrator password with this helpful and crucial guide.

ISO files are actually images of complete CDs or DVDs compiled as one whole image file (*.iso), just like Ghost does for hard disks and partitions. ISO images can be loaded into several different CD/DVD recording software packages to create CDs or DVDs. ISO Recorder Power Toy (Freeware) Update: ISO Recorder is now compatible with…

How can I install Windows XP Pro on my computer? As a Microsoft Windows support professional, one of your tasks may be to install the operating system. This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on installing Windows XP Pro. Windows Vista Update: We’ve recently added similar instructions for how to install Windows Vista Step #1: Plan…

In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to the concept of quota template. Now that I have shown you how to create or modify a quota template, I want to wrap up the series by showing you how to actually implement a disk quota in Windows Server 2008. Implementing Disk Quotas By…

  Here’s a great tip submitted by one of our readers – Ziv Shadar. I’ve uploaded it almost word for word. Thanks Ziv! When using roaming profiles we must understand that a lot of file copying is performed when logging on to and logging off from the workstation. For example, a user can have thousands…

Why do Windows 2000-based clients connect only to the Domain Controller that was upgraded first in a Mixed-Mode Domain? After you upgrade the first of multiple Windows NT Server 4.0-based domain controllers to Windows 2000 or to Windows Server 2003, all of the domain‘s Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP-based clients connect to that domain…

Looking to retire a domain controller? Daniel Petri shows you how to remove Active Directory from a domain controller before you do.

Forgot the Administrator password – Alternate Method – The LOGON.SCR trick This is another trick that will easily work in Windows NT 4.0 and some versions of Windows 2000. The principal is that you need to install a second instance of your OS to your HD, then manipulate the default screen saver (the one that’s…

A packet sniffer is usually used to analyze network traffic. The reason for using a packet sniffer (or simply called “sniffer”) is to configure the NIC to work in a mode called “promiscuous” mode. Without going into that mode, Ethernet network interface cards normally work in a “filter” mode that ignores all traffic that doesn’t…

Freeware Notepad Replacements Notepad is one of the few tools that have always been a part of Windows, but in the process of updating and improving the OS, were left behind and have not evolved at all. When talking to people from Microsoft I got the clear impression that Microsoft views Notepad as a final…

Want to get the most out of Windows XP? Daniel Petri shows you some of his favorite tweaking tools for Microsoft’s long-lived client OS.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is an old and venerable protocol, especially useful for Internet publishing. It may seem that Microsoft has not done much work on providing a robust, secure FTP. But that’s all about to change. Microsoft has just created and released a new FTP service that has been completely rewritten for Windows Server…