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Note: In order to successfully use this trick you must first use one of the password resetting tools available on the Forgot the Administrator’s Password? page. The reason for that is that you need to have the local administrator’s password in order to perform the following tip, and if you don’t have it, then the…

Here is Daniel’s List of Recommended Web links: (Sorted in some freestyle alphabetical order) Great Microsoft-related Knowledge Bases These are the ones I’m currently using. Note that a very short description doesn’t imply that the featured site is less useful than one with a long description: Link Description Brian Madden Great resource for Citrix, Terminal…

Microsoft has made some awesome graphical additions to Windows Vista, namely, the Aero theme (read more about it on my “Enable Windows Vista Aero Graphics” and “Aero Theme is Bad, Disable It” articles).   The Aero theme is not available in all the Vista editions. You can read “Windows Vista Editions” for more info, but…

How can I spell-check text from within Internet Explorer? There are times when you need to perform spell-checking operations from within an Internet Explorer window. These may include the following: Entering feedbacks and responses in online forms Posting messages on bulletin boards, blogs and forums performing free-text searches in search engines and more. One old…

Want to add a link to your own site? As long as your site is a free, non-profit, non-pop-up-banner, IT/Microsoft related site – send me a link with a small description of the contents of your site, and if it’s as good as you say – I’ll add it to the list. If your site…

Windows Server 2008 is RTM After more than 3 years of hard work and with over 5000 people working full time on it, Windows Server 2008 was finally released to manufacturing (RTM) today and will be available for purchase to new customers on March 1, 2008. ISO images can already be downloaded from the Microsoft…

Network protocol analysis is a technique used to view, in real time, the raw data sent and received over a network interface. This is useful for troubleshooting network configuration and network application problems. It is also useful when developing new network protocols. In this article, I’ll go over the very basics of troubleshooting a network…

Description Do you need to change your organizational print server? You might find the task of updating the clients’ printers’ settings pretty tiring… This utility will update your clients’ printers to the new print server through a logon script. The utility does not affect local printers, Netware printers and network printers from a different print…

In Exchange 2000/2003, how can I configure a newsgroup expiration policy? If you’re running a newsgroup feed from a live NNTP server (see Configure Newsgroup Feed From a NNTP Server) you might want to configure an expiration policy to automatically delete items older than X days so not to overwhelm the server. To do so…