Microsoft has just released Windows SteadyState. It is a free program that allows you to lock down a Windows installation, and make it suitable for use in a public environment. It is actually a major upgrade (So major they renamed it) from an older tool called the Microsoft® Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP. A […]
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I was using a friend’s system and I noticed that the system properties window had a logo, and contact information for the local computer shop. I knew right away there was no way they (The local store) had purchased any special version of Vista to do this, so I looked it up. You can set […]
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HP has said that it is taking pre-orders on Monday for its MediaSmart server. This is the first manufacturer to offer the new Windows Home Server operating system. MediaSmart will be shiped later this month. It is priced at US$599 with 500GB of storage, or $749 with a terabyte of disk space. A few months […]
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I don’t know if it is a bug in IE, or if my Nephews are playing a game with me. Suddenly over the weekend I started to get prompted for the parental controls password Hmm. I do not know the password…since I never set one. If I try to turn it off or modify it […]
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I was using Outlook 2003 over the last few weeks, and I started to notice that my terrible spelling and typos were getting past me. It seems that the auto-correct feature was simply not working After thinking about it I realized that I had installed Service pack 3 for office recently…so I did a search […]
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I was browsing through the utilities at www.sysinternals.com, and I came across this neat little utility: BGInfo.exe What does it do? It writes a bunch of current system stats such as memory, CPU, IP address, hostname, etc to the desktop bitmap. This can be a huge time saver when you are working on lots of […]
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When I first started doing the groundwork for this article I incorrectly assumed that the default mail client was a setting that each user could change in Windows. What I mean is – I thought if ‘USER A’ logged in, set the default email client…then ‘USER B’ could login to their account and set their […]
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Windows File and Printer sharing is used for a wide variety of services in windows. If it is disabled, you can’t do many things remotely…such as: -Access the admin$ share -Stop and start services -Access the registry -Shutdown, Logoff, or Reboot Also, without it – our product Remote Control LAN edition cannot connect to a […]
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I got a an email from Ivan at www.cybexmag.com in response to this article.Hi Steve, Another useful Reg Key is the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Ftp\Accounts This key holds all the FTP accounts used if you accessed an FTP via Internet Explorer.I decided to check it out, and sure enough…if you backup Auto-Complete as I described in the […]
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I came across this built-in command that works under XP, 2003, and Vista. From the command line you can type:driverquery And it will immediately come back with a complete list of drivers Better yet, the program is loaded with options. If we look at the help screen for it:Parameter List: /S system Specifies the remote […]
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