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2009-10-07T10:27:00.000-07:00

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? Articles that convey exactly what you are trying to say about a software product or development? Or are you simply a consumer who is looking for an extra bit of guidance or advice when it comes to what Computer Software does and what is the best Computer Software for you to buy for your needs?

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How can i copy the files in the debug folder to some other directory automatically ?

2009-09-26T09:45:00.002-07:00

Add the following line of code to the Post build event in the project properties,
call copy E:\projectdir\bin\Debug c:\test\

What is the name of the file you need to change to add pre- and post-build functionality into your custom package ?

2009-09-26T09:45:00.001-07:00

Targets file.
It is located in ,
%WINDOWS%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets

Tell some of the new features of ASP.NET 3.5?

2009-09-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

1. Expression Trees
2. Controls
1. ListView
2. DataPager
3. Support for LINQ, WCF , WPF and WWF

What are the options available on creating a branch?

2009-09-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

There are 5 options available on creating a branch, they are :
1. Changeset
2. Date
3. Label
4. Latest Version
5. Workspace version

How will you check whether automated build is successful and call a custom task on successful build?

2009-09-26T09:43:00.001-07:00

You can do that by providing the following config entry in the MS Build or TFS Build config file,
BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"
Condition=" '$(IsDesktopBuild)' != 'true' ">

What are the new Features in Team Build 2008 ?

2009-09-26T09:43:00.000-07:00

1. Continuous Integration
2. Build Queuing
3. Scheduled Builds
4. Build Agent Management
5. Build Definition Editing GUI
6. Better Build Management
7. Managed object model
8. Improved extensibility

What are the blocks in Enterprise Library?

2009-09-26T09:42:00.001-07:00

1. The Caching Application Block

2. The Cryptography Application Block

3. The Data Access Application Block

4. The Exception Handling Application Block

5. The Logging Application Block

6. The Policy Injection Application Block

7. The Security Application Block

8. The Unity Application Block

9. The Validation Application Block

What are the Predefined bindings in WCF?

2009-09-26T09:42:00.000-07:00

1. BasicHttpBinding
2. WSHttpBinding
3. WSDualHttpBinding
4. NetTcpBinding
5. NetNamedPipeBinding
6. NetMsmqBinding

What is the expansion of TDD?

2009-09-26T09:41:00.001-07:00

Test-Driven-Development .

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What will the deployment retail="true" do when set in a asp.net web.config file?

2009-09-26T09:41:00.000-07:00

It forces the 'debug' attribute in the web.config to false, disables page output tracing, and forces the custom error page to be shown to remote users rather than the actual exception.

What is the Svcutil.exe ?

2009-09-26T09:40:00.001-07:00

Service Model Metadata Utility Tool is used to generate the proxy from the client.

Explain what is a DTO?

2009-09-26T09:40:00.000-07:00

A DTO is a pattern used to transfer data between applications.

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What are the uses of Views?

2009-09-26T09:39:00.001-07:00

1. Views are virtual tables (they dont store data physically) which gives a result
of data by joining tables. So you are not storing redundant data.

2. Views are used to produce reports from data

3. Views can be used to provide security to data by giving access only to views.

What’s the difference between authentication and authorization?

2009-09-26T09:39:00.000-07:00

what is Authentication?

Is a process by which the system decides whether the user is valid to login to the site as a whole.

what is Authorization?

Is a process by which the system decides which are the areas and functionalities the user is allowed to access, at the component level.

What is Serialization ? What are the Types of Serialization and their differences?

2009-09-26T09:38:00.002-07:00

Serialization:
It is the process of converting an object to a form suitable for either making it persistent or tranportable.
Deserialization is the reverse of this and it converts the object from the serialized state to its original state.

Types:
1. Binary
2. XML

Differences:

Sno

Binary

XML

It preserves type fidelity , which is useful for preserving

the state of the object between transportation and invocation.

It doesnt preserves type fidelity and hence state cant be

maintained.

As it is the open standard its widely used

Not that much compared to
Binary.

What is assemblyInfo.cs file? Where can I find it? What is it for?

2009-09-26T09:38:00.001-07:00

What
It consists of all build options for the project,including verison,company name,etc.
Where
It is located in the Properties folder.
Use
It is used to manage the build settings.

What is the name of the class used to read and get details of the files uploaded to asp.net?

2009-09-26T09:38:00.000-07:00

System.Web.HttpPostedFile

What is web.config.? How many web.config files can be allowed to use in an application?

2009-09-26T09:37:00.001-07:00

1.

The Web.Config file is the configuration file for
asp.net web application or a web site. prefix="o" ?>

2.

You can have as many Web.Config files as you want
, but there can be only one web.config file in a single folder.

What are asynchronous callbacks in .net?

2009-09-26T09:37:00.000-07:00

It means that a call is made from a Main Program to a .net Class’s method and the program continues execution. When the callback is made ( means the method has finished its work and returns value) , the Main program handles it.

How to download webpage using asp.net and c# ?

2009-09-26T09:36:00.003-07:00

See the following code,

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

namespace DownloadingFile
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
WebRequest reqFile = WebRequest.Create("http://www.codecollege.net/2009/07/cloud-computing.html");

WebResponse resFile = reqFile.GetResponse();

Stream smFile = resFile.GetResponseStream();
// Output the downloaded stream to the console
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(smFile);
string line;
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
Console.WriteLine(line);
Console.Read();
}
}
}

How to download webpage using asp.net and c# ?

2009-09-26T09:36:00.002-07:00

How to read and write from a text file using c#.net ?

2009-09-26T09:36:00.001-07:00

See the following sample,

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

namespace ReadWriteFromTxt
{
class Program
{
static void readFile()
{
FileStream fsEmp = new FileStream("c:\\Emp.html", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader srEmp = new StreamReader(fsEmp);
string s;
while ((s = srEmp.ReadLine()) != null)
{
Console.WriteLine(s);
Console.Read();
}
srEmp.Close();
fsEmp.Close();
}

static void writeFile()
{
FileStream fsEmp = new FileStream("c:\\Emp.html", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Write );
StreamWriter swEmp = new StreamWriter(fsEmp );

string s="Have you seen god? Is there anything else to see";
swEmp.WriteLine(s);
swEmp.Close();
fsEmp.Close();

}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
writeFile();
readFile();
}
}
}

what are the Differences between Abstract Class and Interface ?

2009-09-26T09:36:00.000-07:00

Sno	Abstract Class	Interface
1	Can have implemented Methods	Cant
2	A class can inherit only one abstract class	A Class can implement any number of Interfaces.
3	We go for Abstract classes on such situations where we need to give common functionality for group of related classes	We go for Interface on such situations where we need to give common functionality for group of un-related classes
4	If you add a new method, then you can provide a default implementation and so no need to make any change to existing work.	If you add a new method, then you need to change all the existing work.
5	Static and Instance constants are possible.	Only Static constants are possible.

How can you tell the application to look for assemblies at the locations other than its installed location?

2009-09-26T09:35:00.001-07:00

You can do that by adding the following entry in the web.config file,

How to read and write from a text file using c#.net ?

2009-09-26T09:35:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Office 2010 (Portable)

2009-06-21T09:59:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 14 - the working title of the next version of Microsoft Office for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft started work on Office 2010 in 2006, which ended the work on the Microsoft Office 12 (which went under the name of Microsoft Office 2007).
Includes:
Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010

Initially it was thought that Office 2010 will be released for sale in the first half of 2009, but the new data it is not expected before late 2009 and early 2010. It is anticipated that Office 2010 will be presented at about the same time with the new operating system Microsoft Windows 7. According to an article in InfoWorld in April 2006, Office 2010 will be a «role», than previous versions. The article quoted Simon Vittsa (eng. Simon Witts), vice-president of Microsoft's Enterprise and Partner Group, which said that the package will focus on some of the staff - researchers, developers, managers, HR. Office 2010 borrows some ideas from the ideology of «Web 2.0», and, perhaps, Microsoft SharePoint Server to build capabilities in new version of office suite.

Office 2010 implements the ISO version is compatible with Office Open XML, which has been standardized as ISO 29500 in March 2008. Microsoft also plans to provide Web-version of its Office products, known as Office Web, debuted along with Office 2010. Office Web will include online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It was expected that the new version will be distributed free of charge, but revenues will be removed from advertising. In addition, Office 2010 will be offered in two versions - to 32-bit and 64-bit processors. Microsoft Office 2010 Technical preview will be released in late June - early July. Send it can be only by invitation. But you can apply now. However, Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview is already safely land in the network.

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Hiren's BootCD 9.9 With Multilingual Keyboard Patch

2009-06-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

Hiren's Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. It is a Bootable CD; thus, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through UI's differences and options in what they can do.

Hiren's BootCD - All in one Dos Bootable CD which has all these utilities:: Partition Tools, Disk Clone Tools, Antivirus Tools, Recovery Tools, Testing Tools, Hard Disk Tools etc.

Hiren's BootCD 9.9
+SuperAntispyware 4.26
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+EASEUS Partition Master 3.5
+Video Memory Stress Test 1.7.116
+MessenPass 1.24
+Mail PassView 1.51
+Asterisk Logger 1.04
+TrueCrypt 6.2
+Opera Web Browser 8.53
-Off By One Browser
-Aida16 2.14
+Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 7.0.0.290
-ClamWin Antivirus
+Registry Restore Wizard 1.0.4
HDD Regenerator 1.61
SPecial FDisk 2000.03v
Express Burn 4.26
TestDisk 6.11.3
PhotoRec 6.11.3
Recuva 1.27.419
IsMyLcdOK (Monitor Test) 1.01
Samsung The Drive Diagnostic Utility (ESTOOL) 2.12a
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 2.13
System Analyser 5.3v
Astra 5.42
HWiNFO 5.2.7
SIW 2009-05-12
CPU-Z 1.51
WirelessKeyView 1.26
CCleaner 2.20.920
CurrPorts 1.65
Autoruns 9.50
Ultimate Windows Tweaker 1.2
Xp-AntiSpy 3.97.3
Shell Extensions Manager (ShellExView) 1.37
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.37 (0906)
SpywareBlaster 4.2 (0906)
SmitFraudFix 2.419
ComboFix (0906)
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (0906)
PCI 32 Sniffer 1.4 (0906)
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Exchange Server Database Corruption Due to “Error 1067”

2009-06-20T08:52:00.002-07:00

Creating backup of Exchange Server database is a very common practice for database administrators. It helps them in restoring the database if any kind of data loss, corruption or other errors occur. But sometimes, after restoring your database from backup, you may find it difficult to access data from it.
One such scenario occurs when you try to start directory server in Exchange Server after restoring from backup. When you try to do this, you may encounter the following error message:
“Error 1067. The process terminated unexpectedly.”
Along with this error message, the following event entries might appear in the Application Even Log:
Event ID: 124
Source: ESE97
Description: MSExchangeDS ((1432 ) ) Unable to read the log header.
Error -530.
Event ID: 1196
Source: MSExchangeDS
Description: Couldn’t recover the restored Microsoft Exchange Server
database (EDB). Cannot continue. Error c8000212.
After this error message, you can not access anything from your Exchange Server database and may fall in need of Exchange Server recovery.
Reason of this issue
This problem generally occurs when Edb.log file, which is created while performing restoration from backup, interfaces with recovery process. It occurs on recovery server.
Due to this problem, the recovery process could not be completed successfully and you might face this behavior of Exchange Server. It cause complete inaccessibility of Exchange Server database.
Work around
To fix this problem, manually delete the existing data from the Dsadata folder before starting restore operation from the backup. It will delete Edb.log file.
Though, it could fix the issue, but it is not a safe method. Deleting Edb.log file might introduce severe errors in the Exchange Server database and may corrupt it.
EDB corruption is the worst scenario for a database user and it might put him/her in need of exchange server repair. Exchange Server repair can easily be carried out using Exchange Server recovery software.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery software is the best ever made Exchange Server repair software to work around all the corruption issues. Using this Exchange Server recovery software, you can perform easy, quick and absolute Exchange Server repair. Phoenix Exchange Server Repair is applicable to all the Exchange Server file versions.

Error -1216 in Exchange Server and EDB Recovery

2009-06-20T08:52:00.001-07:00

“Error -1216 (JET_errAttachedDatabaseMismatch)”
It is the most common Jet error in Microsoft Exchange Server. Error -1216 shows that the Exchange Server has determined that the files in Exchange Server database’s running set are lost or they have been reinstated with the different file versions.
Error -1216 could also be symbolized hexadecimally as ‘0xfffffb40’. When the error takes place, the Exchange Server aborts the soft recovery of EDB file before doing some changes to database, which may prevent re-integration of missing database files with data set.
When this error takes place, you should attempt to restore the missing database files. When these files are not available, you could use Eseutil for overriding the error and go on with software EDB recovery.
Error -1216 is caused when the comparison of header information in database and the log files shows that the removal or replacement of some critical files has been done. This error message may cause data loss, if the administrator run the soft recovery.

Grounds of the trouble

This problem occurs due to the inconsistency of the database, which might occur due to unexpected shut down of the Exchange Server or the Storage Group service has been stopped improperly. You may find the following entries in the Application Event Log, when the Exchange Server was stopped abnormally:
“Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE98
Event Category: Logging/Recovery
Event ID: 0
Date: 4/24/2001
Time: 6:20:18 PM
User: N/A
Computer: EXCHANGE1

Description: Information Store (4312) Database recovery failed with error -1216 because it encountered references to a database, ‘D:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\PRIV2.edb’, which is no longer present. The database was not brought to a consistent state before it was removed (or possibly moved or renamed). The database engine will not permit recovery to complete for this instance until the missing database is re-instated. If the database is truly no longer available and no longer required, please contact PSS for further instructions regarding the steps required in order to allow recovery to proceed without this database.
Nevertheless the cause of this issue, the database inconsistency will ultimately cause EDB corruption and finally the data loss. In such circumstances, you need to perform Exchange Server recovery to recover your lost data. It is feasible using good EDB repair software such as Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery.
Phoenix Exchange Server repair is extremely powerful EDB recovery product to handle EDB corruption scenarios. It can perform Exchange Server recovery for all of the EDB repair objects including emails, notes, contacts and so forth. Phoenix Exchange Server repair is applicable to all file versions of Microsoft Exchange Server including Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003.

EDB Corruption When Defragmentation Fails

2009-06-20T08:52:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Exchange Server runs a defragmentation process to rearrange the mailbox store and public folders and stored data more competently, eradicating unused storage space.
You could use Eseutil utility for defragmenting the Exchange Server database. It examines the basic structure of the database and rearrange them. It is required for better performance of the database.
Sometimes when you defragment the database, the process fails half-way though. After the process gets halted, you get a temporary file of Priv1.edb. When you rename this file, it gets disappeared. In such situations, the Mailbox store gets corrupted and you can not mount it. In this case, when you use the Eseutil /MS (to dump the space usage), the operation gets terminated with the following error message:
“Error -2211 (JET_errSLVHeaderCorrupted, SLV file header contains invalid
information)”
After getting this corruption error message, when you use Eseutil /P to repair the database, you will get the further error message stating:
“Checking database integrity. Operation terminated with error -1206 (JET_errDatabaseCorrupted, Non database file or corrupted db) after 1.912 seconds.”
This behavior results into the inaccessible Exchange Server database. You can not retrieve even a single bit of data from the database and you may fall in the grave situations of data loss.

Cause

As stated in the above error message, this problem takes place due to damaged Exchange Server database. The database corruption could be the possible result of unexpected system shutdown, virus attack, oversized EDB file and so forth.
It does not matter what the reason of data loss is. The only thing which matter is how to retrieve your precious data? The answer of this question is Exchange Server recovery.
Exchange recovery is the process of repairing the damaged database with the help of EDB recovery software and restore it. EDB recovery software are easy to use tools, which help you in all cases of EDB corruption and can recover all of the EDB objects.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most advanced Exchange Server repair software. It supports EDB repair from Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, and 2003. It systematically scans the entire database and ultimately gives you fruitful results of Exchange Server recovery.

Error While Moving Exchange Server Mailboxes

2009-06-20T08:51:00.002-07:00

MS Exchange Server is a server application which retains users’ data in the form of mailboxes, which all are stored in Mailbox Folder. Mailbox Folder is comprised of two main files: Priv1.edb and Priv1.stm. Priv1.edb is the database file which contains all the e-mail messages, message headers and attachments, whereas, Priv1.stm is a streaming file and contains all the multi-media data. Corruption of EDB creates needs of EDB Repair.

Using Move Mailbox Wizard, MS Exchange Server allows moving mailboxes within any versions of MS Exchange, MS Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003, under a condition that they should be within same Exchange organization. But, when the user tries to move mailboxes from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2000, the process may fail with the following error message:

Error: Moving messages
CN=TestUser,CN=Users,
DC=Machine,DC=Company,DC=Com:
The MAPI call failed.
MAPI or an unspecified service provider.
ID no: 80004005-0000-00000000

Viewing Application log of Exchange Server 2000 shows that the application is failing to move some of the mailboxes. The problem is associated with few of the mailboxes which contain corrupt messages, stripped or disassociated attachment. In case of corrupt messages in mailboxes, EDB gets corrupt and needs exchange server recovery. When we click the messages of mailboxes, which contain the disassociated or stripped attachments, some error messages are encountered which states that attachment can’t be opened or access is denied.

* In order to resolve this issue, we need to permanently delete the message using SHIFT+DELETE or simply deleting the message and emptying the Deleted Items folder.
* If corruption is high, we need to repair EDB as a whole using Eseutil utility or EDB Repair software. Eseutil deletes the corrupt pages from corrupt database; however, this is safe to use EDB Recovery software which apply safe, yet powerful scanning algorithms to extract lost information from corrupt database.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is a powerful EDB Repair application which is compatible with Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003. This EDB Recovery software has interactive interface and restores recovered mailboxes in PST format, usable with MS Outlook. The application can recover all the database objects.

What is the meaning of 1216 error in Exchange Server and how to recover?

2009-06-20T08:51:00.001-07:00

In Microsoft Exchange 1216 error is the most common error. This error shows that the Exchange server has determined that the files in Exchange Server database’s running set are lost or they have been reinstated with the different file versions.

Sometimes this error 1216 shows in hexadecimal like “0xfffffb40”. When the error generates, Exchange Server aborts the soft recovery of EDB file before doing changes to database.

This error may be occurring due to problem in the database or comparison of header information and the log files shows that the removal or replacement of some critical files has been done.

This error will damage your edb file and finally the loss your important data. But you don’t have to worry because you can recover your edb file through software such as Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery.

Through Exchange Recovery software, you can recover your corrupted or damaged edb files of Microsoft Exchange Server. This software is extremely powerful product to handle edb corruption scenarios. This will repair all your emails, contacts, notes, and it will also recover RTF and HTML messages. This software will restore mailboxes in PST format. Exchange Recovery is very easy to use and also user friendly. One of the best thing in this software is that its support exchange server 5.5, 2000 and 2003 and its compatible with Windows 2000, XP and 2003.

EDB Corruption and Access Problems in Exchange Server

2009-06-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

Sometimes when you retrieve your data from exchange server, the process mail fail and at the same point you are getting an error message as given below:

“Access denied to database Mailbox Store (SERVER2K3).
WARNING: “\\SERVER2K3\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (SERVER2K3)” is a corrupt file.
This file cannot verify.
Database or database element is corrupt”

In this case, its mean you lost your important data. The error message may occur due to one of the following reason:

1. You don’t have required permissions to access the database
2. Some of important Exchange Server files such as user permissions file go missing
3. Exchange Server database is corrupt and data can not be accessed from it

If you want to fix this problem, then you have only three options:

1. You have appropriate permission from the administrator and then try again.
2. You can repair your Exchange Server.
3. Repair Exchange Server database using Eseutil.exe tool

EDB corruption is one of the most critical situations and should be repaired. Eseutil.exe is an inbuilt Exchange Server utility that can verify and then repair the .edb files. But if you want to fix the errors or edb corruption then you have to go for EDB Recovery

Exchange Recovery Software recovers corrupted or damaged edb files of Microsoft Exchange Server. Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Server can recover all your emails, notes, contacts, journal, calendar entries and many other things from the corrupted edb files.

One of the best things in this software is that it supports Exchange Server5.5, 2000, and 2003. EDB recovery software is very user friendly and easy to use. Phoenix EDB Recovery software is compatible with Windows XP, 2003 and 2000.

EDB Corruption After Upgrading to Exchange Server 2000 SP3 or Later

2009-06-20T08:50:00.001-07:00

Microsoft Exchange Server is the most important application to create a collaborative messaging environment. It stores all of the critical user information in Exchange Server Public Information Store. The Exchange Server database contains a separate mailbox for every user and an exact copy of the mailbox is stored on the user hard drive in the form of OST file. In some cases, the Exchange Server database may get damaged due to virus attack or other similar reasons and you need to opt for Exchange Recovery to sort out this scenario.

Sometimes, when you attempt to mount the Exchange Server database (EDB file), you might come across any of the following events in the Application Event Log of Exchange Server:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE
Event Category: General
Event ID: 505
Description: Information Store (2028) An attempt to open the compressed file “drive:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb” for read / write access failed because it could not be converted to a normal file. The open file operation will fail with error -4005 (0xfffff05b). To prevent this error in the future you can manually decompress the file and change the compression state of the containing folder to uncompressed. Writing to this file when it is compressed is not supported.

Or

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeIS
Event Category: General
Event ID: 9519
Description: Error 0xfffff05b starting database “First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (EXCHANGE)” on the Microsoft Exchange Information Store. Failed to attach to Jet DB.

This issue generally occurs when you upgrade to Exchange Server 2000 Service Pack 3 or later and the Information Store database is compressed using NTFS (New Technology File System) file system compression. Under some situations, NTFS compression may damage the Exchange Server database like when the EDB file exceeds 4 GB size. In such cases, Exchange Repair is required to work around the issue.

Exchange Server 2000 Service Pack 3 and later do not allow NTFS compressed information store to mount. The files are managed by Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) that needs sector independence for log-based recovery that is not allowed in compression.

This entire behavior of Exchange Server corrupts the EDB file and you are required to repair and restore is using Exchange Recovery software to access your critical data. These software can recover all of the Exchange Server database objects.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most advanced Exchange Repair software that works in most of EDB corruption cases. It works well with Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003, XP and 2000

Exchange Database Doesn’t Mount After Installing SP3 or Later to Exchange 2000

2009-06-20T08:50:00.000-07:00

Exchange Server public information store database contains all the user mailboxes, apart from the information which is required in Exchange Server environment and thus is considered most important. However, Information Store also comprises one another database called Public information store database, which manages data in public folders. Exchange database corruption requires Exchange Server Software.

In some of the cases, user may fail to mount the information store database and encounter an event in the application log of Event Viewer:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE
Event Category: General
Event ID: 505
Description: Information Store (2028) An attempt to open the compressed file “drive:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb” for read / write access failed because it could not be converted to a normal file. The open file operation will fail with error -4005 (0xfffff05b). To prevent this error in the future you can manually decompress the file and change the compression state of the containing folder to uncompressed. Writing to this file when it is compressed is not supported.

Or

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeIS
Event Category: General
Event ID: 9519

Description: Error 0xfffff05b starting database “First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (EXCHANGE)” on the Microsoft Exchange Information Store. Failed to attach to Jet DB.

This problem is specifically encountered when user upgrades to Exchange Server SP3 or later. If the information store database has been compressed using NTFS file system compression.

Note: NTFS compression can corrupt Exchange database under critical situations like when the information store reaches to about 4 GB in size, in which Exchange Server Recovery is required.

Exchange Server SP3 and later versions, including Exchange Server 2003 don’t allow NTFS compressed information store to mount. These files are managed by ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) which require sector independence for log-based recovery process, which is not allowed in compressed files. Thus database corruption may result, specifically in database files, larger than 128 MB, which require Exchange Server Repair. Files, smaller than 128 MB, are automatically decompressed in Exchange Server SP3 and later.

In order to resolve the issue, we need to decompress the folders of Information store databases and logs after dismounting the database. Then, we need to carry out offline defragmentation using eseutil /d command and mount the database again. If the database comes out to be corrupt, we need to apply Exchange Server Repair or else perform the online backup of the database.

Exchange Server Recovery can be performed using Eseutil utility, but the corrupt pages will be deleted. So using commercial Exchange Server Repair software can be used which apply powerful, yet safe, scanning algorithms to repair the corrupt database.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is an excellent Exchange Sever Recovery software which is compatible with Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003. This Exchange Server Repair software has interactive interface and recover mailxes in PST format, usable with MS Outlook.

EDB Recovery after Corruption to the Database Elements

2009-06-20T08:49:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Exchange Server is an important part of a collaborative and messaging environment. Due to the importance of Exchange Server database and stored data, you should regularly back it up. But in some situations, when you attempt to backup EDB (Exchange Server Database) file, the process gets terminated halfway due to corruption to EDB file. In such cases, you need to first perform Exchange Server Recovery to sort out the issue to gain access of your mission critical data.

Sometimes when you attempt to create backup of Microsoft Exchange Server database, which is damaged and inaccessible, you might come across the below given error message:

“Database or database element is corrupt”

Furthermore, with this error message, you might also get a statement, which states that this file can not be verified. Due to corruption, the Exchange Server can not recognize the database and thus can not access it. At this point, you need to identify the cause of data loss and carry out Exchange Server Repair by sorting it out.

Root of the issue

As stated in the above error message, this situation occurs due to corruption to the EDB file. The corruption could be the possible result to virus infection, accidental system shutdown, application errors, operating system malfunction and other similar reasons.

Resolution

In order to fix this issue, you should go for Eseutil/p utility. This is an inbuilt tool in Microsoft Exchange Server that is used to repair damaged EDB file. This tool scans the damaged database and can repair in a number of cases.

Although, this utility is helpful in resolving this error message, but it also has a downside. It deletes all of the database elements that are not recognized by this tool. This behavior of Eseutil tool cause critical data loss situations and make your data permanently inaccessible. To safely retrieve your critical data, go for advanced and powerful Exchange Server Recovery software.

These software are particularly designed to safely, smoothly and thoroughly scan entire database and retrieve all of the inaccessible database objects. These software use efficient and powerful scanning algorithms to achieve perfect Exchange Server Repair. With interactive and simple graphical user interface, such applications are easy to use and do not require sound and prior technical skills.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most advanced and effective software that can handle all EDB corruption scenarios. It can repair and restore damaged EDB file of Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. This software is compatible with Windows 2003, XP and 2000.

XP as Domain Controller

2009-05-31T07:16:00.001-07:00

This is very funny XP machine as a domain controller

1) Create a share called SYSVOL on an XP machine

2) Try to unshare the directory you shared as SYSVOL.

3) You will get a nice warning stating:

"This share is required for the machine to act properly as a domain controller. Removing it will cause a loss of functionality on all clients that this domain controller serves. Are you sure you wish to stop sharing SYSVOL?"

Screenshot:

But do not worry - unsharing SYSVOL on XP will not break your AD. This is just an example of code reuse that Microsoft does.

PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Windows PowerShell!

2009-05-31T07:16:00.000-07:00

What is PowerGUI?

PowerGUI is an extensible graphical administrative console for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell. These include Windows OS (XP, 2003, Vista), Exchange 2007, Operations Manager 2007 and other new systems from Microsoft. The tool allows to use the rich capabilities of Windows PowerShell in a familiar and intuitive GUI console.

PowerShell is built-in feature under Windows Server 2008

Download PowerShell for Windows Vista, Windows 2003 and Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx

Download PowerGUI

Power Packs

Active Directory: http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=46

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM): http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=49

Virtualization: http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=290

Microsoft Exchange: http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=47

Network: http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=48

SQL: http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=54

Others: http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=21

User manuals

For PowerGUI and QAD cmdlets user manuals and FAQ please visit PowerGUI wiki.

Blogs

Latest PowerGUI and QAD cmdlets news can be found at our team members' blogs:

Dmitry's PowerBlog by Dmitry Sotnikov
Poshoholic.com by Kirk Munro

Videos and Flash Demos

Interactive Walkthrough - Take a guided tour of PowerGUI as we perform some basic tasks in both the user interface and the script editor.
Introduction to PowerGUI demo - this is the most basic and introductory demo using Exchange 2007 environment to show how PowerGUI can be used to manage mailboxes, produce reports, how the console can be extended, and finally how these extensions are shared with other community members.
How to Create a PowerPack - this demonstrates how to add nodes, links and actions to PowerGUI and how you can share your nodes, links and actions with the community as a PowerPack.
Extending PowerGUI - this is an advanced demo on how PowerGUI works and how it can be extended with simple and script nodes/links/actions and how you can use .NET, WMI, and ADSI when PowerShell is not enough.
Introduction to the Hyper-V PowerPack - Kirk Munro (the Poshoholic) provides an introduction to the Hyper-V PowerPack that he created.
Managing Operations Manager 2007 with PowerGUI - Rob "Deuce" Doucette is demoing his PowerPack for OpsManager 2007 (also known as MOM).
Advanced Exchange 2007 Management - mailbox provisioning, certificate management, public folder management - all through PowerGUI UI.
Automated Software Testing - test your software projects with PowerShell and PowerGUI.

ADRestore GUI version

2009-05-31T07:15:00.000-07:00

Accidentally deleted user, computer account or OU’s from Active Directory. Don’t worry, now you can get them back using ADRestore tool using GUI interface.

Though there is a command line version of tombstone reanimation tool called adrestore - sysinternals, many people are not CLI savvies and having a GUI version of this functionality could really help them out.

Insight on tombstone: Reanimating Active Directory Tombstone Objects - By Gil Kirkpatrick
Gil Kirkpatrick's article at Technet

Main features:

Browsing the tombstones
Domain Controller targeting
Can be used with alternative credentials (convenient if you do not logon to your desktop as Domain Admin, which you should never do anyway)
User/Computer/OU/Container reanimation
Preview of tombstone attributes

Here are some sceenshots:

Enumerating tombstones

Previewing the tombstone attributes

Restoring a deleted user account

Notice that if you delete an OU with accounts in it, you will have to restore first the OUs the accounts were in, otherwise the reanimation of the child object will fail. It is not enough to create an OU with the same name as this will be a totally new object in AD and child object's lastKnowParent attribute will still reference the deleted OU. Here is a walthrough:

Initial state:

TestOU organizational unit is deleted:

State of tombstones (notice that lastKnownParent attribute of user and computer accounts reference the deleted OU):

OU is restored (lastKnowParent points to the restored OU's distinguished name):

Both computer and user accounts that resided in TestOU are reanimated:

Download ADRestore.NET

Failover Clustering Windows 2008 Videos by John Savill

2009-05-31T07:14:00.001-07:00

One of the most useful videos I have found on the internet, for failover clustering. Thanks to John Savill for his efforts and time.

Creating Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters:
http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/clustercreate/ClusterCreate.wmv
Configuring a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster from the command line: http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/clustercmd/clustercmd.wmv
Understanding Failover Cluster Quorum:
http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/ClusterQuorum/ClusterQuorum.wmv
Hyper-V Quick Migration:
http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/QuickMigration/QuickMigration.wmv
Configuring iSCSI connections from the command line:
http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/iscsicli/iscsicli.wmv
Failover Clustering with MELIO File System:
http://www.savilltech.com/Videos/meliofs/meliofs.wmv

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

2009-05-31T07:14:00.000-07:00

Tired of parsing the Perfmon (*.blg) manually. Let PAL make your job easier, give you html output and highlight high thresholds.

Website: http://www.codeplex.com/PAL

Project Description
Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download).

Features

Thresholds files for most of the major Microsoft products such as IIS, MOSS, SQL Server, BizTalk, Exchange, and Active Directory.
An easy to use GUI interface which makes creating batch files for the PAL.vbs script.
A GUI editor for creating or editing your own threshold files.
Creates an HTML based report for ease of copy/pasting into other applications.
Analyzes performance counter logs for thresholds using thresholds that change their critieria based on the computer's role or hardware specs.

Download Link: http://www.codeplex.com/PAL/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=16807

To use PAL

The PAL tool is primarily a VBScript that requires arguments/parameters passed to it in order to properly analyze performance monitor logs. In v1.1 and later of PAL, a GUI interface has been added to help with this process.

Requirements

Operating Systems
PAL runs successfully on all of the following operating systems: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003 Server. 32-bit only due to OWC11 requirements.
Note: The optional GUI (windows form) portion of PAL requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0.

Log Parser 2.2
Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows® operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory®. PAL uses the Log Parser tool to query perform logs and to create charts and graphs for the PAL report.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Web Components 2003
Log Parser requires the Office Web Components 2003 in order to create charts.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7287252c-402e-4f72-97a5-e0fd290d4b76

Training
Watch online at: http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=JKGT3N
or
Download it (20071005IntrotoPALwmv.zip) from:
https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=PAL&ReleaseId=6759

Related Blogs and Reviews
Clint Huffman's Windows Performance Analysis Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/clint_huffman
Mike Lagase's Exchange Performance Analysis Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/mikelag/archive/2008/08/20/performance-troubleshooting-using-the-pal-tool.aspx
Two Exchange Server Tools You Should Know About
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/100132/two-exchange-server-tools-you-should-know-about.html

Few useful Debugging Commands - WinDbg

2009-05-31T07:12:00.000-07:00

All of these commands are for kernel mode. These are few useful commands, that I use on daily basis for debugging. I hope you find them useful

Vertarget:
Lists Version information for the machine/dump you're debugging. You can also use "version" to tell you about the debugger bits.

1: kd> vertarget
Windows Kernel Version 6001 (Service Pack 1) MP (4 procs) Free x64
Product: LanManNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS
Built by: 6001.18000.amd64fre.longhorn_rtm.080118-1840
Kernel base = 0xfffff800`0160c000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`017d1db0
Debug session time: Tue Apr 1 14:29:22.553 2008 (GMT-7)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:03:14.328

!sysinfo
Good utility to check the CPU revs, BIOS revs, etc

1: kd> !sysinfo machineid
Machine ID Information [From Smbios 2.31, DMIVersion 0, Size=1695]
BiosVendor = Phoenix Technologies LTD
BiosVersion = 6.00
BiosReleaseDate = 09/24/2007
SystemManufacturer = VMware, Inc.
SystemProductName = VMware Virtual Platform
SystemVersion = None
BaseBoardManufacturer = Intel Corporation
BaseBoardProduct = 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
BaseBoardVersion = None

1: kd> !sysinfo cpuinfo
[CPU Information]
~MHz = REG_DWORD 2000
Component Information = REG_BINARY 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0
Configuration Data = REG_FULL_RESOURCE_DESCRIPTOR ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,ff,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
Identifier = REG_SZ x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 8
ProcessorNameString = REG_SZ Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5335 @ 2.00GHz
Update Signature = REG_BINARY 0,0,0,0,b4,0,0,0
Update Status = REG_DWORD 2
VendorIdentifier = REG_SZ GenuineIntel
MSR8B = REG_QWORD b400000000

Getting the Server Name from the dump:
It's quite a bit easier to do internally, but this will get it done too. Good to know you're debugging the right server. :)

1: kd> dS srv!srvcomputername
e1b64db0 "Phantom"

!thread
Display current thread on the target system

1: kd> !thread
THREAD fa6046c8 Cid 1ab4.1f34 Teb: 00000000 Win32Thread: 00000000 RUNNING on processor 1
IRP List:
fa0cc490: (0006,01d8) Flags: 00000404 Mdl: 00000000
Not impersonating
Owning Process fa15f3e0 Image: cmd.exe
Wait Start TickCount 16627733 Ticks: 0
Context Switch Count 1102 LargeStack
UserTime 00:00:00.312
KernelTime 00:00:00.109
Win32 Start Address 0x00407ccc
Start Address 0x77e617f8
Stack Init f1e9d000 Current f1e9c4b8 Base f1e9d000 Limit f1e99000 Call 0
Priority 6 BasePriority 6 PriorityDecrement 0
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
f1e9c174 e105bba7 0000008e c0000005 e11294a0 nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x1b (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
f1e9c538 e10346b4 f1e9c554 00000000 f1e9c5a8 nt!KiDispatchException+0x3a2 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
f1e9c5a0 e1034668 f1e9c628 e11294a0 badb0d00 nt!CommonDispatchException+0x4a (FPO: [0,20,0])
f1e9c628 e1131ac4 fa6046c8 fa15f3e0 f9de0310 nt!Kei386EoiHelper+0x186
f1e9c628 e1131ac4 fa6046c8 fa15f3e0 f9de0310 nt!SeCreateAccessState+0x27 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
f1e9c648 e112d742 f9de0310 f9de03c8 00000180 nt!SeCreateAccessState+0x27 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
f1e9c680 e112c65d 00000000 00000000 b57f0000 nt!ObOpenObjectByName+0x8f (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
f1e9c6fc e1131d22 f1e9c7fc 00000180 f1e9c7b8 nt!IopCreateFile+0x447 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
f1e9c758 f4df068a f1e9c7fc 00000180 f1e9c7b8 nt!IoCreateFile+0xa3 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
f1e9c7a4 f4defe67 80005510 00540052 e9fa0920 savrt+0x4668a
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 savrt+0x45e67

!irp
Display information about an I/O request packet

1: kd> !irp fa0cc490
Irp is active with 10 stacks 12 is current (= 0xfa0cc68c)
No Mdl: No System Buffer: Thread fa6046c8: Irp is completed.
cmd flg cl Device File Completion-Context
[ 0, 0] 0 0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000

Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 0, 0] 0 0 00000000 00000000 00000000-00000000

Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 12, 0] 0 0 fd1a8020 00000000 00000000-00000000
\FileSystem\Ntfs
Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 12, 0] 0 0 fd101cd8 00000000 00000000-00000000
*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for SYMEVENT.SYS -
\Driver\SymEvent
Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

!poolused
Investigate what data structures are consuming the various memory pools

!poolused 2 - sorted by Non-paged pool, summary
!poolused 3 - sorted by Non-Paged pool, details*
!poolused 4 - sorted by Paged pool, summary
!poolused 5 - sorted by Paged pool, details*

!running -ti
This will dump the stacks of each thread that is running on each processor

1: kd> !running -ti

System Processors 3 (affinity mask)
Idle Processors 1

Prcb Current Next
0 ffdff120 8089d8c0 ................

ChildEBP RetAddr
f45f0c70 bf8bb568 win32k!CanForceForeground+0x42
f45f0ca4 bf8bab6a win32k!CheckAllowForeground+0x79
f45f0cb4 bf8b7f41 win32k!xxxInitProcessInfo+0x54
f45f0cdc bf8b8032 win32k!xxxUserProcessCallout+0x23
f45f0cf8 809456dd win32k!W32pProcessCallout+0x43
f45f0d54 8088948e nt!PsConvertToGuiThread+0x13d
f45f0d58 00000000 nt!KiBBTUnexpectedRange+0xc
WARNING: Process directory table base EFFC7BE0 doesn't match CR3 EFFC7020
WARNING: Process directory table base EFFC7BE0 doesn't match CR3 EFFC7020

1 f7727120 8c034bd0 ................

*** Stack trace for last set context - .thread/.cxr resets it
ChildEBP RetAddr
f45f0c70 bf8bb568 win32k!CanForceForeground+0x42
f45f0ca4 bf8bab6a win32k!CheckAllowForeground+0x79
f45f0cb4 bf8b7f41 win32k!xxxInitProcessInfo+0x54
f45f0cdc bf8b8032 win32k!xxxUserProcessCallout+0x23
f45f0cf8 809456dd win32k!W32pProcessCallout+0x43
f45f0d54 8088948e nt!PsConvertToGuiThread+0x13d
f45f0d58 00000000 nt!KiBBTUnexpectedRange+0xc

!stacks
This is a great utility to check what threads are waiting on for each process. Find out more in the debuggers chm.

1: kd> !stacks 2
Proc.Thread .Thread Ticks ThreadState Blocker
Max cache size is : 1048576 bytes (0x400 KB)
Total memory in cache : 0 bytes (0 KB)
Number of regions cached: 0
0 full reads broken into 0 partial reads
counts: 0 cached/0 uncached, 0.00% cached
bytes : 0 cached/0 uncached, 0.00% cached
** Prototype PTEs are implicitly decoded
[fffffa8000c77950 System]
4.000008 fffffa8000c774c0 ffffe94b GATEWAIT nt!KiSwapContext+0x7f
nt!KiSwapThread+0x2fa
nt!KeWaitForGate+0x22a
nt!MmZeroPageThread+0x162
nt!Phase1Initialization+0xe
nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x57
nt!KiStartSystemThread+0x16
4.000010 fffffa8000ca0720 ffffff8c Blocked nt!KiSwapContext+0x7f
nt!KiSwapThread+0x2fa
nt!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x2da
nt!PopIrpWorkerControl+0x22
nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x57
nt!KiStartSystemThread+0x16
4.000014 fffffa8000c78bb0 fffffcb0 Blocked nt!KiSwapContext+0x7f
nt!KiSwapThread+0x2fa
nt!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x2da
nt!PopIrpWorker+0x164
nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x57
nt!KiStartSystemThread+0x16

!locks
It will display a list of all kernel mode locks that are being held by threads. Each lock is displayed with the mode the lock was taken out with (shared or exclusive). The owning thread(s) will be listed with an asterisk next to the thread id. If any waiters are queued up for the lock, it will list these too.

1: kd> !locks
**** DUMP OF ALL RESOURCE OBJECTS ****
KD: Scanning for held locks....

Resource @ nt!CmpRegistryLock (0xe10ad4c0) Shared 2 owning threads
Contention Count = 87
Threads: fc783020-01<*> feee9db0-01<*>
KD: Scanning for held locks...

Resource @ 0xfeeed078 Shared 4 owning threads
Threads: fad42330-01<*> fad33020-01<*> fad33db0-01<*> fad42b40-01<*>
KD: Scanning for held locks.......................................

Resource @ 0xfc6df828 Shared 1 owning threads
Threads: fa6046c8-01<*>
KD: Scanning for held locks..

Resource @ 0xfc7e91c8 Shared 1 owning threads
Threads: fa6046c8-01<*>
KD: Scanning for held locks.

Resource @ savrt (0xf4daf040) Shared 1 owning threads
Contention Count = 1
Threads: fa6046c8-01<*>
KD: Scanning for held locks.........................

Resource @ 0xfa6c1380 Shared 1 owning threads
Contention Count = 71388
Threads: f9ed1918-01<*>
KD: Scanning for held locks..............................

Resource @ 0xfaab7840 Shared 1 owning threads
Threads: feee9db3-01<*> *** Actual Thread feee9db0
KD: Scanning for held locks....................
11756 total locks, 7 locks currently held

!qlocks
command which displays all the various spinlocks. All processors are displayed across the top and codes appear next to the corresponding spinlock if owned or not, waiting or corrupt.

1: kd> !qlocks
Key: O = Owner, 1-n = Wait order, blank = not owned/waiting, C = Corrupt

Processor Number
Lock Name 0 1 2 3

KE - Dispatcher
MM - Expansion
MM - PFN
MM - System Space
CC - Vacb
CC - Master
EX - NonPagedPool
IO - Cancel
EX - WorkQueue
IO - Vpb
IO - Database
IO - Completion
NTFS - Struct
AFD - WorkQueue
CC - Bcb
MM - NonPagedPool

!PCR
Command will show you some useful info from the processor control block. Like the current thread, next, DPQ queues (Can run !dpcs).

1: kd> !pcr
KPCR for Processor 1 at f7727000:
Major 1 Minor 1
NtTib.ExceptionList: f4ac3d44
NtTib.StackBase: 00000000
NtTib.StackLimit: 00000000
NtTib.SubSystemTib: f7727fe0
NtTib.Version: 00336d13
NtTib.UserPointer: 00000002
NtTib.SelfTib: 7ffde000

SelfPcr: f7727000
Prcb: f7727120
Irql: 0000001f
IRR: 00000000
IDR: ffffffff
InterruptMode: 00000000
IDT: f772d800
GDT: f772d400
TSS: f7727fe0

CurrentThread: 8c034bd0
NextThread: 00000000
IdleThread: f772a090

DpcQueue:

lm t n
Displaying the list of installed drivers reveals our obsolete culprit

1: kd> lm t n
start end module name
dd800000 dd9d0000 win32k win32k.sys Wed Mar 19 17:01:40 2008 (47E0F99C)
dd9d0000 dd9e7000 dxg dxg.sys Sat Feb 17 11:44:39 2007 (45D69D4F)
dd9e7000 dda3e100 ati2drad ati2drad.dll Mon Mar 22 21:53:41 2004 (405F130D)
dda3f000 dda5d000 RDPDD RDPDD.dll Sat Feb 17 19:31:19 2007 (45D70AAF)
e1000000 e127a000 nt ntkrnlmp.exe Mon Mar 05 18:32:02 2007 (45EC14CA)
e127a000 e12a6000 hal halmacpi.dll Sat Feb 17 11:18:26 2007 (45D6972A)
f1ca4000 f1cb81e0 naveng naveng.sys Fri Aug 15 09:30:26 2008 (48A4FF5A)
f1cb9000 f1d8ca20 navex15 navex15.sys Fri Aug 15 08:40:42 2008 (48A4F3B2)
f31a0000 f31cb000 RDPWD RDPWD.SYS Sat Feb 17 11:14:38 2007 (45D69646)
f38b4000 f38bf000 TDTCP TDTCP.SYS Sat Feb 17 11:14:32 2007 (45D69640)
f3904000 f3912000 HIDCLASS HIDCLASS.SYS Tue Mar 25 12:40:17 2003 (3E8000D9)
f3d14000 f3d1d000 hidusb hidusb.sys Tue Mar 25 12:40:17 2003 (3E8000D9)
f3d74000 f3d9e000 Fastfat Fastfat.SYS Sat Feb 17 11:57:55 2007 (45D6A06B)
f4046000 f40a3000 srv srv.sys Sat Feb 17 11:57:20 2007 (45D6A048)
f466b000 f4683000 clusnet clusnet.sys Sat Feb 17 11:32:57 2007 (45D69A91)
f48b3000 f48c8000 Cdfs Cdfs.SYS Sat Feb 17 11:57:08 2007 (45D6A03C)

!LMI
When I want to find out ifno about a particular driver in the dump, i use "lm n t" to get all of them, but then !lmi to drill into one.

1: kd> !lmi win32k.sys
Loaded Module Info: [win32k.sys]
Module: win32k
Base Address: bf800000
Image Name: win32k.sys
Machine Type: 332 (I386)
Time Stamp: 47e0f99c Wed Mar 19 17:01:40 2008
Size: 1d0000
CheckSum: 1cd134
Characteristics: 10e perf
Debug Data Dirs: Type Size VA Pointer
CODEVIEW 23, 1935ac, 1929ac RSDS - GUID: {09B6D936-14C4-4CA1-90CF-A00888CD89A8}
Age: 2, Pdb: win32k.pdb
CLSID 4, 1935a8, 1929a8 [Data not mapped]
Image Type: MEMORY - Image read successfully from loaded memory.
Symbol Type: PDB - Symbols loaded successfully from symbol server.
c:\symcache\win32k.pdb\09B6D93614C44CA190CFA00888CD89A82\win32k.pdb
Load Report: public symbols , not source indexed
c:\symcache\win32k.pdb\09B6D93614C44CA190CFA00888CD89A82\win32k.pdb

Installing Secondary DNS,

2009-05-27T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Domain Name System is a directory of registered computer names and IP addresses that can be instantly located. Without proper design and administration of DNS, computers wouldn't be able to locate each other on the network.

Reduced: 80% of original size [ 638 x 479 ] - Click to view full image

Right Click the "Forward Look-up Zone" then Select "New Zone"

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Click "Next"

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Select "one or more DNS are running on this network" then enter your Primary DNS ip address and Click "next"

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Select "yes, create a forward lookup zone" and Click "Next"

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Select "Secondary DNS" and click "Next"

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Type the name in zone "e.g, secondary.nanflexaltech.com" and click "Next"

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Enter your Primary DNS ip address and "Add" then Click "Next"

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Select "No, Donot create reverse lookup zone" and click "Next"

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Installing Active Directory - Secondary Domain, Secondary Domain Controller in Windows 2000 Server

2009-05-27T09:27:00.000-07:00

Active Directory (AD) is an implementation of LDAP directory services by Microsoft for use primarily in Windows environments. Its main purpose is to provide central authentication and authorization services for Windows-based computers. Active Directory also allows administrators to assign policies, deploy software, and apply critical updates to an organization. Active Directory stores information and settings in a central database. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few hundred objects, to a large installation with millions of objects.

Active Directory was previewed in 1996, released first with Windows 2000 Server edition, and revised to extend functionality and improve administration in Windows Server 2003. Additional improvements were made in both Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008.

Installing Active Directory (Secondary Domain Controller)

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click "Start menu" and choose "Run" and enter "dcpromo" and click "Ok"

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click "Next"

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Select "Secondary domain controller for an existing domain" and click "Next"

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Enter your network credential and click "Next"

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Type your Existing Domain (e.g: NANFLEXALTECH)

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small pop-up will appear and click "Yes" and click "Next"

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click "Next"

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click "Next"

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Create your "Directory services restore mode administrator password" and click "Next"

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click "Next" and you will see the picture below

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click "Finish"

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click "Restart Now"

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If everything went good, you will see the above picture when you run your "Active Directory User and Computer"

Installing Active Directory - Primary Domain, Primary Domain and Primary DNS in Windows 2000 Server

2009-05-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

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Click "Start Menu" and choose "Run" and enter "dcpromo"

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Click "Next"

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Select "Domain Controller for a new domain" and click "Next"

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Select "Create a new domain tree" and click "Next"

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Select "Create a forest of domain trees"

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Enter full DNS name for new domain (E.g. nanflexaltech.com) and click "Next"

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Dont change the Domain Netbios Name, just leave it and click "Next"

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here, you can change directory to store "active directory database and Log and click "Next"

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you can specify other folder for your sysvol folder and click "Next"

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just ignore the DNS Error and click "Ok"

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Select "yes, Install and configure DNS or this computer and click "Next"

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Select "permission compatible only with Windows 2000 server and click "Next"

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Enter "Directory services restore mode administrator password" and click "Next"

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click "Next" and you will see the picture below

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click "Finish"

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click "Restart now"

Congratulation, your Active Directory has been installed on your system, please restart your Windows 2000 Server.

Universal Document Converter 4.2

2009-05-27T05:43:00.000-07:00

Universal Document Converter is the most complete solution for the conversion of documents into PDF, JPEG, TIFF or other graphical files.

The underlying basis of the program is the technology of virtual printing. As a result, exporting documents into a chosen format is not any more complicated than printing on a desktop printer.

Universal Document Converter can assist you in preparing documents to be published on websites, protect them from unsanctioned copying and changes when sent by email, save tons of time while preparing PowerPoint presentations, and also simplify the process of sending materials to the printshop or publisher. In addition, you will be able to cut expenses on the development and implementation of a corporate document flow system.

Benefits of Universal Document Converter:

*Export into 8 formats. Documents of any type can be exported into Adobe PDF or graphical files in 7 popular formats: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PCX, DCX, GIF or BMP.

*Work with multipage documents. Several documents of various types can be united into one multipage file.

*Universality. The technology of virtual printing makes it possible to convert documents of any type, including multipage reports, technical drawings and commercial posters, into a chosen format.

*Practicality. The direct export of a document into a graphical file (instead of printing and scanning a paper copy) economizes on expendable materials and time.

*Ease of use. For exporting documents of any type into Adobe PDF or graphical files all that is required is to print them using the printer labeled ‘Universal Document Converter’.

*The advanced algorithm of quantization. Advanced algorithm for image quantization makes it possible to produce the highest quality copies even when converting them into a black and white format.

*High resolution. The ability to export documents with a resolution up to 2,400 DPI enables you to save all elements of design of advertising materials and the minutest details of drawings and electronic diagrams.

*Automatic margin cropping. The function of automatic cropping of empty margins makes it unnecessary to edit graphical copies of tables and diagrams before placing them in presentations or text documents.

*Economy of system resources. Low consumption of system resources enables you to export documents of practically any size which can contain hundreds of pages.

*Flexibility in configuration. The flexibility in configuring the program makes it possible to choose the optimal ratio between the quality of documents copies and the size of output files. For example, for publication on a website the smallest possible files are needed. On the other hand, for preparing documents to be sent to the printshop, files are required that are high resolution and compressed without quality loss.

*Quick configuration. A profile library (collection of settings with optimal conversions for standard conversion tasks) makes it possible to configure Universal Document Converter with two clicks of the mouse.

*Remote usage. Compatibility with Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix makes it possible to use Universal Document Converter from remote computers.

*Scalability. The possibility to share Universal Document Converter over a network and use it from workstations allows for a significant increase in speed for the conversion of documents.

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ReSysInfo System Information Viewer

2009-05-27T05:23:00.000-07:00

Support windows 95 / 98 / 98SE / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003.

ReSysInfo is a system information viewer for Windows. The tool has 25 total information modules: BIOS information, CMOS, desktop, DirectX, drives, environment, fonts, keyboard, locale, machine & APM, mainboard, MCI, memory, mouse, multimedia, network, OpenGL, passwords, ports, printers & fax, processes, processor, video system, general information about Windows and a summary.

The tool supports most of the latest technologies: SMBIOS/DMI, AGP, PCI, PCI64/66, VESA, EISA, MCA, PCMCIA, CardBus support, full DirectX support (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput), OpenGL support and detection, processor detection for most processors currently available on the market.

ReSysInfo has a Report Wizard which can export the information to 3 different formats: plain text, HTML and XML.

The program doesn't need to be installed, but if you want to have icons in your start menu and on your desktop there is an installer available, too.

Download Download installation program (Windows .exe, 526k)

WinAudit Freeware v2.27 - PC Audit & Inventory Software

2009-05-27T05:20:00.000-07:00

PC audit and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings...

Easy to use

No setup

Csv/html/pdf/xml

E-mail

Database export

Command line

Fully documented

Free for any use!

Suppot PE/95/98/Me/NT3.51/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Size 830KB
Download Link WinAudit

Standalone Virus Removal Tools

2009-05-27T05:13:00.000-07:00

All the well known Anti Virus companies have free stand alone Virus removal tools that a person may download and use to remove a virus from their PC.

These stand alone tools will scan for a specific virus so they should not be used in place of an installed Anti Virus product as they offer no real time protection. These tools are best used in paralell to your installed Anti Virus software to offer piece of mind that your system is clean.

They should be used in cases where your Anti Virus software has detected a virus but you are unsure if the virus has been disinfected and removed completly from your system.

The tools can be used with your current Anti Virus in active mode but personally I prefer to use these tools after booting up the PC into safe mode. Safe mode is used to diagnose various PC problems such as locking up, driver problems, BSOD errors etc.. The system will basically boot up with all but the minimum required background tasks to keep the PC running. In most cases an infected PC run in safe mode will disable the function of a Virus, Trojan or Worm thus enabling a removal tool to remove it completely.

How do I boot up in safe mode?

There are two ways that you can do this.

1. Reboot your PC and as it is booting up tap the F5, F8 or F12 key.(Varies on different PC's) This will bring up a menu screen with various options. Use the arrow keys to select the required option.

Once the PC boots up you will be presented with a warning. Select yes to proceed into safe mode.

Once you click yes you will see a log on screen showing an Administrator account and your other account/s. You will need to log on to your normal user account.

Once windows is loaded you will see your desktop and shortcuts but these will look strange as the screen resolution will be greater than what you have set in normal mode. You will notice that there is no software running or icons in the taskbar by the clock. This confirms that you are in safe mode along with the text along the top of your monitor saying safe mode. You may now run your standalone removal tool.

2. Method 2 to gain access to safe mode differs slighlty where you will not need to reboot the PC and tap the F5, F8 or F12 key. This is a simpler way to get into safe mode but requires care so that you do not change or alter any other settings within the System Configuration Utility.

To access the above go to Start>Run and type msconfig and click OK. Click the tab labled BOOT.INI.

Place a tick in the box next to safeboot, click apply then OK. You will be presented with a pop up asking you to restart your PC. This will now bypass the need to tap the F5, F8 or F12 key and take you straight into safe mode. Once you complete your scan you will need to go back to the System Configuration Utility and remove the tick from safeboot so that your PC will boot up in normal mode again. Go back to Start>Run type msconfig and OK and reboot the PC.

Once you are back in normal mode you will get a pop up informing you that you have been using the System Configuration Utility. This is nothing to worry about. Just place a tick in the box and click OK.

You can obtain the Standalone Virus Removal Tools from the links:

Free Virus Removal Tools

Security Response Removal Tools - Symantec Corp.

Free Spyware Removal and Antivirus Tools - Antivirus software and Virus Cleaner downloads

Antivirus Software and Internet Security For Your PC | McAfee

How To Use SysClean Package

Remove viruses from your PC. Panda Security.

Easy Clean

avast! Virus Cleaner - free virus removal tool

AVG Free - Virus Removal

Free Virus Removal Tools - BitDefender

Avira AntiVir Removal Tool

Firewall settings tab grayed out. It says "For your security, some settings are controlled by group policy" How to turn group policy OFF or fix this

2009-05-27T05:08:00.000-07:00

Check for any other firewall program that might be shutting off the
Windows XP Firewall.

1. Check the Group Policy settings. (Click Start - Run - gpedit.msc).

2. Expand Administrative Templates - Network - Network Connections - Windows Firewall - Standard Profile.

3. Look at "Windows Firewall:Protect all network connections", and ensure it's set to "Not Configured".

4. Double-click this settings, check Not Configured, and then click "Apply"

5. Click "Ok".

Error message: "Virtual memory minimum is too low. Windows is increasing the size of the virtual memory paging file."

2009-05-27T05:07:00.000-07:00

The virtual memory is the space your computer uses when it runs short of RAM memory. The paging file is the place where Windows handles your virtual memory settings. If your computer wants to change it, you should go ahead and let it because XP will adjust the setting to meet the current memory needs. I do not recommend changing these settings manually as Windows can manage the size much more efficiently than the user can. Making your virtual memory setting larger will increase the number of addresses and will make Windows lazy.

Adding more RAM may also be of benefit as this will reduce the need for virtual memory to be used in the first place. For running Windows XP, I suggest at least 384MB. In general, adding more RAM is the most cost effective means of boosting a computer's performance.

I recommend buying quality RAM from a reputable company. Some cheap (unbranded) RAM can on occasion be defective resulting in 'unexplained' crashes or freezes. Brands to look for are Mushkin, Crucial and Kingston.

Difference between Windows XP Home and Professional Editions

2009-05-27T05:05:00.000-07:00

Windows XP Home Edition:

Experience more than you thought possible with your home computer and the Internet. Windows XP Home Edition brings dependability and simplicity to your personal computer. It includes a cleaner, more intuitive visual design, advanced digital media features that make working with digital photographs or playing digital music simple and fun, and many new Windows experiences to explore.

* Contains basic support for security among multiple users.
* Built-in support for peer-to-peer networking, but only for up to five computers.
* The backup utility is not installed by default, but is included on the CD.

Windows XP Professional Edition:

Designed for businesses of all sizes and for home users who demand the most from their computing experience, Windows XP Professional delivers the new standard in reliability and performance. It includes all the great features and new visual design of Windows XP Home Edition, plus premier security and privacy features, advanced recovery options, improved ability to connect to large networks, and much more.

* Includes extended support for security between multiple users on the same machine.
* Better support for peer-to-peer networking, plus support for joining a "Windows NT domain."
* The backup utility is installed by default.

The Professional edition includes the following components not found in the Home edition:

* Administrative Tools (in the Start Menu and Control Panel)
* Automated System Recovery (ASR)
* Boot Configuration Manager
* DriverQuery
* Group Policy Refresh Utility
* Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-on
* NTFS Encryption Utilitiy
* Offline Files and Folders
* OpenFiles
* Performance Log Manager
* Remote Desktop
* Scheduled Tasks Console
* Security Template Utility
* Taskkill
* Tasklist
* Telnet Administrator
* Provides support for multi-processor systems (2 or 4 CPUs),
Dynamic Disks, Fax.

What is diference between http and https?

2009-05-27T00:13:00.000-07:00

HTTP(Hpertext Transfer Protocol) is a protocol used in application layer for transmitting and retrieving information across internet.Http request could be sent and you get a response for that..

HTTPS(hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) works by transmitting normal http interactions through an encrypted system and the information cannot be accessed by any party other than the client and end server. Two types of encryption layer available are Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), both of which encode the data records being exchanged.

Default Port number for HTTP is 80 and for HTTPS it is 443..

Intel Dual Core & Core 2 Duo Processors - are they different?

2009-05-27T00:11:00.000-07:00

The Core 2 Duo is Intel's second generation (Hence, Core 2) processor made for desktops and laptops designed from the ground up to be fast while not consuming nearly as much power as previous CPUs, Dual core is simply a generic term referring to any processor package with two physical CPUs in one.

Dual Core is better because it has 2 processors. The more the better. (Dell has a Quad Core, 4, processor computer and Mac has a Dual Quad Core processor, yes 8 processors). The main difference is that core duo is 32-bit processor, where as Core 2 Duo is 64-it processor, also for Core 2 Duo, the cache memory is 4MB compared to 2MB of Core Duo.

What is the difference between DDR1 and DDR2 ram?

2009-05-27T00:07:00.000-07:00

DDR2 will not fit in DDR1 notch in the first place (DDR2 will physically not insert into the socket of DDR1).

The difference between DDr1 and DDR2 is, On the physical side, DDR has a 184-pin interface and DDR2 has 240-pin and they also differ in the voltage they use, DDR1 uses 2.5 Volts DDR2 uses 1.8 Volts. As you have mentioned speed also differs DDR1 has 200 MHz, 266 MHz, 333 MHz, 400 MHz and DDR2 has 400 MHz, 533 MHz, 667 MHz, 800 MHz.

Difference between 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Vista OS

2009-05-26T23:58:00.000-07:00

- Less numbers of softwares (including drivers) are available for 64-bit Vista. Also, other 64-bit systems runs 32-bit application very well, but thats not the case with 64-bit Vista. It does not support 32-bit drivers at all. And, unlike 32-bit Vista where it just gives a warning for unsigned drivers, 64-bit Vista does not load unsigned drivers. Also, 16-bit application are not supported by 64-bit Vista.

- Vista 64-bit include a new secret security feature called Address Space Layout Randmonizer (ASLR) that helps eliminate remote system attacks for the first time on the Windows platform and is not available for 32-bit Vista.

- Vista 64-bit provide support for hardware-backed Data Execution Protection (DEP), which helps to prevent the buffer overflows that are commonly used in electronic attacks, whereas 32-bit Vista utilize a less effective, software-based version of DEP.

- 64-bit Vista has a feature called Kernel Patch Protection (also known as PatchGuard) which prevents malicious software from patching Vista Kernel. It prevents kernel-mode drivers from extending or replacing other kernel services and prevents third-party software from patching any part of the kernel.

- 32-bit Vista support up to 4 GB of RAM where as different 64-bit version of Vista support different size RAM as
Vista Home Basic - 8 GB of RAM
Vista Home Premium - 16 GB
Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate - 128 GB

- You can upgrade from XP 64-bit to Vista 64-bit, but not from Vista 32-bit to Vista 64-bit.

Cisco Network Magic Pro 5.0.8282

2009-05-26T23:43:00.000-07:00

The Network Magic 5.0 suit provide the various functionality and provide capability to

* Connect and share content or a printer across a network
* Manage, monitor and control how computers on the network access the Internet
* Diagnose and repair connection and performance problems
* Optimize performance and reliability
* Track network history and usage through reporting capabilities
* Manage active connections and get status updates Control user
* Access and help secure the network from intruders

Features:

* Connect your devices together in minutes.
* Share Internet connections, printers and files.
* Protect your network with enhanced WPA security capabilities and
status alerts.
* Repair your network and Internet connections to stay online and
productive.
* Control access to the Internet and track online activity with remote
desktop screenshots.
* And much more!

Size: 13.3MB

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150.000 Universal Drivers 2009 (High Compress - Only 100MB)

2009-05-26T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Drivers Pack Autorun v2 - AIO

2009-05-26T15:53:00.000-07:00

Drivers Pack Autorun v2 - AIO | 593.1 MB
Universal Driver CD

The program Of driverPacks makes it possible to establish automatically driver to the majority of devices for several cries. With reinstallation Windows on the computer, always, are necessary the specific routines - driver. Sometimes, producers give disk with the drivers users or lay out them on their sites. If there is no such disk or they lost it, then this creates large problems. Interface for the driver of pack will help you!
This assembling already contains all packets of drivers and it will work immediately after running off.

Advantage DRP:

- It is not necessary to search for and to draw off the influential of the driver
- It is not necessary to search for disks from the computer
- It is placed on one CD with 700 mb in size.
- It approaches practically all computers.
- Rapidly to establish!
- It is easy to use!
- Instantly are determined which of the archives of the packets of drivers it is possible to establish to this computer.

Clever regime of installation. Are unpacked only containing information about this device files, which reduces the time of unpacking and considerably accelerates the installation of drivers.
Manual regime of installation. Is unpacked entire archive the driver - pack and it is allowed the selection: what driver to what device to establish. Can be installed from DRP or from the dispatcher of the devices.

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CBT Cisco CCDA Certification Package + eBooks

2009-05-26T15:40:00.000-07:00

There’s an old saying that goes “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions helps you learn how to plan a LAN/WAN infrastructure using analysis and modeling techniques to design a network using Cisco components.This CCDA training is cutting edge and focuses on the newest Cisco PDIOO (Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, Optimize) analysis and methodology as well as teaching Cisco Enterprise Composite Network Modeling as the next generation beyond the Cisco 3-layer Design (Access/Distribution/Core). You’ll learn modular analysis and modeling along with the newest multilayer switching technology, routing essentials, IP telephony, IP addressing with NAT and IPv6, Management and more.

Instructor Michael Shannon has broken the topics down into easy to understand segments filled with information that you can readily put to use on the job. If you are already certified as a CCNA, this training will give you a lot of background and theory on network design to make you a more knowledgeable and effective IT professional.

Exam 640-861 DESGN is the only exam required to earn the Cisco Certified Design Associate certification. A basic understanding of Cisco networking such as a CCNA certification or equivalent knowledge is recommended before viewing these videos. The training contains 16 videos providing more than 8 hours of instruction.

CD-ROM Contents: Cisco CCDA-DESGN Certification Package

- Network Design Principles (Part 1): Policies, Procedures, and the PDIOO Method
- Network Design Principles (Part 2): Recognizing Customer Needs
- Network Design Principles (Part 3): 8-Step Design Methodology
- Modular Network Solutions (Part 1): The Cisco Enterprise Network Model
- Modular Network Solutions (Part 2): Modular Network Solutions and Intelligent Services
- Basic Switching Design Methods (Part 1): Layer 1 through Layer 3 Technologies
- Basic Switching Design Methods (Part 2): Enterprise Campus Switching Design Methods
- Choosing Your Routing Protocol (Part 1): RIPv2, IGRP, and EIGRP Comparisons
- Choosing Your Routing Protocol (Part 2): OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP4 Comparisons
- Basic WAN Design (Part 1): Enterprise Edge WAN Design, Planning and Technologies
- Basic WAN Design (Part 2): WAN, VPN, and Internet Backup Solutions
- IP Address Design Techniques
- Designing Voice Networks
- Assessing Network Security
- Designing Network Management

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Trainsignal Exchange Server 2007 Training - LiBiSO

2009-05-26T15:39:00.000-07:00

Trainsignal Exchange Server 2007 Training | 657 MB

Exchange Server 2007 has made a significant impact on the messaging world. With newly redesigned architecture, a more robust email application, tighter security, and more options for users AND administrators... Exchange 2007's overhauled environment presents many new challenges.

So many in fact, Train Signal has responded with a new training course that breaks down the complexities of Exchange Server 2007 in plain language. You know you MUST learn Exchange Server 2007... why not choose the same proven training program being praised by IT professionals worldwide?

Featuring over 21 hours of original, premium training, you'll dive deep into the topics most professional Exchange and system admins are buzzing about:

- Understand the larger architecture changes, including how 64-bit servers change the playing field and shift resource needs for Exchange 2007.
- Learn how to deal with certificates in Exchange 2007
- Discover how to troubleshoot failures with Client Access technologies like Outlook Anywhere and Exchange ActiveSync
- Lock down your network security with Edge Transport Server
- Crash course in PowerShell for non-scripters
- Tackle initial setup issues regarding inbound and outbound mailflow
- The ONLY Exchange Server 2007 course on the market covering integration with Sharepoint document libraries!
- Learn about (and avoid!) the common misconfigurations and costly mistakes made by most admins (beginning AND pro)...
- And much more.... see full course outline...

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How to Install Windows Server 2008 Step by Step

2009-05-26T15:36:00.000-07:00

Installing Windows Server 2008 is pretty straightforward and is very much like installing Windows Vista, but I thought I'd list the necessary steps here for additional information. For those of you who have never installed Vista before, the entire installation process is different than it used to be in previous Microsoft operating systems, and notably much easier to perform.
Note: Windows Server 2008 can also be installed as a Server Core installation, which is a cut-down version of Windows without the Windows Explorer GUI. Because you don’t have the Windows Explorer to provide the GUI interface that you are used to, you configure everything through the command line interface or remotely using a Microsoft Management Console (MMC). The Server Core can be used for dedicated machines with basic roles such as Domain controller/Active Directory Domain Services, DNS Server, DHCP Server, file server, print server, Windows Media Server, IIS 7 web server and Windows Server Virtualization virtual server.

Follow this procedure to install Windows Server 2008:

1. Insert the appropriate Windows Server 2008 installation media
into your DVD drive. If you don't have an installation DVD for Windows Server
2008, you can download one for free from Microsoft's Windows 2008 Server Trial
website.

2. Reboot the computer.

3. When prompted for an installation language and other regional options, make
your selection and press Next.

4. Next, press Install Now to begin the installation process.

5. Product activation is now also identical with that found in
Windows Vista. Enter your Product ID in the next window, and if you want to
automatically activate Windows the moment the installation finishes, click
Next.

If you do not have the Product ID available right now, you can leave
the box empty, and click Next. You will need to provide the Product ID later, after
the server installation is over. Press No.

6. Because you did not provide the correct ID, the installation
process cannot determine what kind of Windows Server 2008 license you own,
and therefore you will be prompted to select your correct version in the next
screen, assuming you are telling the truth and will provide the correct ID to prove
your selection later on.

7. If you did provide the right Product ID, select the Full version of
the right Windows version you're prompted, and click Next.

8. Read and accept the license terms by clicking to select the
checkbox and pressing Next.

9. In the "Which type of installation do you want?" window, click the
only available option – Custom (Advanced).

10. In the "Where do you want to install Windows?", if you're
installing the server on a regular IDE hard disk, click to select the first disk,
usually Disk 0, and click Next.

If you're installing on a hard disk that's
connected to a SCSI controller, click Load Driver and insert the media provided by
the controller's manufacturer.
If you're installing in a Virtual Machine environment, make sure you read the
"Installing the Virtual SCSI Controller Driver for Virtual Server 2005 on Windows
Server 2008"
If you must, you can also click Drive Options and manually create a partition on
the destination hard disk.

11. The installation now begins, and you can go and have lunch.
Copying the setup files from the DVD to the hard drive only takes about one
minute. However, extracting and uncompressing the files takes a good deal
longer. After 20 minutes, the operating system is installed. The exact time it takes
to install server core depends upon your hardware specifications. Faster disks will
perform much faster installs… Windows Server 2008 takes up approximately 10
GB of hard drive space.

The installation process will reboot your
computer, so, if in step #10 you inserted a floppy disk (either real or virtual),
make sure you remove it before going to lunch, as you'll find the server hanged
without the ability to boot (you can bypass this by configuring the server to boot
from a CD/DVD and then from the hard disk in the booting order on the server's
BIOS)

12. Then the server reboots you'll be prompted with the new
Windows Server 2008 type of login screen. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to log
in.

13. Click on Other User.

14. The default Administrator is blank, so just type Administrator
and press Enter.

15. You will be prompted to change the user's password. You have
no choice but to press Ok.

16. In the password changing dialog box, leave the default
password blank (duh, read step #15…), and enter a new, complex, at-least-
7-characters-long new password twice. A password like "topsecret" is not valid
(it's not complex), but one like "T0pSecreT!" sure is. Make sure you remember
it.

17. Someone thought it would be cool to nag you once more, so
now you'll be prompted to accept the fact that the password had been changed.
Press Ok.

18. Finally, the desktop appears and that's it, you're logged on and
can begin working. You will be greeted by an assistant for the initial server
configuration, and after performing some initial configuration tasks, you will be
able to start working.

For Official Microsoft information on Windows Server 2008, see the:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx

Useful tips to start a small home based screen printing business

2009-05-26T15:20:00.000-07:00

It is always grand to initiate a little sized dwelling based industry and if you have sufficient space in and around your residence, beginning a screen printing trade could be a better idea. You should primarily see all the portions of business, before you jump into the home based screen printing industry. Before starting the business, everyone must know the basic information. Screen printing could be done on flat surface regardless the material and it is broadly employed for the publicity as well as promotion principle. Many companies offer promotional gifts during their marketing plans screen printed with their logo, brands, products or slogan of the company to generate attentiveness amongst their established or potential customers. A fine computerized shade printing machine should be found out primarily, which has a erratic velocity. Primarily, a portable mechanism that runs on electrical supply would be sufficient to commence a residence based screen printing industry. You can do screen printing on articles as well as material.

Articled based screen printing is a manual process where the screen has to be designed using manual means in addition to printing up to two colors could be done also manually. Because, various screens are to be arranged correspondingly, the vivid printing would definitely cost you a opulence. Each screen would be printed with its own fitting paint as well as then you get the final perceptibility of the printing. Fonts also get through the same management along with then the printed articles go for the ventilation.The process alterations while reassigning the design precisely on the fabric. This procedure is also distinguished as screen printing as well as it is based on extremely unconventional technology. In order to transmit the printed designs on the textile, numerous transport papers are exercised. Shadowy or neutral dyed transmit papers are optimum. nebulization involves many other accomplices for the screen printing like inkjet papers, inkjet iron, inkjet photo papers, PC crafting kits, heat presses as well as many more to add on.

The pastel or shady transmit paper are used to print the opted for picture through a computer. After you have printed a appropriate design on the transport paper, it is then to be pressured with scorching iron till it bonds appositely on the material. You have to leave it to chill for a while, and then you can slowly shed of the transfer paper from the material. This is the method you can craft and transport striking design with the help of laptop along with create astonishing t shirts or sportswear as well as many other useful items.

Work from Home Employment needs the Meticulous Approach

2009-05-26T15:19:00.000-07:00

Although a lot of people are in work from home employment , it’s usually people who are confined to the home, that need it the most. And for obvious reasons, as most of these individuals cannot find work in the traditional manner, and are often forced to seek employment by working from home.

However, if your employment is from home, it’s not necessary any ‘lesser’ than more traditional type of jobs. Data entry and assembling products from home are but just a few of the many options to make money.

Work from home employment required a particular mindset, if you want to reach your financial goals from your efforts. For the unwary with dollar signs in their eyes, remember to make money, you have to earn it. Bear this in mind. Nothing in life is free. Don’t expect too much, if you are not prepared to put in the effort, as you usually only reap from what you have sown. What happens is some folks make a half attempt, and when the big bucks don’t start to roll in, they give up, never really having made any real effort.

Although work from home employment can be rewarding, it can have some disadvantages also. In the real world, jobs have to be performed to a certain level of productivity and efficiency, and timekeeping is always important. But for those whose employment is of the work from home sort, sometimes these everyday work practices are not followed. Stopping and starting work when you want. Or not even working at all if you so desire, are all options when you are working from your home. There is no supervisor watching you and marking your progress.

How much you succeed, or not succeed, as the case might be, in working in home employment will very much depend on the sort of individual you are, and what your mindset is. Only two things are need to be successful in any venture, including work from home employment. Drive and Ambition. Nothing more. Nothing less. Money, contacts or even experience are not nearly as important as motivation, and the desire to succeed.

It’s certainly the case, money is a big motivator initially, but don’t let your initial motivation drop off if things are not working out as you planned. It takes time and effort to succeed, even in something as simple as work from home employment. Work out your plan of how you are going to get where you want, moneywise, and then keep to it. Have belief in your own capabilities and brush aside the first hurdle, instead of succumbing to despair. It’s only by being positive and determined that you will get where you wish in the quickest way

For more relevant information on work from home employment opportunities or for genuine companies hiring at home workers, follow the links

Web Based Video Conference Services Provide These 6 Benefits

2009-05-26T15:18:00.000-07:00

An increasing number of businesses are moving towards online video conferencing versus traditional business meetings. Online video conferences are a valuable tool to make meetings more efficient and productive. Below are 6 reasons to convert your company to making use of web based video conferencing.

1) Web based video conference solutions have the ability to save your business a great deal of money on travel expenses. Vital meetings with customers located far away can be very pricey, especially if multiple members of your business must attend. Meeting online costs next to nothing when compared to the high costs of business travel.

2) Internet based video conference services reduces the cost of long distance phone calls. Many online video conference services use the Internet to make phone calls, instead of traditional, costly long distance calls.

3) Customers respond more favorably to Internet based videoconference. Because you can see your clients via video, you can see how they react to the conversation in a way not possible in regular phone calls. Many clients feel more comfortable when seeing whom they are doing business with.

4) Presentations are easily shared when using online video conference services. Many web based video conference services give you the ability to share your computer desktop and other tools to share and interact with the members of the session. With this ability you get less confusion and more continuity of ideas than normal phone call business meetings.

5) Web based video conferencing is also effective when conducting team meetings. Whether the team members work from home or at various locals worldwide, web based video conferencing brings them into one virtual office where they can talk face to face. The online video conferencing makes for a more effective and fruitful team meeting.

6) Internet based video conference solutions are a excellent way for your business to go green. By reducing business travel your company is producing a smaller carbon footprint. Online video conference services fit in well with many businesses desiring to have a more green presence.

Web based video conferencing could be the tool that helps take your company to the next level by providing a more efficient way to meet. Online video conferencing can also help decrease costs and let a company have a more successful business plan.

A glossary of SEO terms

2009-05-26T15:11:00.000-07:00

search engine optimization

Within any professional industry there are some in house terms and phrases used that need definition and clarity to the uninformed. Search engine optimization is no different. I’ve written some post in the past that mention some of these, without elaborating on them - this post will hopefully serve as a reference post as time goes on, educating you guys who aren’t familiar with the terminology. It’s very easy to include some of these phrases within my writing, without realising that some people may not have a clue what I’m on about - so for completeness, here’s my SEO glossary.

Blackhats / Whitehats

Blackhat generally refers to a search engine optimiser who doesn’t play by the rules, and is constantly pushing the boundaries of what the major search engines will allow. If it is well known that for example links are important to rank well, a blackhat will perhaps spam or create automated programs to put links around the web. I think the term initially came from some connection with wizardry - search engine optimisers being the wizards of the web? Black being evil, white representing pure or good. Whitehats on the other hand are search engine optimisation professionals that plays by the rules and follows things like Google’s guidelines. A whitehat will err on the side of caution, and takes care not to trip any Google penalties, a Blackhat on the other hand is normally involved with naughty tactics on throw away domains, and uses this knowledge to bolster his Whitehat efforts.

Sitewide
A sitewide link is one which is available through your site, for example in the footer or on a menu which exists on every page within your website. A sitewide link will commonly not pass as much link juice as other links.
Nofollow

A link which carries the rel=”nofollow” attribute - this was a measure used to combat spam, and is implemented within common platforms such as Wordpress to avoid comment spam. A link with the rel=”nofollow” attribute, doesn’t carry any weight, and doesn’t count towards your overall pagerank.

Dofollow

A standard link which hasn’t been No followed. This type of link will pass page rank to another website or page on a website.
Link juice
Commonly used with the term Pagerank - Link juice can be defined as the amount of influence or Page rank being passed between webpages.

Pagerank
PageRank is Google’s algorithmic way of deciding a page’s importance. It is determined by the number of inbound links pointing at the page and used (as one of the many factors) in determining the results in the SERPS.

On Page techniques
Google uses both on page and off page techniques to determine the results in the SERPs - on page techniques refer to changes made to the web page code which help align the physical page code with relevance for a particular search phrase or term.

Off Page techniques
Off page techniques are used to enhance the relevance of a webpage by gaining links. Off page links may include traditional link building or link baiting

Traditional link building
Traditional link building refers to the practise of obtaining links from third party websites. This will commonly be performed by a human, asking for link exchanges from other webmasters, submitting websites to relevant directories or commenting on blogs which are dofollow.

Link Exchanges
Link exchanges or link swaps are used between two webmasters to share traffic and link juice between two websites. They are frowned upon generally as the two links cancel each other out, and look spammy. If in doubt don’t exchange links - you may end up getting into a bad neighborhoods.

Search phrase
A search phrase is the keywords someone uses to find your website in Google. Some search phrases are in more competitive niche’s than others, and are harder to rank for.

Link graph
When used in context a link graph represents the network of links that connect sites together. It is the overall picture of how a site is linked to and from.

Link bait
Link bait is content written solely for the purpose of gaining additional new links and a high influx of new traffic - simply from the content nature. I’ve written a post on link bait over here for further reading.

List bait
List bait is the same as link bait but takes the format of a list. e.g. 10 amazing widgets or 25 top tips for x y or z.

Competitive Niche
A hard to enter market online which caters for a particular niche, but is tough to rank for. For example pharaceuticals or mortgages. As the price paid per click is high for Adsense adverts,many people chase terms such as mortgages.

Keyword Research
Keyword research is the practise of working out how much potential traffic a keyword gets. See more over here. It may also cover Adsense keyword research (to figure out how much Adsense income a potential keyword may bring a website owner).

Keyword Density
Used within on page techniques keyword density refers to the distribution of a keyword within a web page. Each search engine favours its own keyword density. To figure out the keyword density get the word count of your webpage (WC), count the occurance of a particular keyword (OCC) in it, and divide into it. Want to know what the major search engines favour ? Have a peak at some of this keyword research.
(OCC / WC) * 100 = Keyword Density for a phrase

Internal Links
Internal links are any links which link (internally) to other pages on that website. A good internal linking structure is imperative for good SEO results. Linking back and forth with good link text can help Google determine what your website is about, and thus increase the likelyhood of you being found for particular terms. Internal links also help to improve the overall number of page views your website receives, as the pages are well linked together.

Outbound Links
Simply put - outbound links are links which link to other websites, and are sometimes known as external links.

Trust Rank
Trust Rank is a link analysis technique that many SEO’s believe is present somewhere within Google’s ranking algorithm, that uses the research conducted (PDF link) at Yahoo and Stanford University for identifying spam.

Link Text or Anchor Text
Link Text or Anchor Text are the words which are underlined when a link is created. For example Web Design Ireland - this will aid Google in identifying what a site is about. SEO’s commonly use the link text of a link to increase relevance for keywords or phrases.

Spider
A spider in the context of SEO, is an automated program which is used to collect and or mine data. In order for Google to find out about your website, it has to spider (or crawl) the web, clicking on link after link to find your website. The more links to your site, and the more frequently you update your content the more frequently you will get crawled. The information Google picks up from your webpage content is correlated in Google’s databases, and after your ranking has been decided, shown in the SERP’s. A search engine spider is also sometimes known as a robot.

Robots.txt
A robots.txt file contains instructions for spiders or robots on which pages they are allowed to index. If you wish to disallow access to certain parts of your website and not get listed for that page in Google, you need to have a robots.txt file in place. This is a good resource on the usage of a robots.txt file.

Backlink
A backlink is a link obtained from a third party website to a page on your website. The more of these that exist the more traffic you will receive. In addition, multiple backlinks has the added advantage of boosting your pagerank, and increasing your relevance in Google. Backlinks are sometimes referred to as inbounds.

301 Redirect
There are a variety of status headers that SEO optimisers need to be aware of, but one of the most important is the 301 redirect. This allows search engines to determine when a page has changed from one part of a site to another, or if a site has migrated from a subdomain to a main domain - or indeed completely changed. You can check the headers a particular webpage has, but if you are migrating, ask an expert.

Bad Neighbourhood
Bad neighbourhood’s describe areas on the web that have been penalised by Google in the past, and have engaged in dubious linking practises or cloaking. Gaining an inbound or more importantly adding outbound links to bad neighbourhoods can hamper your SEO efforts at best, or at worst; get you completely banned from Google.

Cloaking
Cloaking refers to the practise of sending human visitors one copy of a page, and the site engine spiders another. It is commonly performed by detected the User Agent of a browser or spider, and sending alternative content to Google. The perceived advantage to this is that keyword densities, link structures and other search engine ranking factors can be manipulated further without worrying about the readability of a page, or the navigation for humans. It is generally a serious faux pas to engage in cloaking of any kind, and it is well known to be a Blackhat technique.

Deep Linking
Deep linking refers to obtaining inbound links to content which is buried (deep) inside your site. Generally the majority of links to your website will hit the homepage. It is better to achieve links to content off the home page, which will improve the pagerank distribution across multiple pages. These are known as deep links.

Black Hole
A black hole site is created when a large tier 1 authoritarian site stops providing outbound links - or if it does provide outbound links they are made no follow. If another source is needed, another page is provided on the site for the citation, and as a result all inbound link juice is retained within the blackhole. A great example of this would be Wikipedia, which tends to dominate the SERPs for some keywords. A few newspaper sites have started to create blackholes to try and retain their linkjuice.

Rank
Rank is used to describe where abouts a particular site appears within the SERPs for particular keywords. Sometimes you will hear of SEO professionals talking about outranking someone else. This simply means that they have overtaken them in the SERPs.

SERPS
SERPS stands for search engine results page. It is the first page you see after you hit search on any major search engine, and lists the results for your particular search query.

Google Sandbox
The Google Sandbox is conceptually a place that new domains sit for a while once they are launched with a algorithmic lowered page rank. No one knows if the sandbox exists or not, and many dispute its existance. Matt Cutts has stated in an interview however that “there are some things in the algorithm that may be perceived as a sandbox that doesn’t apply to all industries”.

Domain Age
Domain age refers to how long a particular domain has been registered for. It is thought to be a ranking factor inside the Google algorithm, with older domains thought to be more likely to be relevant than new ones. Again this is something that is fraught with heresay.

User Agent
The User agent is the client application identifier that is used to access a web page. For example if you access a web page using Internet Explorer the user agent will contain a string that pertains to it - e.g. MSIE 9.0 beta or if the user agent is a search engine spider is browsing a web page it will likely identify itself as a bot of some sort. For example Google identifies its search engine spider as Googlebot. This is used by web analytics software such as Google Analytics.

Bait and Switch
The practise of attracting links for a term, think once ranking has been achieved for it, switching the content on the page. May be used for a landing page for a service or product.

Backing Up The Registry

2009-05-26T11:04:00.000-07:00

Sure we like to fiddle around with the XP operating system, but sooner or later it's going to happen; the system won't boot or it becomes corrupt.The sure fire way is to do a complete system backup. Alternately you can create a Restore point using system restore. Or as shown in the above article, do a System State backup, which we'll outline below.

Microsoft has a Knowledge Base Article - 322756 which outlines the proper way to back up these settings.

Start Backup:

Start==>All Programs==>Accessories==>System Tools==>Backup

Choose "Back up files and settings"

Select "Let me choose what to back up"

Check off "System State"

Choose a place to save your backup

The file size can be quite large, so choose a source with ample space. A CD-R would be a good choice. A Zip drive would not! I save mine on a spare hard drive exclusively for backup.

Completing the Backup!

If everything looks good, click "Finish".

The Backup Process

Depending on the media you chose to save your backup, it could take a few minutes to the better part of an half hour to complete, From the example above, a 338 MB file took a little over a minute writing to a 5000 rpm 8 GB drive. A drive that I had sitting around collecting dust.

Restoring Data

When restoring, we'll go back to the very first example here and instead of choosing "Back up files and settings", we're going to select the obvious, "Restore files and settings".

There's not much we can screw up here since you'll have no choice but to overwrite existing files when restoring a System State.

I may cover that at another time since you made it this far, but there's no need to explain in detail, the reversal of the backup procedure. But I will supply these images to ponder! ;)

Just choose the backup you wish to restore, click next:

Then we're met with this warning. Click OK:

So no matter what choice you make, we're always going to restore a saved state.

After going through the motions as in backup, your system will be restored to it's previous glory!

But, and a very big but, if your system refuses to start and allow you to use the Backup feature, then we're looking at repairing your installation. And that is for another day! :)

System Restore Missing?

2009-05-26T11:03:00.001-07:00

Over the past few months I've received several e-mails asking me why their System Restore is grayed out in System Properties. Well, while everyone enjoys freeing up resources by manipulating Windows Services, people tend to forget what they disabled or set as manual, until disaster strikes and they need to restore their system.

Check Control Panel ==> Administrative Tools ===> Services and scroll down to System Restore Service. Set it back to Automatic. You can try to Start it, but there's a chance it'll fail. But all should be good once you reboot. I recommend giving up a few resources to keep this XP feature active and running. But the choice is entirely yours.

Trojan Removal From System Restore

2009-05-26T11:03:00.000-07:00

Let's start off with the simple. As time permits, I'll add additional pertinent information to this page.

I've receive at least 10 e-mails a week regarding viruses, mainly because people have problems removing them. One of the biggest problems is the virus scanner removes or heals the infected file, only to have it pop up in System Restore.

The answer is simple. Shut off System Restore. This will purge all of the files set aside for this function. So, after you've run through the removal process using your AV or worm removal tool, just proceed with the following:

REMEMBER!!!!!

Pros: If you have infected files, this will remove them.

Cons: All of your previous restore points are gone!

In order to delete the files located in System Restore's folder you'll need to disable this feature.

For Windows XP:

1. Right click the My Computer icon on the Desktop and click on Properties;
2. Click on the System Restore tab;
3. Check the box Turn off system restore for all drives.

4. Click Apply. Up pops this box:

click "Yes", and after a moment of hard drive activity, your Restore points are gone.

Now to restore the feature, just uncheck the Turn off system restore for all drives box.

Same procedure, different approach For Windows ME (taken from here)

Manually Purge the Data Store

To completely and immediately remove the infected file or files in the data store, disable and re-enable the System Restore feature.

WARNING: Using the following steps will completely remove all restore points from the data store. Do not use this method if this will cause problems. When you enable the System Restore feature again, the System Restore feature will create a new restore point and then resume monitoring your computer.

Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click System, and then click the Performance tab.
Click File System, and then click the Troubleshooting tab.
Click to select the Disable System Restore check box, click Apply, click to clear the Disable System Restore check box, click Apply, and then click OK.
Restart the computer when you are prompted to do so. When the computer restarts, the data store is purged and the System Restore feature begins monitoring the system again.

Renaming a Series of Files

2009-05-26T11:02:00.001-07:00

Here's a little used feature built into Windows XP.

Open the folder containing the target files in Windows Explorer.
Highlight the group of files you want to rename
Hit F2 or choose Rename under the File menu.
Type in the new name

The files will be named in sequence as in this example:

file (1).txt

file (2).txt

file (3).txt

...and so on.

If you want to add your own number, for example starting with 5, then place it in parenthesis, like this:

file (5).txt

...and the sequence will follow with:

file (6).txt

file (7).txt

file (8).txt

...and so on.

Windows Services Batch

2009-05-26T11:02:00.000-07:00

A quick and effective way to start and stop Windows Services is by using a batch file. There's several reasons why you would want to do this, one of them being to free up gaming resources. This is an alternate method to bringing up the Windows Task Manager, and killing Processes individually. This way, starting and stopping is only one click away.

There is an alternate method (see bottom of page)

There a just a few commands to remember;

Net Stop and Net Start.

Create a new document in notepad. Now for every Service you want to stop:

Example:

Net Stop "Automatic Updates"

Net Stop "Remote Desktop Help Session Manager"

Don't forget the quotes!

In another batch file, do just the opposite to restart them, but by using Net Start.

Net Start "Automatic Updates"

Net Start "Remote Desktop Help Session Manager"

Don't forget the quotes!

Save both of these files in a convenient location, like your Desktop for easy access.

Some Items to remember:

What you choose to start and stop is entirely up to you! Research before blindly starting and stopping services. Be smart about it!
Save each (Start/Stop) file with the extension bat. For example services_start.bat or services_stop.bat.
When saving the file in notepad, change the Save as type: to All files, otherwise you'll have to rename the file to end in bat
A quick way to get all of your Services listed is to open Control Panel==> Administrative Tools ==> Services, and in the Action pull-down, choose Export. Now how you do this is entirely up to you. I choose to export as Tab Delimited CSV and opening in Excel. From there I just copied and pasted into notepad.

I prefer to create a Hardware Profile. Easier and cleaner than this method.

Why Some Files Show Up In Colors In Windows Explorer?

2009-05-26T11:01:00.000-07:00

You can toggle this option easily by choosing -->Tools-->Folder Options, and on the View Tab, scroll down to "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in Color"

They can be toggled either on or off by checking or unchecking this box.

Windows supports this scheme for users to easily distinguish these types of files from others.

What Version of Windows Do I Have?

2009-05-26T10:59:00.000-07:00

What Version of Windows Do I Have?

An easy way to see what version of Windows XP you're running is to click Start-->Run--> Type in winver and then enter.

Alternately you can type MSINFO32 in the same fashion as above.

Yet another way is to right-click My Computer, then properties.

Remove the standby option

2009-05-25T20:36:00.000-07:00

this is registry entry for removing standby option from shut down menu

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service s\ACPI\Parameters\ :
New Dword value: Attributes Key Value: 0x70 After the key is added and
you reboot, Standby is unavailable.

Converting files online for FREE!

2009-05-25T20:35:00.000-07:00

“Have you ever wanted convert files without the need to download software?” Thats the slogan of Zamzar, a free online file conversion website. Zamzar is a free service that allows you to upload files (or URL’s) and get them converted to your desired file type. Currently they offer conversion to over 50 file types, and they are always adding more. Commonly converted file types include image, document, music, and video formats. They have a simple 3 step process that anyone can easily follow; it is listed below.

1. Select files or URL to convert. (Max file size: 100 mb)
2. Choose the format to convert to.
3. Enter your email to receive the converted files.

Finally, all you have to do is press the Convert button and wait patiently. When done, your converted file will be sent to your email!

http://www.zamzar.com/

May 5- May 11 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Windows 6/7

2009-05-25T20:29:00.000-07:00

Last week, 10 Windows 6 and Windows 7 related hot-fix KB article were released, including 4 for Windows 6 and 6 for Windows 7 RC. Below are the details:

Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008- 2 KB articles:

· 967530 When you print multiple files of different file types by using the Print button of Windows Explorer, in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, all the files print in the same format as the last selected file

· 967819 The Windows Hardware Error Architecture in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 cannot report the correct source for machine check exceptions

Windows Server 2008 - 2 KB articles:

Publish Post

· 967358 You receive error messages when you try to create a domain GPO or edit an existing domain GPO in a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory domain environment

· 963031 Error message when you open the Share and Storage Management window in Windows Server 2008: "Computer cannot be managed because it is running an operating system which is not supported by Share and Storage Management"

Windows 7 Beta - 6 KB articles:

· 967943 A software update is available that addresses common application compatibility issues in Windows 7 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2

· 970416 Description of test update 1 for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)

· 970418 Description of test update 2 for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)

· 970419 Description of test update 3 for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)

· 970420 Description of test update 4 for Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC)

· 970789 A folder that is created under the root of the system drive is missing entries in its security descriptor, which may cause some application failures on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate

May 12- May 18 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Windows 6

2009-05-25T20:28:00.001-07:00

Last week, 4 Windows 6 related hot-fix KB article were released, including 2 for both Windows Vista and Server 2008 and 2 for Windows Server 2008 only. Below are the details:

Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008- 2 KB articles:

· 969308 You have to enter user credentials again even if you select the "Remember my password" option when you connect to the TS Gateway server from a Windows Vista SP1-based or Windows Server 2008-based Remote Desktop Connection 6.1 client

· 957414 Event Viewer crashes when you open a large event log file and sort log entries by one column on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer

Windows Server 2008 - 2 KB articles:

· 958165 Stop error on a Windows Server 2008-based computer that has Server for NFS enabled when an NFS client copies data to the NFS server: "Stop 0x000000C2"

· 970718 The Hot Add Memory feature does not work on a non-virtual machine system that is running an x86-based version of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

May 11 - May 17 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Windows Legacy Products

2009-05-25T20:28:00.000-07:00

Last week, 7 Windows legacy products related hot-fix KB articles were released, including 2 for Windows XP, 6 for Windows Server 2003, 1 for Systems Management Server, 1 for Data Protection Manager and 2 for System Center. Below are the details:

Windows Server 2003 - 2 KB articles:

· 970485 Duplicate computer names are generated if you use a Windows Setup program to generate random names for a large number of computers

· 969352 A long delay occurs when the Ntfs.sys driver tries to mount a large volume on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2

System Center - 5 KB articles:

· 967843 The _PrimarySG_ security group is repopulated every hour even though the group's membership has not changed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1

· 968718 You cannot customize the ramdisk TFTP block size on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site server that has the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE) service point role

· 969113 Operating system deployment fails in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 environment if you deploy a different operating system to a client within one hour of a previous deployment

· 969341 Delta merge may fail on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1-based branch distribution points

· 969530 The Ccmexec.exe process may consume almost 100 percent of CPU resources on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 clients

May 14 - May 20 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - SQL Server

2009-05-25T20:27:00.001-07:00

SQL Server 2008 - 15 KB articles:

· 967552 SQL Server 2008 Database Auditing shows query criteria as a parameterized value instead of the actual record

· 968215 Error message when you try to bulk insert data into a table that contains a DATE type column that uses a US date format in SQL Server 2008: "Bulk load data conversion error"

· 968615 SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Import and Export Wizard does not provide the ConnectionString property for the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC

· 968741 You receive asserts after you delete a row that contains BLOB data from a SQL Server 2008 database

969357 SQL Server 2008 Report Designer renders numbers in an order opposite to what you expect when you add a special character to a Textbox control that contains both Hebrew characters and numbers

· 969453 The cascading report parameters are inconsistent in a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that contains three or more levels of cascading report parameters

· 969513 When you read an input column by using the managed code within a script component in a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package, some meaningless characters are added to the returned data

· 969653 All SQL Server 2008 database engine performance counters appear to be missing when you try to monitor the performance counters through WMI interfaces

· 969793 Error message when you click the Columns tab in OLE DB Source Editor in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services: "Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Source [1]]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR"

· 970184 You receive a "File system error" error message that mentions a temporary file when you process a cube in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

· 970287 A performance issue occurs when you run a full-text query that contains the "AND NOT" clause in SQL Server 2008

· 970461 An MDX query that contains the Aggregate function incorrectly returns a NULL value for a calculated measure in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

· 969467 Error message when you run a query that uses the CASE function in SQL Server 2008: "Conversion failed when converting the value ‘’ to data type ."

· 969611 Error message when you run a job whose owner is a Windows user account after SQL Server 2008 Agent is restarted: "The job failed. The owner () of job does not have server access"

· 970349 Queries from a query notification that has a lot of subscriptions run slowly when you change the Auto Close option to False in SQL Server 2008

May 13 - May 19 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Developer

2009-05-25T20:27:00.000-07:00

Last week, 9 Developer products related hot-fix KB articles were released, and 3 for Windows Embedded system, 1 for Visual Studio, 2 for .Net Framework, 1 for BizTalk Server, 1 is for IIS, and 1 is for Commerce Server. Below are the details:

Windows Embedded system - 3 KB articles:

· 967334 Error message when you soft-reset a Windows Embedded CE 6.0-based device that has credentials in the registry: "LoadVProviders: There are no virtual type providers present"

· 968612 You cannot play a Windows Media file on a Windows Embedded CE 6.0-based device if the video render of the device uses the YV12 format to render the media file

· 958255 Service Pack 3 for Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs and Windows Embedded for Point of Service is available

Visual Studio - 1 KB article:

· 959417 Error message when you try to repair, uninstall, or install Visual Studio Team System 2008 after you install an update that adds a new Windows Installer feature: "A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components"

.Net Framework - 2 KB articles:

· 968108 Web clients crash or you experience unexpected behavior when you access an ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX-enabled Web site that is deployed in a Web farm

· 959162 You receive error MSB4018 when you run MSBuild.exe at a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 command prompt to build a large solution

BizTalk Server - 1 KB article:

· 967606 The BizTalk Server FTP adapter does not retrieve files successfully from an IBM AIX-based FTP server that is set to the fr_FR locale

Commerce Server - 1 KB article:

· 969372 The Commerce Server 2009 SharePoint Commerce Services Configuration Wizard cannot create Web application when both the IIS Web site and the Extended IIS Web site are configured to use host headers and port 80

Internet Information Service - 1 KB article:

· 967342 The internal IP address of an IIS 7.0 server is revealed if an HTTP Request that does not have a Host header or has a NULL Host header is sent to the server

May 15 - May 21 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Messaging Server

2009-05-25T20:25:00.000-07:00

Last week, the Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 was released. Below are the details:

946449 A non-read report message is sent after you perform a "Mark All as Read" operation against unread e-mail messages in Exchange Server 2007
949113 Unexpected modified instances of a recurring meeting may appear when you use Entourage to access a calendar on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007
949114 Duplicate calendar items may appear when you use Entourage to access a calendar on an Exchange 2007 server
949464 The customized properties are removed in the recipients' calendars when you send a meeting request that includes customized properties
950115 When a CDO 1.2.1-based application generates a meeting request that includes some European characters in the message body, these characters appear as question marks in Exchange 2007
951341 Users cannot read calendar items when they connect Exchange Server 2007 by using certain IMAP4 or POP3 clients
952778 Event ID 9874 is frequently logged on Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1
953094 The value in the "Messages queued for submission" performance counter on the mailbox role of Exchange Server 2007 increases after a meeting request is delivered
954213 All Test commands that are related to the Client Access Server fail when you run the commands on an Exchange 2007 server in a disjoint namespace
954741 The UseRUSServer parameter does not work if an administrator has specified an RUS server on a target mailbox server
954898 The LegacyExchangeDN attributes for mail-enabled objects are incorrectly set in an environment that contains Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007
955027 The Edgetransport.exe process may crash on a hub transport server that is running Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
955462 You notice high CPU usage when the IMAP service is running on an Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 server that has the CAS role
955778 You receive a Non-Delivery Report (NDR) message when you send an e-mail message to a non-SMTP address in an Outlook client that is using Cached mode
956069 A Non-Delivery Report (NDR) is generated when an Exchange Server 2007 user tries to send a message to a recipient who has a one-off FAX address that includes any characters that are larger than 0xFF in Unicode
956205 Corrupted characters appear in the Subject field or in the Location field of a recurring calendar item after a user adds DBCS characters to a field in a meeting occurrence by using an Outlook 2002 client
956275 An Exchange 2007 sender's address is split into two separate addresses when an external recipient replies to the message
956455 The display name appears in a received message even though the property of the user mailbox is set to "Hide from Exchange address lists" in Exchange Server 2007
956687 Messages stay in the submission queue after you enable per-mailbox database journaling in an Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 coexisting environment
957019 Images cannot be pasted in an Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access message body
957071 The MSExchange Transport service may crash intermittently on the Exchange 2007 server
957124 You do not receive an NDR message even though your meeting request cannot be sent successfully to a recipient
957227 The Exchange Management Console crashes when one or more domain controllers of a top-level domain are not reachable
957485 The Test-OwaConnectivity command returns a warning message in Exchange Server 2007 when there is a disjoint namespace
957504 The IMAP4 service crashes intermittently, and Event ID 4999 is logged on Exchange Server 2007
957683 An IP Gateway can still be used to dial out for a "Play on Phone" request after the IP Gateway is disabled
957834 Network shares are deleted and created intermittently by the replication service on an Exchange SCC cluster when SCR is enabled on the Exchange server
957947 The Exchange Information Store service may crash when an Entourage client synchronizes with an Exchange 2007 server
958091 You cannot update the task complete percentage to any value other than 0 or 100 in Outlook Web Access
958093 Voice mail messages are not stamped with the disclaimer that is defined in the transport rule in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
958128 Replication messages stay in a queue in a retry state after a public folder database is dismounted
958331 The Restore-StorageGroupCopy command may fail in an Exchange Server 2007 SCR environment
958444 Event 522 is logged when replication is resumed on a suspended Storage Group on an Exchange Server 2007 CCR or SCR environment
958472 An unexpected text string appears at the top of the message body when an Exchange Server 2007 user sends an HTML message by using Outlook Web Access
958552 The ByteEncoderTypeFor7BitCharsets setting does not take effect for the US ASCII character set after you install the hotfix that is mentioned in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 946641
958638 Exchange 2007 Server cannot parse X-Priority headers from clients that submit X-Priority headers that contain additional comments
958803 The EdgeTransport.exe process may stop responding in Exchange Server 2007 when the priority queuing feature is enabled
958872 The Map This Address feature in the contact page for an OWA client does not work in Exchange Server 2007
959100 Exchange Server 2007 cannot route e-mail messages to mail enabled Non-MAPI public folders that are hosted on an Exchange Server 2003 server
959135 Event 9673 occurs when the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on a computer that is running Exchange 2007 with Service Pack 1
959397 An increase in database size is generated unexpectedly when IMAP4 users use a Copy command in Exchange 2007
959434 The last logon time is not updated to reflect the logon times that have occurred after users log on to their mailboxes by using the Entourage client in an Exchange 2007 environment
959545 A redirection message in Outlook Web Access 2007 is incorrect when the message is translated to Korean
959671 The Manage Mobile Devices option is not displayed in Exchange Management Console after a mobile device re-synchronizes with an Exchange 2007 server
959952 The Set-Mailbox command does not change the AutomateProcessing attribute for an Exchange Server 2007 user when a regular user mailbox is converted from a room mailbox
960291 Outlook Web Access or an Exchange Web Service application does not correctly display a monthly or yearly recurring appointment or meeting request
960292 The MSExchangeIMAP4 service may crash intermittently after you apply an update rollup for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
960349 The Exchange Information Store service may crash after you enable tracing for the logon actions
961281 An error is returned when you enable SCR from any source in a child domain after you install Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Rollup 5
961395 The Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging server does not update the caller information if an external user makes a call

How to Remove an Extra Operating System Iclude (Boot Menu)

2009-05-24T03:14:00.000-07:00

If you have more then one operating system installed or wish to remove an operating system from the boot menu, you can use the following information.

1.Click on Start, Control Panel
, System, Advanced.

2.Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings.

3.Under Default Operating System, choose one of the following:

"Microsoft Windows XP Professional /fastdetect"
-or-
"Microsoft Windows XP Home /fasdetect"
-or-
"Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional /fastdetect"

4.Take the checkmark out of the box for "Time to display a list of Operating Systems".

5.Click Apply and Ok, and reboot the system.

*If you wish to edit the boot.ini file manually, click on the button "EDIT"

Tired of Reinstalling Windows?

2009-05-24T03:13:00.001-07:00

My Suggestions For A Better And Easier Computing:

-> First partition ur HDD as follows. C: (primary, bootable) 10GB, D: (ur choice), E: (10 GB)

-> Next install 2 OSs, it can be XP,XP or XP,9X. One OS in C: and other E:
Let OS in C:\ be called "TRASH" and that in E:\ be called "GOOD"

-> Boot into GOOD OS. Install all the important software (image viewer, winamp, winrar, acrobat, ms-office etc) in E:\program files\. Tweak all you settings, Install all the latest drivers, AV, service packs, patches etc and do the same for TRASH if you want! ALSO INSTALL THE IMAGING SOFTWARE.

-> Now boot to TRASH OS and move the "E:\Documents and Settings" to D:\ and change the default Desktop folder and My Documents folder to d:\doc & settings of TRASH OS. (right click on My Doc, Properties. There just change E: to D:\ or manually "MOVE") for changing desktop u need a tweak program (I use X-Setup, fast and free) NOW INSTALL THE IMAGING SOFTWARE.

-> Depending on ur requirements, allocate pace for D: (say 15 GB). Now OS in E: is the main OS is called GOOD (just for easy identification). and the OS in C:\ is standby and is called TRASH (again this is for easy identification)

DONT FORGET TO ON BOTH THE OS. (I use Paragon HDD Manager, it is fine. The compression is good)

-> Boot into GOOD OS. and change the default Desktop folder and My Documents folder to d:\documents and settings.

-> Boot into TRASH OS. Defragment E:. Now load the imaging program, take the image or save image to file (NOT DRIVE COPY) and store safely (if it is on secondary hdd it is good) or if dont have one, save it to different partition or save on CD.

For installing image viewer, winamp, winrar, acrobat, ms-office and other must have apps use the Program Files folder (E:\)

Now you are done!

Since documents and settings is in D:\, if u restore from image, your private files are NOT lost.
The OS in C: is TRASH and the OS in E: is GOOD. These are just labels for better identification.

Use E:\ OS or GOOD as your primary OS. After this install any software utls to D:\. Sort software in categories like video, audio, dvd, cd, internet, graphics, protection etc. and install each app in thier sub-folder under the category.

If anything goes bad, goto standby OS, load Imaging app, restore the E-drive.

How To Disable Picture And Fax Viewer

2009-05-24T03:13:00.000-07:00

We all know that WinXP likes to keep itself held together, and how it doesnt like you uninstalling certain components. Well The Picture and Fax Viewer, is one of these programs which can cause problems if removed incorrectly. It can be disabled safely as follows:

[Start] [Run] type regedit and click [OK]

Navigate to :

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ SystemFileAssociations/ image/ ShellEx/ ContextMenuHandlers

then delete the Folder ShellImagePreview under ContextMenuHandlers

Note: If you want to restore the Picture and Fax Viewer :

Create the ShellImagePreview folder and create the String Value (Default)
Assign it the value {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}

NOTE: This tweak doesnt uninstall the program. It removes the association and therefore it cannot be run.

Scheduled Tasks - Defrag, How to set up Scheduled Defrags

2009-05-24T03:12:00.000-07:00

Scheduled Tasks - Defrag, how to set up scheduled defrags

oi m8s i figured this out because i ran into problems with trying to get windows task manager to defrag my hardrive at a certain time by only using built in tools.

Step 1

open up notepad (or favorite editor) and type:

defrag c:
defrag d:
defrag e:
defrag f:
defrag g:
defrag j:

make sure to change the drive letters to one that match your system. After you have customized the drive letters save the file as defrag_script.BAT or whatever is easy for you to remeber. Just make sure its a ".BAT" file. I saved the file into a dir in my documents called scripts but you can put it anywhere.

Step 2

Now that you have the script already made open your control panel and click on "Scheduled Tasks".

Select file>new>Scheduled Task

it should create a file on oin the window called "New Task" slect this and right click to properties.

In the run box click browse and navigate to your script. make sure that you run it with an account that has administrator rights otherwise it might not work.

Now select the schedule tab from the top and input the time and how often. I chose to urn it every noght however you could probably run it once a week and still be fine.

After yo uset the time and how often have a look in the settings tab and see if you need to change anything. Then click okay and your done!

you can also modify the script further by adding various operations on the ends of the defrag command:
CODE

-a Analyze Only
-f Force defragmentation even if free space is low
-v verbose output
-? Display help text

You can also pipe the command defrag to a log file if you want to see what went on the last time the script ran:
CODE

--this form will rewirte the log file erasing any previous info--
defrag x: -v > x:/logs/defrag_log.txt

--this form will append the new info to the end of the old--
defrag x: -v >> x:/logs/defrag_log.txt

Xp Remote Shutdown- Shut Down From Another PC

2009-05-24T03:11:00.000-07:00

XP PRO has a lot of fun utilities. One of the most useful ones I have found to date is the ability to remotely reboot a PC. There are 2 ways of doing this. You will need to have admin access to the PC to preform these actions. That being said, here is the first way to do it:

Right click my computer, choose manage.
Highlight the Computer Management (Local) then click on Action, choose connect to another computer.
In the window that opens fill in the machine name of the PC you want to connect to and click ok.
Once connected right click on Computer Management (Remote machine name) and choose properties.

Go to the "Advanced" tab and click the Settings button under Start up and recovery.
Click on the Shutdown button.

Under action choose what you want to do (you can log off current user, shut down, restart, or power down. you can also choose if you want to force all applications to close, close hung apps, or wait for all apps to close by themselves).

The second way... Remember dos... that good old thing. Open up a command prompt and enter in the following:

%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -m \\Machinename. The command prompt has more switches and options. I highly suggest using shutdown.exe /? to see all the posibilities.

Recover a Corrupted System File

2009-05-24T03:08:00.000-07:00

If an essential Windows file gets whacked by a virus or otherwise corrupted, restore it from the Windows CD. Search the CD for the filename, replacing the last character with an underscore; for example, Notepad.ex_. If it's found, open a command prompt
and enter the command EXPAND, followed by the full pathname of the file and of the desired destination: EXPAND D:\SETUP\NOTEPAD.EX_ C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE. If either pathname contains any spaces, surround it with double quotes.

If the file isn't found, search on the unmodified filename. It will probably be inside a CAB file, which Win XP treats as a folder. Simply right-drag and copy the file to the desired location. In other Windows platforms, search for a file matching *.cab that contains the filename. When the search is done, open a command prompt and enter EXTRACT /L followed by the desired location, the full pathname of the CAB file, and the desired filename; for example: EXTRACT /L C:\Windows D:\I386\Driver.cab Notepad.exe. Again, if the destination or CAB file pathname contains spaces, surround it with double quotes.

Free Download Manager (FDM)

2009-05-23T05:47:00.000-07:00

Increase download speed up to 600%

Free Download Manager is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is absolutely free now! Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before!

Free Download Manager is a light-weight, easy-to-use application. Also this software product is well-known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can function as a site manager, accelerator, site explorer and scheduler.

FDM can resume broken downloads. So you needn't start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted. Also this program warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers. It allows you to make a decision about the downloading. So with FDM you save your time and money.

FDM is an indispensable tool for download acceleration. It splits files into several sections and then downloads them simultaneously allowing you to increase your download speed up to 600%.

This software application can be used in automatic mode. You can schedule the following operations: set or hang up the Internet connection, exit from the program and shutdown the computer. All the operations mentioned above can be set at the specified time.

FDM allows adjusting traffic usage. So it provides you with an opportunity to browse web pages much faster if you use a low connection speed.

Download Free Version 1.54 MB

How Bloggers Make Money Online

2009-05-23T05:03:00.000-07:00

The most common way bloggers seem to make money online is via Google AdSense and most of them even make the mistake of just depending on it alone.

Inorder to make money online as a blogger you should not depend on just AdSense or any one revenue source alone. The trick to make more money from your blog is to add more revenue sources.

To make it easier for you, I have listed the common Ad programs that bloggers are currently using to make money through blogs.

AdSense: AdSense is a contextual advertising program for which publishers simply have to add a piece of code to their sites that helps Google analyze what your page is about so they can serve Ads on that topic. AdSense also allows you to earn money by using Google Search on your site that will display relevant Ads when visitors search on your site. AdSense also has a referral program that allows you to earn by recommending various products like Firefox toolbar, AdSense, Adwords, etc.
Text Link Ads: Text Link Ads will help you sell simple text links on your site easily. The monthly link price will depend on factors like your Google Pagerank and Alexa rank. As a new Advertiser on Text Link Ads you are eligible for $100 in FREE Links.Text Link Ads has an affiliate program that will pay you $25 for any referred visitor that is accepted into their publisher program and installs the advertising script on their site for seven days. If you refer an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in your affiliate account within 24 hours.
For more info, read my Text Link Ads Review and my post on how to make money online with Text Link Ads.
Tribal Fusion: Tribal Fusion’s payment is calculated based on ad impressions (CPM). So the higher your web site traffic is the more money you will earn. To get accepted though you will need a minimum of 2000 unique visitors per day.
Kontera: Kontera’s ContentLink is a double underlined contextually relevant keyword on a web page that upon mouse-over opens a small bubble like box that displays and links to an ad from one of Kontera’s advertisers. When a visitor clicks the in text advertisement, they will be taken to the advertiser’s web site and the publisher will make money online. With ContentLink, advertisers reach their targeted audience on a Cost Per Click (CPC) basis.ContentLink requires your site to have a minimum of 500,000 pageview per month, but I have seen them accepting new sites with lower pageviews.
Vizu Answers: Vizu Answers helps you earn money from your site by placing interactive Polls on desired topics. They pay you based on CPM (Cost per thousand impressions), and you even get to set the minimum CPM rate for each poll you put up on your web site.
ReviewMe: Pays you to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.
Chitika eMiniMalls: Chitika eMiniMalls is a cost per click advertising program that will perform particularly well for product related blogs.
Intellitxt: This is an in-text advertising program just like Kontera, but is harder to get accepted into.
FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN): FAN adds CPM ads to your feed. You may need around 500 RSS readers to get accepted.
BlogAds - BlogAds lets you set the price and helps you find advertisers for your blog easily. To perform better with BlogAds, place it at a more prominent position on your blog.

You can also make money with direct ad sales and through Affiliate programs like Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction (I have not tried these affiliate programs, but know that a few bloggers use them). Text Link Ads, ReviewMe and Aaron’s SEO book also offer affiliate programs that many bloggers use.

There are many more affiliate programs, you have to choose the one that matches your blog. Check here for tips on how to improve your Affiliate earnings.

Guest blogging on other blogs seems to be a new way of making money for bloggers these days, but some bloggers guest blog just for a link back.

I hope this post makes bloggers realize that they should not depend on just Google AdSense. May be in the beginning stage of a blog AdSense will do enough, but as your blog grows you should keep adding more revenue sources if you really want to earn from your blog. But also keep in mind that overloading your blog with Ads can make you lose readers.

To find more ways to make money online, check my <" title="Make Money Online">make money online page (this list will be updated often) and make money online category (this is where you can find more tips to make money online).

Let me know if you want to add any more common Ad programs (used by bloggers) to the list. I know there are a lot of ad programs that allow bloggers to make money online, but I just want to mention the most common ones used by bloggers to prevent confusion for new bloggers looking for ways to make more money with their blogs.

How To Increase Alexa Rank

2009-05-23T05:01:00.000-07:00

Alexa Rank is measured by the level of traffic your web site receives from the number of people who visit with the Alexa toolbar installed. It is important for you to increase your Alexa rank because advertisers and advertising services like Text Link Ads and ReviewMe use your site’s Alexa rank as a way to determine the worth of a link on your web site.

You can sell links on your site at a high price if you have a high Alexa Rank, so it is important to increase your Alexa Rank.

Dosh Dosh has suggested 20 quick ways to increase Alexa Ranking, out of which I tried only two and my Alexa Rank has already improved!

Around June last year I placed the Alexa Traffic Rank Button on this site and my Alexa Rank continually increased from around 90,000 to 20,000 until I removed the Alexa Traffic Rank Button after a redesign.

Only recently I noticed that my Alexa rank was decreasing slowly (around 26,000) and I decided to try out some of the tips suggested on Dosh Dosh.

I just tried two out of the 20 tips provided and my Alexa Rank has improved slowly from around 26,000 to 25,576 in about 2 weeks.

The two things I tried to improve my Alexa Ranking were:

Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension
Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website

What have you done to increase your Alexa Ranking?

how-to-increase-download-speeds-of-utorrent

2009-05-23T04:57:00.000-07:00

uTorrent was very slow for me until recently I applied a few tweaks. Here’s what I did.

Note: Some of the settings mentioned below are optimized for 256k connection. If you want to calculate the optimal settings for your connection, check at the end of this tutorial. But I suggest you to read the entire tutorial for guidance on other settings.

First go to Options>Preferences>Network

Under ‘Port used for incomming connections’, enter any port number. It is best to use a port number above 10000. I use 45682.
Randomize port each time utorrent starts: UNCHECKED. I leave this unchecked because I have a router. If you do not have a router or a firewall, and want extra security,check this option.
Enable UPnP port mapping (Windows Xp or later only): UNCHECKED. I leave this unchecked because I have experienced it slowing down speeds. It is not needed if you manually port forward.
Add utorrent to Windows Firewall exceptions (Windows XP SP2 or later only): UNCHECKED (do this only if you have windows firewall disabled)
Global Maximum upload rate (kb/s): [0: unlimited]: 22 (for 256k connection)
Protocol Encryption: ENABLED. I would recommend everyone to enable this. This can help increase speeds with many ISPs.
Allow incoming Legacy Connections: CHECKED

Options>Preferences>Torrents

Global Maximum Number of Connections: 130 (for 256k connection)This number should not be set too low or the number of connections made to your torrents will be limited. Setting it too high may cause too much bandwidth to be used and can cause slowdowns.
Maximum Number of connected peers per torrent: 70 (for 256k connection)If you see that the peers connected to a specific torrent are exactly this number, or very close, increase this number to improve speeds.
Number of upload slots per torrent: 3 (for 256k connection)This depends on how much you want to upload to other users. Do not set too low or it may affect download speeds.
Use additional upload slots if upload speed <90%: CHECKED
Maximum number of active torrents: 2 (for 256k connection)
Maximum number of active downloads: 1 (for 256k connection)
Enable DHT Network: CHECKEDThis is recommended to be checked to improve speeds. More people will be available for sharing if this is checked.
Enable DHT for new torrents: CHECKED
Enable Peer Exchange: CHECKED
Enable scrapping: CHECKED
Pre-allocate all files: CHECKED
Append .!ut to incomplete files: UNCHECKED

Options>Preferences>Advanced

net.max_halfopen: 50

If you use Windows XP SP2, patch tcpip.sys with LvlLord’s Event ID 4226 Patcher to get better performance.

DO NOT CHANGE THIS OPTION unless you have Windows XP SP2 and have patched tcpip.sys.

You can also patch tcpip.sys with xp-Antispy

If you have a firewall

Open up the options/preferences/settings for the firewall - usually your firewall will have an icon to click in the taskbar
Look for the keywords “allow list” or “programs”
Add the application you want to give access to the internet
Make sure to save your settings when you are done

If you have a router

Go to start>run>type cmd, press enter>type ipconfig, press enter
Remember both your ip address and your default gateway
Type in your default gateway into your default browser, a password prompt may come up. The default username and password are admin for my router
Under ‘Applications’ fill out one line for each p2p client you use
You need to use your ip address, the correct port range and set either tcp or udp
You can find and change the ports in the actual p2p client’s settings, just make sure they are the same in the router
Most p2p apps need both tcp and udp checked, if you are not sure check your p2p client’s FAQ
Save your settings

Check PortForward.com to forward ports for uTorrent.

Some of the settings I mentioned above are relative to my bandwidth.

How to calculate optimal settings for your connection

In order to apply the following tips you need to know your maximum upload and download speeds. You can test your bandwidth over here.

Maximum upload speed

If you use your Maximum upload speed, there won’t be not enough space left for the files you are downloading. So you have to cap your upload speed.

This is how I calculate my optimal upload speed…

upload speed * 80%

Maximum download speed

Setting your maximum download speed to unlimited will hurt your connection. So use this to calculate your optimal setting.

download speed * 90%

Maximum connected peers per torrent

upload speed * 1.3

Maximum upload slots

1 + (upload speed / 6)

Disable Windows Firewall

Windows Firewall hates P2P and so disable it and get yourself a decent firewall like Zone Alarm.

And last optimize your Internet connection with TCP Optimizer.

Know any other tricks to increase uTorrent’s download speed? Please share them here.

Outlook Web Access to Microsoft Exchange Server

2009-05-23T04:32:00.000-07:00

Outlook Web Access (OWA) allows any client with a compatible browser to access Exchange Server folders.

The "premium" version of OWA in Exchange 2003 looks and acts much like the Outlook 2003 desktop client, although it does not offer support for the Journal folder. The "basic" version looks more like previous versions. You may want to try both and see which is faster for the conditions your users are likely to encounter. Microsoft Exchange Server Introduction to Exchange Server 2003 has a good chart comparing the feature sets.

For Exchange 2000, you create applications using web forms. No conversion tool is available to turn Outlook forms into Exchange 2000 OWA forms. For resources and tools, see Microsoft Exchange Server Development Technologies. With Outlook 2002 and Exchange 2000, you can connect using OWA and Outlook 2002's support for HTTP mail servers (at least those that use WebDAV). The correct URL would be http://servername.domain.com/exchange/mailboxname.

There are issues using OWA on Vista because the dhtml text editor control used by OWA is not supported in Vista. The Exchange administrator should have installed the security patch for this on the Exchange server months ago, but many have not. The patch will fix this and a similar issue that affects Windows XP users who've installed the security patch described in MS06-013. The hotfix installs a new editor for Internet Explorer which uses an iframe instead of an ActiveX control.

If you are an end-user, contact your administrator. If you are an administrator, see the following links for more information and the hotfix.

You receive an error message when you try to perform any editing tasks, or you must click to enable the compose frame in Outlook Web Access http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/911829.

MS06-013: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (July 2006)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912812

OWA Problems on Vista (Exchange Messaging Outlook Jan 4 2007)

OWA 5.5 specific content is now at Outlook Web Access 5.5

OWA 2000 specific content is now at Outlook Web Access 2000

Managing Exchange Server Permissions

2009-05-23T04:28:00.000-07:00

Viewing Permissions

If you don't see permissions on objects in the Exchange Administrator program (4.0 - 5.5), choose Tools | Options, switch to the Permissions tab, then check the box for Show Permissions pages for all objects.

Folder Permissions

In Exchange 5.5 and earlier, existing folders do not automatically propagate permission changes to child folders. However, new folders do inherit permissions from their parents. Also, using the Exchange Administrator program, you can propagate settings to child folders.

If you are not the administrator and need to manage folder permissions, ask the administrator to set up some distribution lists that you can use for setting permissions on the folders. You will need to have permission to edit the DL. Then, when someone new needs to be added, you'll just change the DL -- adding and removing members through Outlook -- not the permissions on each folder.

Also see:

XCLN: How to Create Public Folders and Set Default Properties on All Subsequently Created Folders

XADM: Propagating Permissions to All Public Folder Subfolders

XADM: Using PFADMIN to Remove Public Folder Permissions

XADM You Cannot Add a Distribution Group to Permissions of a Public Folder in Exchange 2000 -- If you want to use a distribution group, you need AD in native mode.

XADM White Paper - Public Folder Permissions in a Mixed-Mode Microsoft Exchange Organization

Using a Security Group to Create Public Folder Permissions

Working with Store Permissions in Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003

User Reply Address

Several scenarios:

You want a user to be able to reply to messages sent to a public folder with the folder's address.

You want a user to be able to reply with another mailbox's address -- without the user's own address appearing anywhere on the reply.

You want to be able to send using the return address of a distribution list in the Global Address List (GAL).

The solution is the same in all cases: You must grant Send As permission on the folder or mailbox using the Exchange Administrator program or Active Directory. Send As is granted via accounts and groups, not mailboxes and Exchange distribution lists. If you want a user to send with a folder's address, the folder must not be hidden.

Once the user has Send As permission, they can use View | From Field in Outlook to display the From box and either click From to choose from the Address Book or type in the name of the public folder or other mailbox. If the public folder is hidden from the GAL, the user should go to the folder's Properties page and add the folder's address to their own address book.

See:

HOW TO Grant Send As and Send on Behalf Permissions in Exchange 2000 Server

XADM How to Grant a User Send As Rights in Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange 2000

Tools

Active Folders	Exchange Server folder and mailbox management tool suite including policy management, server-based compression, permissions management, audit trail and reporting. Can sweep all user mail folders -- including those in Personal Folders .pst files -- to locate particular attachments or messages meeting other criteria.
ERSA	"Exchange Security Risk Auditor" to audit and change mailbox permissions both for periodic security audits and for common events, such as an employee leaving the company.
Exchange Permission Manager	Assign permissions on multiple Exchange public folders and system folders and users can modify mailbox permissions in addition to public folder permissions, company-wide. It works with Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003; and, for reporting, you can print out current permissions on single or groups of folders. Version 2.
Folder Permissions Manager	Symprex Folder Permissions Manager allows administrators to centrally manage all permissions on mailbox folders and public folders on Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003. Folder permissions can be listed and changed manually, or using templates with permissions settings created using the built-in wizard. Permissions can be applied to any number of mailboxes and folders at the click of a button.
OWA Permissions Control	Web application for viewing and modifying folder permissions. Combines features of the company's former OWA Delegate Control and OWA Public Folder Control. (5 Mar)
PFAdmin	Tool from the Exchange 2000 Resource Kit to change permissions and replication settings for a folder and its subfolders. Does not work with any version of Exchange after Exchange 2000 SP1. Also see: XADM The Pfadmin Utility Does Not Work with Error Message OpenAddressBook Failed, Error 0x40380 XADM Error Message When You Set Permissions on Public Folders Invalid Windows Handle ID No 80040102 Exchange System Manager
PFDavAdmin	Free tool from Microsoft for managing permissions on public and mailbox folders, including all the way down to the item level. Requires .NET Framework. For use with Exchange 2000 Server, Exchage Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007.
PFInfo	Tool from the Exchange Server Resource Kit for generating a file with information about public folder permissions and replicas. See XADM Error Message Opening Address Book When Running the Pfinfo.exe Utility.
Public Folder Utility	View folder permissions and other properties. Export folder properties and permissions to a text file or relational database for analysis. Send customized messages to folder owners. Manage orphaned public folder client permissions.
SetPerm	Allows you to set default permissions on individual folders within mailboxes throughout your organization or on groups of mailboxes. Free.

Set All Calendars to Reviewer

Many organizations want people to not only see each other's free/busy times but also get appointment details. Therefore, they want to enforce a policy of using Reviewer as the default permission on each user's Calendar folder. This is not a capability built into Outlook, but you can perform this task with some of the tools above.

If you want to experiment, you could also create a custom application using CDO and the ACL Component from the Platform SDK to manage permissions; a version of Acl.dll compiled for Windows NT/2000 is available from Microsoft's FTP site (this site is not always responsive). If you need a Windows 95/98 version, you'll have to compile the C++ source yourself. More information:

Sue Mosher's pre-conference Workshop from Microsoft Exchange Conference 99 -- The PowerPoint presentation for Segment 5 (324kb) includes details on the ACL model. The source code (473kb) includes a sample Outlook 2000 VBA project that runs on Windows NT only.

Professional CDO Programming

Connecting Microsoft Exchange Server to a POP3 Account

2009-05-23T04:26:00.000-07:00

Downloading mail from a POP account into Exchange Server in general is not a supported configuration (though you wouldn't know it from the proliferation of tools to accomplish this). However, Microsoft does provide an Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes for Small Business Server, having licensed Internet Mailbridge from Acotec. It's still not a supported configuration for full Exchange Server.

I'd suggest that you read about both sides of this issue. If you decide to try this route, there are plenty of tools to choose from. Features common to all POP3 collectors include the ability to POP mail from multiple servers and from multiple mailboxes. You'll also be able to control how often it checks for new mail in the POP3 accounts and limit it to downloading new mail during specific hours, such as only during business hours. All of the commercial POP3 connectors should be able to deliver mail to any SMTP address, including mail-enabled Public Folders.

Many of these tools support these forms of POP3 collection:

One-to-one, which collects mail from a single POP3 mailbox and sends it to a specific SMTP address

Many-to-one, which collects mail from multiple POP3 mailboxes and sends it to single SMTP address

One-to-many, which collects mail from single 'catch-all' POP3 mailbox and sends it to multiple SMTP addresses

Note that the one-to-many collection method fails when messages are BCC'd to users.

How can I modify Group Policy's refresh interval?

2009-05-23T04:22:00.000-07:00

A. By default, Group Policy refreshes every 90 minutes for typical machines and users and every 5 minutes for domain controllers (DCs). To change these intervals, perform the following steps:

Open the relevant Group Policy Object (GPO). For example, open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, right-click the organizational unit (OU) or domain, select Properties, select the Group Policy tab, select the GPO, then click Edit.
Expand Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, Group Policy.
Double-click "Group Policy refresh interval for computers," then select Enabled. Enter the new refresh rate and the maximum random time to wait for the refresh (to avoid all machines updating at the same time), then click OK.
If required, double-click "Group Policy refresh interval for domain controllers," then select Enabled. Enter the new refresh rate, which should be significantly less than the average computer policy refresh rate, and the maximum random time to wait for the refresh (to avoid all machines updating at the same time), then click OK.
Expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, Group Policy.
Double-click "Group Policy refresh interval for users."
Again, select Enabled, set the necessary values, then click OK.
Close the Group Policy Editor (GPE).

You don't have to configure both the user and computer value--you can modify just one of them. You shouldn't set these values too low: Every update requires processing and adds to the network traffic, and short refresh rates can quickly cause larger network problems. For example, setting the update frequency to 0 would result in Group Policy attempting a refresh every 7 seconds, which probably isn't good for anyone.

How can I force Group Policy to refresh on a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP machine?

2009-05-23T04:21:00.000-07:00

A. To manually force Group Policy to refresh under Windows 2000, you use the command

secedit /refreshpolicy

Microsoft has replaced this command in Windows 2003 and XP with this command:

gpupdate

You can run this command without any switches to update both machine and user policies. When you run Gpupdate on Windows 2003, the machine will display the following:

Refreshing Policy... User Policy Refresh has completed.
Computer Policy Refresh has completed. To check for errors in policy processing, review the event log.

The last line doesn't appear on XP machines. To update only the user command components, type

gpupdate /target:user

To load only the computer command components, type

gpupdate /target:computer

The optional switches that you can use with the Gpupdate command are

/Force. This switch loads all policy settings rather than just those that have changed.
/Wait:. This switch specifies the amount of time to wait for the policy processing to finish before returning to the command prompt.
/Logoff. This switch causes the user to log off after Group Policy refreshes.
/Boot. This switch causes a reboot after Group Policy refreshes.
/Sync. This switch synchronously (i.e., in the background) applies the next boot or user logon policy (the system will prompt you to log off or reboot, depending on the /target setting).

How do I force Windows XP Local Group Policy to update?

2009-05-23T04:20:00.000-07:00

In windows 2000, you could use Secedit /refreshpolicy to force Group Policy to update, without waiting for the default update interval.

Windows XP provides Gpupdate for the same purpose. The syntax is:

GPUpdate [/Target:{Computer | User}] [/Force] [/Wait:value ] [/Logoff] [/Boot]

where:

[/Target:{Computer \| User}]	If the switch is omitted, both Computer and User policy settings are updated.
[/Force]	Causes all policy settings to be reapplied, not just the changed settings.
[/Wait:nnn]	If you omit this switch, the maximum wait time to complete the processing, and proceed to the next command, is 600 seconds. A nnn of 0 eliminates any wait, while an nnn of -1 will wait until policy processing is finished. If the wait time is exceeded, the next command is processed, but policy processing continues in the background.
[/Logoff]	This switch will log you off when policy processing finishes. It should be used if you apply a policy that is only applied during logon, like Folder Redirection. If no such policy was applied, the switch is ignored.
[/Boot]	This switch will restart the computer, if you apply a policy that can only be applied during startup, like computer-targeted Software Installation. If no such policy was applied, the switch is ignored.

Windows 2000 Group Policy refresh.

2009-05-23T04:18:00.000-07:00

Windows 2000 Domain Controllers refresh to other Windows 2000 Domain Controllers on 5 minute intervals. Non-DC Windows 2000 computers are refreshed every 90 minutes.

If many WIndows 2000 computers requested a refresh at the same time, significant congestion would occur. To avoid this, a random offset interval is added to the refresh interval, to calclate the the refresh cycle. Windows 2000 domain controllers use a 0 minute offset, while non-DC Windows 2000 computers use 30 minutes. The refresh information for user and computer policies are maintained separately.

You can use the Group Policy to change these settings, or you can use the registry:

        To change the refresh interval for computers:
       Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
       Value Name: GroupPolicyRefreshTime
       Data Type:  REG_DWORD
       Range (in minutes): 0 to 64800

       To change the offset interval for computers:
       Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
       Value Name: GroupPolicyRefreshTimeOffset
       Data Type:  REG_DWORD
       Range (in minutes): 0 to 1440


       To change the refresh interval for domain controllers:
       Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
       Value Name: GroupPolicyRefreshTimeDC
       Data Type:  REG_DWORD
       Range (in minutes): 0 to 64800


       To change the offset interval for domain controllers:
       Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
       Value Name: GroupPolicyRefreshTimeOffsetDC
       Data Type:  REG_DWORD
       Range (in minutes): 0 to 1440


       To change the refresh interval for users:
       Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
       Value Name: GroupPolicyRefreshTime
       Data Type:  REG_DWORD
       Range (in minutes): 0 to 64800


       To change the offset interval for users:
       Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
       Value Name: GroupPolicyRefreshTimeOffset
       Data Type:  REG_DWORD
       Range (in minutes): 0 to 1440

To immediately impose GPO settings upon a target workstation:

Computer:

SECEDIT /REFRESHPOLICY MACHINE_POLICY /ENFORCE

User:

SECEDIT /REFRESHPOLICY USER_POLICY /ENFORCE

Remove Desktop.ini & Folder.htt virus HTML.Redlof.A

2009-05-18T02:36:00.000-07:00

Redlof is polymorphic virus that embeds itself without any attachment to every e-mail sent from the infected system. It executes when an infected email message is viewed The HTML.Redlof.A is a very pestering virus. From what I gather, neither does it create any loss of data nor does it send any personal information across the net.

But what it does is horrible. It actually comes in the form of a script. The script is copied onto several other .htm, .html, .vbs, .asp, .htt, .jsp files on your hard drive. Then whenever any of these files are executed, the script is copied onto more files which create more files and so on.

VBS/Redlof.A@m executes directly from an infected message by using a security vulnerbility in Internet Exlorer known as Microsoft VM ActiveX Control Vulnerability. More information about the vulnerability and a fix is available from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-075.asp

The virus also infects files with extensions "htm", "html", "asp", "php", "jsp", "htt" or "vbs".

Redlof drops the following infected files:

\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery\blank.html
\Windows\System\Kernel32.dll
\Windows\web\kjwall.gif
\Windows\system32\desktop.ini

"blank.html" is used to replace the default stationaries for both Outlook and Outlook Express via registry causing that the every message sent from an infected system will carry the virus.
The "Kernel32.dll" is also set to registry so that it will be executed on the system restart:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Kernel32

Download Removel tools

http://www.gdata.pl/kmdownload/download.php?op=getit&id=61

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Redlof-Remover.shtml

System Admin Tools & Tips & Tricks

Build a website - easily

How can i copy the files in the debug folder to some other directory automatically ?

Add the following line of code to the Post build event in the project properties,call copy E:\projectdir\bin\Debug c:\test\

What is the name of the file you need to change to add pre- and post-build functionality into your custom package ?

Targets file.It is located in ,%WINDOWS%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets

Tell some of the new features of ASP.NET 3.5?

1. Expression Trees2. Controls 1. ListView 2. DataPager3. Support for LINQ, WCF , WPF and WWF

What are the options available on creating a branch?

There are 5 options available on creating a branch, they are : 1. Changeset 2. Date 3. Label 4. Latest Version 5. Workspace version

How will you check whether automated build is successful and call a custom task on successful build?

You can do that by providing the following config entry in the MS Build or TFS Build config file, BuildUri="$(BuildUri)" Condition=" '$(IsDesktopBuild)' != 'true' ">

What are the new Features in Team Build 2008 ?

1. Continuous Integration 2. Build Queuing 3. Scheduled Builds 4. Build Agent Management 5. Build Definition Editing GUI 6. Better Build Management 7. Managed object model 8. Improved extensibility

What are the blocks in Enterprise Library?

What are the Predefined bindings in WCF?

1. BasicHttpBinding 2. WSHttpBinding 3. WSDualHttpBinding 4. NetTcpBinding 5. NetNamedPipeBinding 6. NetMsmqBinding

What is the expansion of TDD?

Test-Driven-Development .

What will the deployment retail="true" do when set in a asp.net web.config file?

It forces the 'debug' attribute in the web.config to false, disables page output tracing, and forces the custom error page to be shown to remote users rather than the actual exception.

What is the Svcutil.exe ?

Service Model Metadata Utility Tool is used to generate the proxy from the client.

Explain what is a DTO?

A DTO is a pattern used to transfer data between applications.

What are the uses of Views?

What’s the difference between authentication and authorization?

What is Serialization ? What are the Types of Serialization and their differences?

What is assemblyInfo.cs file? Where can I find it? What is it for?

What is the name of the class used to read and get details of the files uploaded to asp.net?

What is web.config.? How many web.config files can be allowed to use in an application?

What are asynchronous callbacks in .net?

How to download webpage using asp.net and c# ?

How to download webpage using asp.net and c# ?

How to read and write from a text file using c#.net ?

what are the Differences between Abstract Class and Interface ?

How can you tell the application to look for assemblies at the locations other than its installed location?

How to read and write from a text file using c#.net ?

Microsoft Office 2010 (Portable)

Hiren's BootCD 9.9 With Multilingual Keyboard Patch

Exchange Server Database Corruption Due to “Error 1067”

Error -1216 in Exchange Server and EDB Recovery

EDB Corruption When Defragmentation Fails

Error While Moving Exchange Server Mailboxes

What is the meaning of 1216 error in Exchange Server and how to recover?

EDB Corruption and Access Problems in Exchange Server

EDB Corruption After Upgrading to Exchange Server 2000 SP3 or Later

Exchange Database Doesn’t Mount After Installing SP3 or Later to Exchange 2000

EDB Recovery after Corruption to the Database Elements

XP as Domain Controller

PowerGUI, a graphical user interface and script editor for Windows PowerShell!

Power Packs

User manuals

Blogs

Videos and Flash Demos

ADRestore GUI version

Download ADRestore.NET

Failover Clustering Windows 2008 Videos by John Savill

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

Features

To use PAL

Requirements

Few useful Debugging Commands - WinDbg

Installing Secondary DNS,

Installing Active Directory - Secondary Domain, Secondary Domain Controller in Windows 2000 Server

Installing Active Directory - Primary Domain, Primary Domain and Primary DNS in Windows 2000 Server

Universal Document Converter 4.2

ReSysInfo System Information Viewer

WinAudit Freeware v2.27 - PC Audit & Inventory Software

Standalone Virus Removal Tools

Firewall settings tab grayed out. It says "For your security, some settings are controlled by group policy" How to turn group policy OFF or fix this

Error message: "Virtual memory minimum is too low. Windows is increasing the size of the virtual memory paging file."

Difference between Windows XP Home and Professional Editions

What is diference between http and https?

Intel Dual Core & Core 2 Duo Processors - are they different?

What is the difference between DDR1 and DDR2 ram?

Difference between 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Vista OS

Cisco Network Magic Pro 5.0.8282

150.000 Universal Drivers 2009 (High Compress - Only 100MB)

Drivers Pack Autorun v2 - AIO

Add the following line of code to the Post build event in the project properties,
call copy E:\projectdir\bin\Debug c:\test\

Targets file.
It is located in ,
%WINDOWS%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets

1. Expression Trees
2. Controls
1. ListView
2. DataPager
3. Support for LINQ, WCF , WPF and WWF

There are 5 options available on creating a branch, they are :
1. Changeset
2. Date
3. Label
4. Latest Version
5. Workspace version

You can do that by providing the following config entry in the MS Build or TFS Build config file,
BuildUri="$(BuildUri)"
Condition=" '$(IsDesktopBuild)' != 'true' ">

1. Continuous Integration
2. Build Queuing
3. Scheduled Builds
4. Build Agent Management
5. Build Definition Editing GUI
6. Better Build Management
7. Managed object model
8. Improved extensibility

1. BasicHttpBinding
2. WSHttpBinding
3. WSDualHttpBinding
4. NetTcpBinding
5. NetNamedPipeBinding
6. NetMsmqBinding