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Mac user like me you only have one source for driver updates. All Mac users have to do is click “Software Update” and Steve Jobs takes care of the rest. For PC users it is a different story, there are multiple vendors, different video cards, different sound cards, tracking down all the right drivers can take time on File Extension 09.
The ALC882 series 7.1+2 ChannelHigh Definition Audio codecswith UAA (Universal Audio Architecture), featuring five 24-bit stereo DACs and three 20-bit stereo ADCs, are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems.
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The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7.1 sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the Front-Out-Left and Front-Out-Right channels. Flexible mixing, mute, and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs.
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By default, forms-based authentication is not enabled for Outlook Web Access in Exchange2007. Forms-based authentication stores the user’s user name and password in a cookie instead of in the browser. When the user leaves an OWA session or after the expiration of the inactivity period, the cookie is cleared. As a result, the user must re-authenticate to use OWA again. This is a good security measure.To enable the Outlook Web Access logon page, do the following:
Open the Exchange Management Console.
Choose Server Configuration > Client Access.
Click the “Owa (Default Web Site)” entry.
From the Action pane, choose the Properties option.
From the Owa (Default Web Site) Properties page, click the Authentication tab. Under the “Use Forms-Based Authentication” option there are three options for enforcing a particular logon format. The Domain\User Name option is self-explanatory and is useful if you have multiple domains. The User Principal Name (UPN) option, or e-mail address format, is probably the easiest for users to remember since they use it all the time. The User Name Only option is the last option, which is also self explanatory. If you choose the User Name Only format, you also need to choose a Logon Domain.
Click OK
Because this change affects IIS, you must restart IIS. From a command line on the Outlook Web Access server, issue the command iisreset /noforce.
If you were an early adopter of USB flash drives, you may still have a 128 MB or a 256 MB USB flash drive in the back of your desk drawer. Even though the dusty drive may seem too small to be of any real use, you can put it back to work as a password reset disk for Windows Vista.
In this edition of the Windows Vista Report, I’ll show you how to create and use a password reset disk in Vista using a USB flash drive rather than a floppy disk.
The USB flash drive
First, let’s take a moment to talk about the USB flash drive. The reason that I’m spotlighting your old small-capacity USB flash drive is that it is really too small to be of much use in today’s world due to that fact that portable storage needs are now reaching more towards the GB range. However, that’s not to say that you couldn’t use a 1 GB USB flash drive for a password reset disk. Some might consider that to be a waste of disk space because the password reset file only weighs in at 2 KB, but flash drives are inexpensive — you can pick up a 1 GB USB flash drive for under $20 or a 128 MB USB flash drive for under $5.
Creating a password reset disk
Follow these steps to create a password reset disk:
1. Insert your USB flash drive and wait for it to initialize and receive a drive letter.
2. Once the drive is ready to use, click the Start button and typeUser Accountsin the Start Search box.
3. Press [Enter] or click User Accounts in the Results panel. Either way, you’ll see the User Accounts dialog box. You will need to locate and click Create A Password Reset Disk in the Tasks panel (Figure A).
Figure A
When the User Accounts dialog box appears, click Create A Password Reset Disk in the Tasks panel.
4. When you see the Forgotten Password Wizard’s Welcome screen, take a look at the information and click Next.
5. On the next screen, you’ll receive a prompt to choose your USB flash drive’s drive letter (Figure B). To continue, click Next.
Figure B
Choose the drive letter assigned to your USB flash drive.
6. On the next screen, type your Currrent User Account Password (Figure C) and then click Next.
Figure C
When prompted, type your current user account password and click Next.
7. You’ll see a rapidly moving progress bar. Once it reaches 100 percent, click Next, and you will see the last screen in the Forgotten Password Wizard. To complete the operation, click Finish.
8. Click the Safely Remove Hardware icon, choose your USB flash drive’s drive letter, and remove the drive when prompted to do so.
9. Label the drive and put it away in a safe place.
While you may be tempted to label the drive Password Reset, remember that anyone who happens upon this drive can use it to bypass your password and break into your computer. Try a label that will help you recognize the drive but that isn’t so obvious.
Using a password reset disk
If you type an incorrect password in Vista, The User Name Or Password Is Incorrect error message will appear on the login screen (Figure D). Click OK.
Figure D
At this point, the only thing you can do is click OK.
Follow these steps:
1. Return to the login screen, where you will reset your password below the Password box (Figure E).
Figure E
To launch the Password Reset Wizard, click the Reset Password message.
2. Insert your USB flash drive and wait for it to initialize and receive a drive letter.
3. To launch the Password Reset Wizard, click Reset Password.
4. When you see the Password Reset Wizard’s Welcome screen, take a look at the information and click Next.
5. Choose your USB flash drive’s drive letter (Figure F) on the next screen and click Next.
Figure F
Choose the drive letter assigned to your USB flash drive.
6. The Password Reset Wizard will open the saved file, read your saved password, and perform a few operations in the background.
7. The wizard will then prompt you to create and confirm a new password. You’ll also have to create a new password hint (Figure G).
Figure G
Create a new password, confirm it, and create a new hint.
8. Clicking Next will take you to the Success screen. Click Finish to complete the operation.
You can now use the new password to log on to your Vista system.
Note: As soon as you use the Password Reset Wizard to change your password, the information in the password reset file on the USB flash drive will be outdated. Therefore, as soon as you log back into Vista, you should run the Forgotten Password Wizard again and create a new password reset file.
Will you try it?
Now that Vista supports a USB flash drive for the password reset disk, do you think that the password reset disk creation procedure will be easier? If you have used a password reset disk in Windows XP, what was your experience? Post your thoughts in this article’s discussion.
Note: All credits goes to original author-Greg Shultz
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD
Forgot your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista admin password?
Reinstall? Oh no... But not any more...
This is a utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista etc system.
You do not need to know the old password to set a new one.
It works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off a floppydisk or CD or another system.
Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!
There is also a registry editor and other registry utilities that works under linux/unix, and can be used for other things than password editing.
NT stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible. But thanks to a German(?) named B.D, I've now made a program that understands the registry.
This site provides CD and floppy images for end users to easily edit their forgotten passwords. But it also provides full source code and binary builds of the tools to allow others to use as they like for other purposes. Registry format documentation also available.
Latest release is 080802 (2008-08-02)
The following is available for download and information:
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD
If you have the CD, all drivers are included.
I've put together a single floppy or CD which contains things needed to edit the passwords on most systems. The CD can also be installed on a USB drive, see readme.txt on the CD.
The bootdisk should support most of the more usual disk controllers, and it should auto-load most of them. Both PS/2 and USB keyboard supported.
Tested on: NT 3.51, NT 4 (all versions and SPs), Windows 2000 (all versions & SPs), Windows XP (all versions, also SP2 and SP3), Windows Server 2003 (all SPs), Vindows Vista 32 and 64 bit, and some say it works on Server 2008 (32 & 64 bit)
DANGER WILL ROBINSON! If used on users that have EFS encrypted files, and the system is XP or Vista, all encrypted files for that user will be UNREADABLE! and cannot be recovered unless you remember the old password againIf you don't know if you have encrypted files or not, you most likely don't have them. (except maybe on corporate systems)
How to use?
If you use the floppy, you need one or more of the driver floppies, too.
Overview
Get the machine to boot from CD (or floppy)
Floppy version need to swap floppy to load drivers.
Load drivers (usually automatic, but possible to run manual select)
Disk select, tell which disk contains the Windows system. Optionally you will have to load drivers.
PATH select, where on the disk is the system?
File select, which parts of registry to load, based on what you want to do.
Password reset or other registry edit.
Write back to disk (you will be asked)
DON'T PANIC!! - Most questions can usually be answered with the default answer which is given in [brackets]. Just press enter/return to accept the default answer.
What can go wrong?
Lots of things can go wrong, but most faults won't damage your system.
The most critical moment is when writing back the registry files to NTFS.
The most common problem is that the computer was not cleanly shut down, and my disk won't write correctly back. (it says: read only filesystem). If so, boot into Windows Safe Mode (F8 before windows logo appears) and shut down from the login window. You may have to do that twice in a row.
Also, see theFAQfor help with other common problems.
For linux-knowledged people, you may do things manually if the scripts fail, you have shells on tty1-tty4 (ALT F1 - ALT F4).
This hopefully removes some problems regarding dirty and "bad flags" NTFS volumes.
You will be asked if you like to force your way and continue anyway if the disk has been uncleanly shut down.
There exists a small chance of problems with the very latest written files before the unclean shutdown if you select to force it.
Safest is still to boot into windows and shut down properly if that is possible with an unclean volume.
Path select now hopefully better at detecting default suggestion and to actually find it...
Newer kernel, and probably newer and better drivers.
No changes to the passord/registry edit program (chntpw) since last release.
Sorry, did not have the time to finish the floppy version yet.
2008-05-26
Newer kernel, and probably newer and better drivers.
Windows Dynamic Disks now supported, but maybe not all combinations of mirrors etc. It recognizes the partition layout at least.
Should now be possible to load extra drivers (drivers?.zip) from USB the same way as with floppy. Or maybe not. Did not test it that much.
Fixed a lot of bugs in the registry handling, did not affect password reset much, but did affect larger registry edits.
You still may experience hangs when the NTFS disk is mounted, it will hang after saying "NTFS version x.xx" or such. If there is disc activity, just wait, it may take a while.
2007-09-27
Patched up NTFS driver to get rid of hang on mount in many cases (after selecting disk). Got many problem reports on this. At the same time someone on the NTFS-for-linux mailinglist mentioned it, and Anton Altaparmakov made a patch very quick. Thank you Anton!
Nice if people experiencing the hang in 2007-09-23 can mail me and tell if the fix worked or not. Thanks!
NOTE: It may still take up to a minute or two to select the disk.
Floppy version had a script bug making it crash in the first menu. Fixed.
CCISS driver (HP/Compaq DLxxx etc) had different device paths. Hacked in support for it, may not be 100% still.
2007-09-23
Floppy version is back! (requires 3 floppies to get all drivers, but you can compose your own driver set so you only need 2)
Yes, VISTA is supported (even more)
Disk select now indicates which disks are removable, ie are USB keys for instance.
Check for "read-only" NTFS mount, you get instructions on what to do if there are problems with the disk so changes won't be saved.
Missed out on some IDE/ATA and SATA drivers last time, better now.. I hope.
User can be added to the administraror group, making them administrators.
Stupid typo in readme.txt on CD fixed, on how to make USB bootable.
2007-04-09
Now with Vista support!
Newer drivers, better probe/loader. Should be able to auto-load all relevant drivers for PCI based disk hardware.
Better manual selection of drivers (if you need to load ISA drivers for example)
CD only release at this time. If anyone need me to continue floppy releases, please mail me.
USB drive can be made out of the files on the CD, see readme.txt on the CD.
2005-03-03
New CD release (sorry, when yet again rewiring the driver stuff, I did not have time to make floppy stuff work)
Contains disk driver updates (SATA maybe more working now)?
New driver auto-probe and load. Better now?
NTFS updates, writes should be more safe, I hope, working more often.
No changes to the password routines themselves.
2005-03-03
Driver update only, with a few fixes to the autoprobe, too.
Some popular drivers like aacraid, megaraid and some SATA-drivers were problematic or missing, now hopefully here.
Note that most SATA-drivers also need the libata.ko.gz file, autprobe loads it if needed.
The driver archive are too big to include all drivers on a floppy so remove some you're sure you don't need. Remember to always keep pcitable.gz and moddep.gz if you want autoprobe to work.
The CD of course includes all drivers.
The manual try-all-drivers load is buggy, and won't try to load all drivers, it will stop after each that has not been tried before. But specifying a single driver directly still works.
No changes to password edit routines
(earlier history removed) 9705xx
First public release.
Download
Note: Some links may be offsite.
CD release, see below on how to use
cd080802.zip(~3MB) - Bootable CD image.(md5sum: 33ecd38263f935b82e7b2e3e9f5de563)
cd080526.zip(~3MB) - Previous release, Bootable CD image.(md5sum: 1c6f5af7c682b7ee5d01935bc11f37f6)
Bootable USB drive may be made from the files on the CD. See readme.txt on the CD.
drivers1-080526.zip(~310K) - Disk drivers (mostly PATA/SATA)(md5sum: 72ac1731c6ba735d0ac2746a30dbc3ee)
drivers2-080526.zip(~1.2M) - Disk drivers (mostly SCSI)(md5sum: 30172bec657c85a5f1a0b43601452fb7)
NOTE: Versions before 0704xx will corrupt the disk on VISTA!
NOTE THAT THE BOOTDISK CONTAINS CRYPTHOGRAPHIC CODE, and that it may be ILLEGAL to RE-EXPORT it from your country.
How to make the CD
Unzipped, there should be an ISO image file (cd??????.iso). This can be burned to CD using whatever burner program you like, most support writing ISO-images. Often double-clikcing on it in explorer will pop up the program offering to write the image to CD. Once written the CD should only contain some files like "initrd.gz", "vmlinuz" and some others. If it contains the image file "cd??????.iso" you didn't burn the image but instead added the file to a CD. I cannot help with this, please consult you CD-software manual or friends.
The CD will boot with most BIOSes, see your manual on how to set it to boot from CD. Some will auto-boot when a CD is in the drive, some others will show a boot-menu when you press ESC or F10/F12 when it probes the disks, some may need to have the boot order adjusted in setup.
How to make the floppy
The unzipped image (bdxxxxxx.bin) is a block-to-block representation of the actual floppy, and the file cannot simply be copied to the floppy. Special tools must be used to write it block by block.
Unzip the bd zip file to a folder of your choice.
There should be 3 files: bdxxxxxx.bin (the floppy image) and rawrite2.exe (the image writing program), andinstall.batwhich uses rawrite2 to write the .bin file to floppy.
Insert a floppy in drive A:NOTE: It will lose all previous data!
Run (doubleclick)install.batand follow the on-screen instructions.
Thanks to Christopher Geoghegan for the install.bat file (some of it ripped from memtest86 however)
Or from unix:
dd if=bd??????.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
How to make and use the drivers floppy
Simply copy the zip file onto an empty floppy.
You MUST NOT UNZIP THE ZIP FILE!
Depending on your hardware you may only need one of the driver sets or the other, or maybe both.
To use, insert one of the driver floppies when asked for it after booting, the zip file will be unzipped to memory.
If no drivers matched (no harddisk found), you can select 'f' from the main menu to load the other driver set.
Then select 'd' to auto-start the new drivers (if it matches your hardware)
Sometimes it fails detecting the floppy change and you get an error, just select 'f' again, it works the second time.
For more advanced users that uses this often, it is possible to unzip just the drivers you need and zip them up into a new zip archive. The zip file name must start with "drivers", the rest is ignored. (it unzips drivers*.zip)
How to fix itif you lost your admin password for your ActiveDirectory. Thanks to John Simpson.
Other ways to recover lost password etc atMCSE World
Bootdisk credits and license
Most of the stuff on the bootdisk is either GPL, BSD or similar license, you can basically do whatever you want with all of it, the sourcecode and licenses can be found at their sites, I did not change/patch anything.
The "chntpw" program (password changer, registry editor) is licensed under GNU GPL v2.COPYING.txt
Click on theinstall.batafter extracting the .zip file, and follow the on screen prompts.
The keyboard does not work! I can't answer the questions!!
If you have a USB keyboard either your USB controller or your keyboard is not supported with the rather generic drivers I use. Nothing I can do at the moment, sorry! Try a PS/2 keyboard if possible.
If the keyboard is PS/2 and won't work, I do not have a solution. Sorry.
When loading the floppy it stops with "boot failed."
Bad floppy. Or bad bootloader (some versions are known to give up easy)
Use another floppy or a new version of the ldlinux.sys file (go allthewebbing for it for instance. grab one from a linux distros bootdisks. I did.)
I have the CD in my CD drive, but it starts on the haddrive.
Check your BIOS manual on how to boot from CD, or if the CD-ROM is on a SCSI-card, check the cards manual.
For those of you without manuals: Try hitting ESC or F10 or F12 for bootmenu right after the RAM-count.
Or enter BIOS setup and change the boot order. Either you can figure that one out from the menus, or you really need the manual.
I don't remember when BIOS-folks started implementing the CD boot (El Torito) standard, but it was around 1995? Older computers won't CD boot.
But BIOS-programmers never actually READ the bloody standard, so you may have a buggy one that only boots some CDs.
If it boots (first banner page), the same problems as for the floppy may show, please read on..
The floppy stuff crashes with "VFS: Unable to mount root.." and panic etc.
The are several ways of getting the size of the memory out of the BIOS at boot.
It probably selected the wrong one, and 16MB is a bit too little.
Strangely, this most often happens on big brand machines, like Compaq and DELL.
At boot, hold down LEFT SHIFT key until "Boot: " prompt appears.
Then enter:
boot mem=128M
but substitute with how much memory you have (or a bit less to be safe)
If this doesn't help, there is probably not support for your motherboard, CPU or BIOS.
It cannot find any NT disks or paritions.
Some controllers require more than one driver. Usually the auto-load should take care of dependencies, but it does not hurt to try auto-load (d) again.
It's either caused by unsupported controller or filesystem driver problems.
See next questions..
Please don't ask about inclusion of new drivers. I'm often short on time, get lot's of mail, and it's difficult to put in things I cannot test.
If you really insist on asking for new drivers, you must at least provide me with correct info on controller card or chip brandname, type, model etc, and a link to website(s) with drivers for linux. If there also are docs for using it on linux, I need that, too. However, as I get a lot of mail, I cannot guarantee an answer or that your needed driver will be included.
Install new NT/2k/XP in another dir than \winnt etc, then login with new install to access the old ones sam file. Either rename it (will leave admin with blank pass) or use chntpw.exe on it.
You could boot a live linux CD (likeUbuntuor others), it will allow access to the windows disk. Then run the "chntpw.static" program included in the source zip file on the sourcedownload page
There is a menu selection for it. Put file(s) drivers*.zip on a floppy or on a USB stick (may be a different one from the one you boot from). The zips should contain *.ko files. The files will be automatically unzipped and ready for auto-load or manual menu selection.
I do not know how easy or difficult it will be to actually get the drivers to load into my kernel. There may be versions incompatibilities.
It hangs when mounting the windows disk
Hangs when it says something like "NTFS volume version 3.xx"
If there is disk activity, just wait. Took more than 10 minutes in one of my tests once.
If there is no disc activity, what a few minutes, then reset and try again.
If it still hangs, try to boot windows into safe mode first, then shut down etc. See other faq entries about that.
It seems to change the password, but NT won't agree.
The NTFS code wasn't that great after all (probably didn't write things properly)
My code wasn't that great after all. (it didn't change or changed in the wrong place. The V struct is still marked "here be dragons..")
Try blanking the password instead (menu selection 1), this may straighten things out. In fact, reports indicate: BLANKING RECOMMENDED!
If it still won't work, see the previous solution.
Blanking will probably be the only option in newer releases.
I'm told that the account is locked, even if I know it is not.
Ok, then the code to identify lockout is not good enough. Sorry for that.
Happens sometimes when there are failed logins on a user, even if it is not in fact locked out.
Just ignore it, you may still clear the password if you wish.
I'm not told that the account is locked out, even Windows says it is. How can I reset it?
Oops, probably more to the lockout stuff than I know about.
You can try resetting it (selection 4 from the user menu), but it may not help.
May have something to do with Security / Group policies, which editing of is not supported yet.
Unless you'd like to play with the registry editor yourself and figure it out. I cannot give lessons in registry edit.
The user promotion (putting user into admin group) did not work: I cannot log in!
Some users (like Guest often) are prevented from login by "Security policies". Does it say something like that when trying?
Sorry, but my program cannot change policy settings. (yet?)
It does not even know how to check them.
Sorry, nothing to do..
The user promotion (putting user into admin group) worked, but I cannot put user back into other groups in windows!
This is known to happen sometimes.
Try the local user part of "computer management" in "administrative tools", it is more detailed than the stupid control panel applet.
But that may not work, either.
Sorry, have no other known workarond. I told you it was experimental!
I tried it on Win2k/2k3 PDC (Active Directory), and it didn't change the password.
ActiveDirectory (AD) is a completely different database.
There is no support for directly changing passwords in AD.
To clear things up: The Active Directory SERVER itself is not directly supported, but workstations (w2kprof) and servers (w2k server) that is just MEMBERS of the domain can have their LOCAL passwords changed by the utility.
But..
John Simpson has madeinstructionson how to reset that pesky lost administrator password in AD.
Many thanks goes to John for this!
And I may as well in a future relase make a frontend for the screensaver trick he uses, so it will be even easier.
What is the 'Can't access tty...' error message when I quit the floppy/cd procedure?
It's from the shell, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the password edit.
My scripts don't allocate the terminal correctly.
Only thing it means is that ctrl-c to break etc won't work on console 1. Should work on console 2-4 (ALT-F2 and so on)
Please don't ask about this in mail AGAIN!
My language uses characters in the usernames that are not readable with the floppy, and i cannot enter/search for them, thus not edit.
There is no support for the full unicode character set. Perhaps never will.
Select user with the RID (user ID) instead.
At the username prompt, enter the RID in hex, just as it is listed in the user listing. 0xfa0 for instance.
What about support? and I just paid $$ for it on eBay!
Yes, some people sell it on eBay.
Most of them didn't bother to ask me, but I haven't cared too much about it, at least not yet.
If the price is reasonably low (for media, shipping etc), they offer some kind of help and support if customers need it, that's good, and no problem for me.
Please do not blaim me if eBay sellers can't deliver or it doesn't work, or you feel ripped off. Leave feedback on eBay instead.
I DO NOT ENDORSE ANY SPECIFIC SELLER ON eBAY!
I give my tool away for free here, because I do not have the time for real support.
Usually I go through my mail 1 or 2 times a week, and I usually end up replying about 40-50% of it.
What I answer depends on my mood that day, what the problems are, and how they are presented.
Mails with questions for which an answer can be found here in the FAQ or on the other webpages will not be answered.
Questions for drivers will almost never be answered. They take too much time to figure out. Sorry.
And.. I understand English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
My answers are either in English or Norwegian. (as appropriate :-)
Thank you all for a lot of positive feedback or small tips for improvement, I appreciate it :-)even if I often don't reply to you. :-(
Can I donate money?
Not a the moment, I have closed the donations. There are several reasons I will not talk about.
But a big thank you to all that have donated, especially to some I guess I have missed a personal reply to!
All credits Goes to Original Author:.pnordahl@eunet.no
Disclaimer
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE (MIS)USE OF THIS SOFTWARE!
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Change the font Windows XP displays in Windows Explorer
Note: This tip is for both Windows XP Home and Professional.
Windows Explorer and My Computer display the same font that Windows XP uses for icon titles on your desktop: 8-point Tahoma. If you want to change the font or font size used in Windows Explorer, follow these steps:
1. Access the Display Properties dialog box by right-clicking the desktop and selecting the Properties command.
2. Select the Appearance tab and click the Advanced button.
3. Select Icon from the Item drop-down list.
4. Use the Font drop-down arrow to select a font from the list.
5. Click OK twice—once to close the Advanced Appearance dialog box and once to close the Display Properties dialog box.
You can see the new font by launching Windows Explorer or My Computer. If you don't like what you see, simply repeat the steps and select a different font.
Prevent a shutdown of a Windows XP system
This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional. Since editing the registry is risky, be sure you have a verified backup before saving any changes.
By default, at three o’clock every morning Windows XP’s Automatic Updates tool contacts the Windows Update site and automatically downloads and installs updates for your system. However, that can't happen if other people who use the computer shut it down at the end of the day. Fortunately, you can prevent anyone from shutting down Windows XP with a little registry tweak. Here’s how:
1. Launch the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.
3. Right-click the Explorer subkey and select New | DWORD Value.
4. Name the key NoClose and press Enter twice.
5. Type 1 in the Value Data text box and click OK.
To enable the setting, close the Registry Editor and restart your system. Once your system restarts, you will not be able to it shut down by clicking the Shutdown button on the Start menu. This will prevent most users from inadvertently shutting down the computer.
When you do want to shut down your system, just access Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete, then pull down the Shut Down menu and select the Turn Off command.
Off hours: Put your name in the Windows XP notification area
During those times when the urgent need for high-powered technical intelligence wanes a bit—especially on a slow Friday afternoon—try this fun trick and amaze your colleagues. Here’s how to make your “own” time by putting your name in the notification area:
1. Access the Control Panel from the Start menu.
2. Double-click Regional And Language Options.
3. Click the Customize button in the Standards And Formats panel of the Regional Options tab.
4. When the Customize Regional Options dialog box appears, select the Time tab.
5. In the AM Symbol and PM Symbol boxes, you can replace that text with your name or whatever word you want, as long as it's no longer than 12 characters.
6. To complete the operation, click OK twice—once to close the Customize Regional Options dialog box and once to close the Regional And Language Options dialog box.
You’ll instantly see your name appear in the notification area right next to the time.
Create your own special characters in Windows XP
Have you ever wanted to create your own font or maybe just a special character—for example, a character showing your initials for approving documents with your “signature”? You can easily create your own characters using a hidden Windows XP tool called the Private Character Editor. Here’s how:
1. Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog box.
2. Type eudcedit in the Open text box and click OK.
3. When the Private Character Editor launches, you’ll see the Select Code dialog box. Click OK.
4. A user interface that looks and works very much like Paint will appear. Here, you can use standard tools to create your characters.
5. When you finish, select the Save Character command on the Edit menu.
Once you save your new character, you can access it using the Character Map tool. Here’s how:
1. Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog box.
2. Type charmap in the Open text box and click OK.
3. When the Character Map appears, select the Font drop-down list and select All Fonts (Private Characters).
4. Select your character, click the Select button, and then click the Copy button.
You can now paste your font character into any document that you want.
Automatically generate and assign strong passwords in Windows XP
This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional systems in either a stand-alone or peer-to-peer workgroup configuration.
Computer users consistently use very simplistic logic when creating passwords. For example, many of us choose meaningful words, personal dates, or a word commonly found in the dictionary because it makes the password easy to remember. These common practices cause us to sacrifice the security that passwords are intended to provide.
If you’re really at a loss when it comes to thinking of a strong password, you can let Windows XP create and assign a random password to your account. To let Windows XP generate your password, follow these steps.
Warning: Before you follow these steps, please be sure that you are paying careful attention and are ready to actually use a password that might not be as memorable as you’re accustomed to! Also, you cannot use this tip on a Windows Server domain.
1. Open a Command Prompt window and type:
net user username /random (username is your login account name)
2. Press Enter. Windows XP will randomly generate a secure password, as well as assign that strong password to your account. Windows XP will also display the strong password so you can remember it.
At your discretion, you may want to create a Password Reset Disk at this point. This disk will allow you to gain access to your computer in the event you forget your password. Here’s how to create the disk:
1. Open the Control Panel and double-click the User Accounts tool.
2. Click your account icon.
3. Select Prevent A Forgotten Password under Related Tasks.
4. Follow the instructions provided by the wizard.
Quickly gather MAC addresses in Windows XP with ARP
This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Professional.
When securing a wireless Windows XP network, in addition to using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption, you can use Media Access Control (MAC) address filtering.
When you enable MAC address filtering, the wireless access point or wireless router verifies that the network card in the computer requesting access has a MAC address in its filter list before allowing the computer to access the network. This means that you must first obtain the MAC addresses of each client computer. To do so, you might think that you have to manually visit each computer and use the Getmac command.
An easier way to gather MAC addresses is to take advantage of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) command. Here’s how:
1. From one computer, use the Ping command to ping each of the other client computers that will connect to the wireless access point or wireless router.
2. Type the ARP command along with the -a parameter:
Arp -a
When used with the -a parameter, the ARP command displays the ARP cache, which stores the IP and MAC addresses of the computers that most recently accessed the system—or in this case, those computers that responded to the Ping command.
Create an old-time monochrome command prompt in Windows XP
This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional.
In what some may call the olden days, before there were fancy graphical user interfaces and RGB monitors, early computer monitors were monochrome, meaning that they displayed only one color on a black background. Monochrome monitors were available in three colors: green, amber, and white.
When you open up a Command prompt in its default configuration, it comes up in a white monochrome configuration with white text on a black background. If you’re like most command line users, you’ve changed the color scheme from the Color tab on the Command Prompt Properties dialog box to make the screen more appealing.
However, if you’re ever feeling nostalgic when working from a Command Prompt, you can change the settings on the Color tab to emulate the old green monochrome or amber monochrome monitors. Here’s how:
1. Open a Command Prompt window.
2. Right the title bar and select the Properties command.
3. Select the Colors tab.
4. Select the Screen Background button and select the black box in the color palette.
5. Select the Screen Text button.
6. To emulate an old green monochrome monitor, select the green box in the color palette, and then in the Selected Color Values panel use the spin button for the Green setting to move the number up to 255. Make sure that the settings for the Red and Blue remain at 0.
7. To emulate an old amber monochrome monitor, select the green box in the color palette, and then in the Selected Color Values panel use the spin button for the Red setting to move the number up to 185. Make sure that the settings for the Green remains at 128 and Blue remains at 0.
Taking a fresh look at the Windows XP Task pane
This tip applies to Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional.
If you’re like most Windows XP aficionados, chances are good that you prefer the Folders pane in Windows Explorer to the Task pane that displays by default in My Computer. As a result, you probably avoid My Computer or simply click the Folders button on the toolbar each time you open My Computer. If this is the case, you’ve probably never spent much time looking at the commands on the Task pane and may be missing many handy command shortcuts.
For example, how many times have you dug into the Control Panel to access Add/Remove Programs? If you use the Task pane in My Computer, you can simply click Add Or Remove Programs in the System Tasks section. And if you open a drive from My Computer, you will find another command that you frequently use in the Files And Folders section of the Task pane: the Make A New folder command.
When you select a folder, you can copy and move folders anywhere on your hard disk easily by selecting the Copy This Folder or Move This Folder command. When you do, a Browse dialog box will appear. This essentially serves as an alternate version of the Folders pane in Windows Explorer.
When you select a file, you can choose either the Copy This File or Move This File command and get the same Browse dialog box with a Folders pane.
Removing unused device drivers from Windows XP machines
When you install a device driver on a Windows XP machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources.
Follow these steps to view and remove these unnecessary device drivers:
1. Press Windows + Break to bring up the System Properties dialog box.
2. Select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button.
3. Click the New button below the System Variables panel.
4. In the New System Variable dialog box, type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and 1 in the Variable Value text box.
5. Click OK to return to the System Properties dialog box and then click OK again.
6. Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
7. In Device Manager, go to View | Show Hidden Devices.
8. Expand the various branches in the device tree and look for the washed out icons, which indicate unused device drivers.
9. To remove an unused device driver, right-click the icon and select Uninstall.
Using the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
Not able to remove or uninstall an application in Windows XP using either the Uninstall option or the Add/Remove Programs tool? Try using the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. As long as you installed the application using the Windows Installer, this utility will remove all the folders, files, registry keys, and entries from your system and allow you to start over with a clean slate.
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