http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/subject/winos The Funky Knowledge Base at songhaysystem.com. The subject of this channel is Windows OS. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:36:30 GMT http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072080/subject/winos Article Excerpt: browser.exe is a "Backdoor.Pahador" seen here: ...yesterday, my anti virus detected a pahador.f trojan in C:\Windows\Browser.exe I quarantined it immediately... It records key strokes and sends information back to a remote server Info here: Type: Troj… Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:36:30 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072081/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Content is added to this directory in response to installing applications, enabling packages in the add-remove-programs UI, and installing Windows Out-of-Band releases. Content is removed from this directory as a result of uninstall + scavenging - a topic… Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:38:09 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072076/subject/winos Article Excerpt: If you have ever developed on SharePoint, there's gotta be at least once when you came across the superbly detailed error message: “Unknown error” …and its likes. That's when we have to start ploughing through the humungous amount of log entries i… Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:14:02 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072060/subject/winos Article Excerpt: After you install security update 896358 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you may experience one or both of the following symptoms after you click a link to an HTML Help .chm file in Internet Explorer: * Topics in the .chm file cann… Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:06:57 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072059/subject/winos Article Excerpt: IISRESET.EXE (c) Microsoft Corp. 1998-1999 Usage: iisreset [computername] /RESTART Stop and then restart all Internet services. /START Start all Internet services. /STOP Stop all Internet services. /REBOOT … Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:41:59 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072049/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2 requires WSS. This may seem obvious or a future version for Visual Studio will have ‘disconnected’ Setup option. These were installed: * Windows SharePoint Services 3.0… Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:29:24 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072044/subject/winos Article Excerpt: From Brad Linder: “Windows Search gives you far more control over which files and folders you want to index. …Windows Search does an excellent job of sorting search results into distinct categories. …Google Desktop, on the other hand just sort of sp… Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:19:52 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072045/subject/winos Article Excerpt: “The creation of 8.3 filenames and directories for all long filenames and directories on NTFS partitions may decrease directory enumeration performance.” [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121007] Find the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation entry here: … Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:24:17 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071984/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Switching from desktop to desktop in Dexpot 1.4 leaves abandoned border artifacts on the screen. This comes from its lack of support for “shadow effects” in Windows XP. To resolve this annoyance, check off “Show shadows under menus” Display Proper… Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:44:21 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071977/subject/winos Article Excerpt: “There are two options to change a hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS. You can use the Convert.exe command from a DOS prompt in Windows or you can delete the existing FAT32 partition or volume and create a new NTFS partition in Disk Management.” “Wester… Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:50:51 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071974/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Method 1 1. Restart your computer. 2. While your computer restarts, press and hold the CTRL key until the Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed. NOTE: If you are using the EZDrive tool, press F8 instead of CTRL. 3. Select the Safe Mode menu option from t… Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:11:31 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071947/subject/winos Article Excerpt: From MSKB article “How to enable and to configure Remote Desktop for Administration in Windows Server 2003” here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814590 “You do not have to have a Terminal Server Client Access License to use Remote Desktop for… Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:11:40 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071933/subject/winos Article Excerpt: [from exmsft:] I contacted Microsoft Support, and after working my way up the escallation tree, I got to a tech with some knowledge. Apparently this problem is related to the Shell Icon size. If you are using large icons in your shell and install IE 7, … Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:59:22 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071921/subject/winos Article Excerpt: DVD playback in Windows can become too slow and appear stuttering or jerky when the transfer mode of the Device for the appropriate IDE Channel (usually the secondary IDE Channel) is in the wrong mode (usually PIO mode). The fix is to uninstall the drive… Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:51:43 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071887/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Yes, you can modify NTFS permissions from the command line. Use the Microsoft tool, XCACLS.EXE. For more information, see “HOW TO: Use Xcacls.exe to modify NTFS permissions” here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754/ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:57:11 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071885/subject/winos Article Excerpt: PS C:\> Set-Location HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ADs\Providers PS HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ADs\Providers> Get-ChildItem | format-list Hive: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micros oft\ADs\Providers Name : IIS ValueCou… Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:11:11 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071886/subject/winos Article Excerpt: PS C:\> $key = [Microsoft.Win32.Registry]::LocalMachine PS C:\> $key.GetSubKeyNames() HARDWARE SAM SECURITY SOFTWARE SYSTEM PS C:\> $subKey = $key.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\ADs\\Provide rs") PS C:\> $subKey.GetSubKeyNames() IIS LDAP NDS NWCOMPAT… Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:01:31 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071869/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The flippant summary of the differences between Windows Server 2003 Standard and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise is that the Enterprise versions have various forms of clustering support while the Standard Edition does not. For the official overview, see t… Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:22:27 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071850/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Use the System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe) to stop Adobe Photo Downloader (apdproxy.exe) from loading. Uncheck the box next to apdproxy.exe under Startup > Startup Item. This will cause Windows to switch into Selective Startup mode and the next t… Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:58:36 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071846/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Run the Group Policy snap-in (gpedit.msc). Under Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connections > Windows Firewall set "Protect all network connections" to Not Configured. Do this for Domain Profi… Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:35:55 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071825/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Under Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions > Programs and Services check File and Printer Sharing. This allows WINS-capable clients to resolve the IP address from the NETBIOS name. Next choose Windows Firewall > Exceptions > Add Port... and ente… Mon, 07 May 2007 02:44:00 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071816/subject/winos Article Excerpt: These notes are a "remixed" version of "OpenSSH for Windows 2003 Server" by Stephen Pillinger of the University of Birmingham here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/%7Esmp/projects/ssh-windows/ You should look at this reference for issues related to host-ba… Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:12:14 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071782/subject/winos Article Excerpt: To disable System Beep sounds in Windows, the "safe" method is to try Tweak UI. Look under General > Settings. Uncheck the Beep on errors box. As of this writing, Tweak UI is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/ powe… Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:06:06 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071815/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Internet Information Server in Windows Server 2003 will throw 404 errors when ASP.NET 2.0 is not installed but the server is configured for ASP.NET 2.x under Properties > ASP.NET > ASP.NET version in the IIS management console (MMC). Setting this value to… Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:22:45 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071777/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Get-Command Get-Help Get-PSDrive -? Get-Members Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:01:29 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071731/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Windows Update/Microsoft Update Error 0x8002801D indicates a "library not registered" error. It follows that the this command should fix the problem: regsvr32 msxml3.dll Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:08:35 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071730/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Internet Explorer 6.x in Windows XP may not print or show the Print Preview dialog. Instead an "Internet Explorer Script Error" message is shown, indicating that a "library" (*.dll) is not registered. According to Nick at askatechguy.com, this library is… Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:03:38 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071685/subject/winos Article Excerpt: "How to Change Passwords in Windows Me/98/95" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257485&sd=RMVP "NOTE: If you cancel the network logon, the Change Passwords tab may not be available. You must log on so the Change Passwords tab will be available." Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:39:12 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071666/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The System event log can show this W32Time error: "The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the sources are currently accessible." In the "good old" days of the innocent Internet you could ru… Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:05:25 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071626/subject/winos Article Excerpt: "Why doesn't DirectX acceleration work in Windows Server 2003?" This question comes from the Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 here: http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm "There are two correct answers for this question... Offic… Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:35:46 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071617/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The assumption here is that, during Microsoft's reactionary quest to address security flaws, someone broke EVENTLOG.DLL. I suspect that my event logs began to disappear after an automatic update from Windows Update. Some guy named Matt posted this on bmon… Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:36:59 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071608/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Windows Update produced the following error: Windows Update has encountered an error. This may be due to a discrepancy in your computer's time setting. To check your date and time setting: 1. On the taskbar, double-click the tim… Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:30:39 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071453/subject/winos Article Excerpt: @ECHO OFF COLOR 4F ECHO ************************************************************** ECHO * This Command Script sets Default NTFS Permissions * ECHO * for the Ideal Windows 2000 Member Server. * ECHO * For more details, please … Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:29:06 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071531/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The following shortcut keys are available from a Terminal Services Client: CTRL+ALT+END opens the Windows Security dialog box. ALT+PAGE UP switches between programs from left to right. ALT+PAGE DOWN switches between programs from right to left. ALT+I… Sat, 23 Aug 2003 03:01:59 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071526/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Security, security, security. This is what Windows Server 2003 is all about. A 404 error is thrown for those administrators running ASP pages when the server role is Application Server and ASP.NET is enabled. This error is by design. To resolve this prob… Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:54:09 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071376/subject/winos Article Excerpt: I am sure that there are plenty of differences between Windows 98 and 95. What is mentioned here (in passing) focuses on the things that really strike me as new and different from a system maintenance perspective. MSConfig (System Configuation Utility) p… Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:46:34 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/129/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Direct cable connection is very complicated. It involves only two Control Panel Applets (Network and perhaps Passwords) but has several variables to be dealt with. This is the sketch of how to get it to work based on the assumption that we have two comput… Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:46:29 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-1259760088/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Selected Keyboard Commands: Shift-F10: Right-mouse-click selected item Ctrl-Esc: Display Start menu Alt-[underlined letter]: Select menu command Alt-Esc: Switch to Taskbar's "next" open window Alt-Tab: Switch among open windows (hold Alt and continue… Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:46:24 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/86/subject/winos Article Excerpt: In REGEDIT.EXE: Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture\DefaultIcon. Double-click on default in the left pane. Note the existing value which should be C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cool.dll,41. Replace this value with '%1' (a percent sign and arabic numeral 1) Re… Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:46:18 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/102762646/subject/winos Article Excerpt: You can make this change by editing the Registry. (As always, be sure to back up your Registry files--system.dat and user.dat--first.) To open the Registry Editor, click the Start button, select Run, type regedit and click OK. Navigate your way to … Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:46:09 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/130/subject/winos Article Excerpt: As the mouse pointer moves among the menus and submenus under the Start Menu in the Explorer shell, submenus automatically cascade after a set amount of time the mouse arrow rests at a location with a solid-black right-pointing arrow. This time is set i… Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:45:58 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/79/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Certain CD-ROM Multimedia applications built before Windows 95 will not recognize the 32-bit version of QuickTime. To remedy this a separate 16 bit version must be installed. Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:45:52 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071518/subject/winos Article Excerpt: This problem is NOT solved by making the user trying to log in an Administrator of the server! This problem is most likely solved by setting permissions in the Terminal Services Configuration MMC (and NOT the Local Security Policy MMC). For more details … Thu, 29 May 2003 22:48:05 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071508/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The following taken from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online: http://www.mcpmag.com/Features/article.asp?EditorialsID=187 Problem: When attempting to log on to a Win2K member server or Win2K Pro workstation using a domain account, the f… Wed, 12 Feb 2003 04:25:02 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071488/subject/winos Article Excerpt: By default only account operators, administrators, backup operators, print operators, server operators, Internet guest account, and Terminal Services user account are assigned the right to log on locally to a Windows-based domain controller. Microsoft de… Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:27:23 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071486/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The following message may require a look at the Registry: 'ipconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Look at these three keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM \CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL… Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:46:42 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071445/subject/winos Article Excerpt: I saved a few hundred dollars by avoiding purchasing additional services from my broadband provider by connecting multiple computers to one Internet connection. With the purchase and installation of an additional NIC, my Windows 2000 server was ready to b… Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:43:15 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071426/subject/winos Article Excerpt: I lost my SYSTEM hive and Windows 2000 would not start. I was shocked but comfortably numb. At least it wasn't a hard disk failure. I assumed the worst-case scenario would be something like what I recorded back in my halcyon days of Windows NT: http:… Fri, 07 Dec 2001 05:38:44 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071413/subject/winos Article Excerpt: I hope to avoid knowing anything about this tool thanks (in advance) to the new .NET regime. However as of this writing I may need: "DCOMCNFG" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vcmfc98/html/_atl_dcomcnfg.asp "Setting Processwide Securi… Fri, 07 Sep 2001 03:15:35 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071407/subject/winos Article Excerpt: When you open the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) for Internet Information Server 4.x, the following error message appears: Error connecting to [Computer Name]: The RPC server is unavailable. where [Computer Name] is the name of a computer but th… Sat, 09 Jun 2001 01:44:33 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071390/subject/winos Article Excerpt: @ECHO OFF net stop iisadmin /y PAUSE Sun, 13 May 2001 15:47:51 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071389/subject/winos Article Excerpt: @ECHO OFF net start w3svc REM net start msftpsvc PAUSE Sun, 13 May 2001 15:47:35 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071388/subject/winos Article Excerpt: @ECHO OFF ECHO Deleting old backup... RD /S /Q "%HomeDrive%\%HomePath%\~data\~Application Data Backup" RD /S /Q "%HomeDrive%\%HomePath%\~data\~Favorites Backup" RD /S /Q "%HomeDrive%\%HomePath%\~data\~Local Settings Backup" RD /S /Q "%HomeDrive%\%HomePath… Sun, 13 May 2001 15:42:28 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071377/subject/winos Article Excerpt: When the %SystemDrive% (commonly drive C:) starts to fill up "by attrition" the culprit is usually two things: temporary Internet files and files left in the C:\TEMP directory. Temporary Internet files are not always removed from the General > Temporary … Sun, 18 Feb 2001 06:28:12 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071335/subject/winos Article Excerpt: 'I wrote this script (Go2FTP.scr) for an entertainment company. 'This is a quick hack since they were not concerned about high security. Dim objShell Dim objFileSys Dim objOutStream Dim strCnn Dim strWrite Dim cnnADO Dim rsADO strCnn = "Provider=SQL… Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:47:45 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071352/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The following message may indicate that Plug and Play is not installed or disabled in Windows NT: Windows NT did not find any modems attached to your computer. Since many "techies" consider the Windows 9.x series a "bunch of toys" and its Plug and P… Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:26:50 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/908257690/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Create a new folder in your Start Menu. To be able to do this you can run a command like: C:\WINNT\Profiles\rasx\Start Menu if your system root directory is C:\WINNT and your user name is "rasx." Create a new folder inside the Start Menu folder. Cop… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:33:52 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/893823429/subject/winos Article Excerpt: WINNT.BMP and WINNT256.BMP are located in the folder assigned to %SystemRoot%. To change the default startup logo, change these files. The pixel dimensions of the file is limited by the resolution of the display. To see any changes to the startup logo, r… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:28:40 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/842192290/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Enter the command odbcad32 in the CMD console or Run dialog to run ODBCAD32.EXE in the %SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32 directory. This is especially useful if the current user logged in to their desktop does not have rights to the Control Panel applets. Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:29:50 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/891832920/subject/winos Article Excerpt: In System Properties, under the Performance tab, select Virtual Memory to make sure that Virtual Memory > Initial Size is set to a value that is equal to the amount of physical RAM plus 12 MB. Set Virtual Memory > Maximum Size to a value equal to or great… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:32:13 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-852844377/subject/winos Article Excerpt: These are the files needed for a boot floppy: Boot.ini Ntdetect.com Bootsect.dos (for dual startup installations) NTLDR Ntbootdd.sys (if it's in the root folder, copy it) Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:30:24 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/925045597/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The Microsoft Corporation has written an interesting overview of the security features of Windows NT. As of this writing, this article is available at the following URI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ library/backgrnd/html/msdn_secinst.htm The t… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:31:55 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/1759519097/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The general form for entering Explorer commands from the console is Explorer [/n][/e][,/root,<path or UNC>][[,/select],<object>] where: /n opens Explorer with object view only; /e opens Explorer with tree view and object view at the current fold… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:31:23 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/1680683821/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Have three blank, formatted floppy disks ready. Put your installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. Now, click Start, Run. Assuming your CD-ROM drive is D, type in D:\i386\winnt32 /ox and press Enter. Simply follow the dialog boxes to create the setup… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:26:24 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2064055916/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Windows bitmap files can be used as icons. When the Change Icon... button is pressed from a Shortcut dialog, keep in mind that it is possible to Browse... for *.BMP files when showing all files in the Browse dialog. It can only help to choose BMP files t… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:25:51 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/912851386/subject/winos Article Excerpt: Windows NT may fail to start correctly because of an errant Registry setting. For example, disabling the Service that handles the keyboard is cruel and unusual punishment (trust me on this). In most of these software-related boot failures, disabled (or en… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:29:34 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-710988297/subject/winos Article Excerpt: By editing the Registry, you can make an X-Window-like Mouse Pointer that will get the focus of any window under its "pointing pixel." The following Registry Key must be Merged from a properly formatted *.REG file: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Control … Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:28:21 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/907727558/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The following Registry Key must be Merged from a properly formatted *.REG file: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoNetHood"=dword:00000001 Note that NoNetHood is of type DWORD. Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:27:59 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/912818245/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The path to the Windows NT 4.0 Setup folder usually contains the letter of the CD-ROMdrive and "I386" for "Wintel" machines. So, for example, if drive D: is the CD-ROM drive, then D:\I386 would be the Setup path. To change the default location of the set… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:27:37 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/912850369/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The following Registry Keys must be Merged from a properly formatted *.REG file: HKEY_USERS \.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard "InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2" HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Control Panel\Keyboard "Initi… Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:29:24 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/906445054/subject/winos Article Excerpt: The "set" command displays current environment settings. The use of environment variables is yet another way to make this "New Technology" OS more Unix-like. Windows NT Help has more information about the "set" command and environment variables. Sat, 05 Dec 1998 17:25:25 GMT Bryan Wilhite