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  • How to view all drives, Disk Management under Windows

    How to view all drives, Disk Management under Windows

    The Disk Management object under Microsoft Management console can be used to Change Drive letter association, find unrecognized partitions or Mount a logical drive into a folder as in Linux. If you want to prevent access to a drive, read 2nd tip in “Points to...

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  • Microsoft Management Console – make administrative tasks easy

    Microsoft Management Console – make administrative tasks easy

    This is the start of a series of posts that will guide you through using Microsoft Management Console to manage your system. In this post most of the text has been excerpted from the MMC help file. The MMC allows you to control and manage...

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  • Process Explorer NT – the real task manager

    Process Explorer NT – the real task manager

    Process Explorer NT is the replacement for the default Task Manager in Windows from Microsoft (links are given at bottom of page). It is also available from Sysinternals which is now a part of Microsoft. Among the many tools they offer a post have been...

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  • How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

    How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

    You can disable access to select drives for a user using the Registry. Create a REG_DWORD value named NoViewOnDrive under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion PoliciesExplorer and enter its value as follows. You must select decimal first and then add the following values to disable respective drives. A –...

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  • Speeding up your boot process – Windows

    Speeding up your boot process – Windows

    Microsoft Configuration wizard is one tool you can use to improve your systems boot time. This tip utilizes the msconfig utility. 1. Go to StartĀ»Run(WIN+R) and type “msconfig” , the Microsoft System Configuration Utility will pop up. 2. Select the “STARTUP” tab. This will show...

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  • Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

    Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

    Windows saves the list of wallpapers ever used on the system in a registry Key. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion ExplorerWallpaperMRU All those Registry Binary values here are the address to the images you used as wallpapers. The last part in this binary makes no sense to me but...

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