Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn’t remember what the command line program was or the switches. Boot to System Rescue CD. mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO) cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them […]
We have Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010 and the Global Address List would not update. One reason was due to an error on our server (address in another post), but then the default times to update are 24 ours, and that’s too long. On our internal systems, we want Cached […]
The shortest interval to download user email with the Exchange Pop3 connector is 15 minutes. Too long for most people. To shorten that to 5 minutes, you have to update/add a registry value in this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Network\POP3 Connector Add Dword: “ScheduleAccelerator”=dword:00000003 Â It works by dividing the default schedule interval […]
All the logical fixes didn’t work. Reinstall, removed ide drivers, reinstalled again, no worky. I was getting an Error code 39 (and 37 on another machine), and the DVD/CD drives would not show up in Windows. “Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)” The problem seems […]
We had some computers showing a set of numbers as the computer on a mapped drive. They happened to be some numbers auto-added by Dell setup, I think. But that’s not the issue. It’s just showing the wrong thing on a mapped drive. For example: Running “net view” shows a […]
This used to drive me nuts. Go to Group Policy, set the Last Username display setting to enabled, and you still see the username at logon. What? Most sites you find when searching for this will tell you to adjust the policy (group or local). OR, they will tell you […]