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- How do I... Secure Windows XP NTFS files and shares?
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Securityis all the rage. From white-hat hacker articles in Wired magazine to daily e-mailnewsletter alerts, security concerns threaten to overwhelm most ITprofessionals.Mostof the talk targets protecting an organization's resources from externalaudiences. But often there's a very real need to partition data within...
- Tags: dialog box, Erik Eckel Network+, MCP+I, MCSE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, NTFS, NTFS Permissions, permission, Properties dialog box, Security, Windows XP
- Technical articles 2007-01-22
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- The Pure and Simple Logic of Building Extraordinary Tables
- Newton, D'Alembert, Kant, Einstein, Mr. Spock&any great logician would be awed by the elegant, simple logic of the Table Properties dialog box. But one doesn't have to be a great philosopher, mathematician, or fictional alien to make this little marvel work for the user! The Table Properties dialog box boils...
- Tags: Logic, Table
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Viewing non-present devices in Windows XP's Device Manager
- Preventing Users from Internet AccessCould it be possible that if port 80 can be removed from the services file.will this prevent users from acessing the web-Will this make the operating system unstablea valuable 'tric' !Thanks to this method I was able to remove quite some drivers from defective or no...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, mfybadat@..., Environment Variables, dialog box, System Variables
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Save time with VB6's Common Dialog control
- VB6's Common Dialog control can save you a lot of programming time, as well as provide a standard Windows look to certain parts of your program. Learn how to use this control. Many Windows programs have things in common, such as dialog boxes for opening files, selecting colors,...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Windows, Peter Aitken, dialog box, Common Dialog Control, Visual Basic Tips Newsletter, Control, Development Tools, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing
- Technical articles 2005-08-02
- Are you interested in disabling the delete confirmation box in Windows Vista?
- Recently, I had enough with the constant confirmation delete dialog boxes. I do not need to be told that I am about to delete something. This is the reason, I hit the delete key. I wanted the delete confirmation box to go away. Here are the steps if you want...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Confirmation, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Steven Warren
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Re-enable icon transparency on your desktop in Windows XP
- Have you ever changed your desktop theme or just your desktop background and discovered that the text for your desktop icons is no longer transparent? Instead you now have a colored background box behind the text. If you have experienced this situation, chances are that you searched high and low...
- Tags: Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Disable Windows XP's Error Reporting notification
- When Windows XP encounters a severe error that has the potential to crash the operating system, it immediately halts the offending program and displays an error message that says the application has encountered a problem and needs to close. Then, the operating system prompts you to send an error report...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Dialog Box, Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Font Properties Extension (exe)
- If you right click on a font file in Windows its basic properties are displayed. This extension adds several new property tabs to this properties dialog box. These include information relating to font origination and copyright, the type sizes to which hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code pages...
- Tags: Font
- Software downloads 2007-03-07
- Manage user credentials in Windows XP with the Stored User Names and Passwords tool
- You can view or change any of the user credentials in your Windows XP system by saving them to your user profile. Log on to your machine and have all your IDs at the ready! Greg Shultz gives us the identifying information. When you log in to your Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Greg Shultz, Operating systems, tool, user credential, password, Stored User Names, dialog box, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Software
- Technical articles 2006-03-15
- Change the font Windows XP displays in Windows Explorer
- Windows Explorer and My Computer display the same font that Windows XP uses for icon titles on your desktop: Tahoma, 8 point. If you want to change the font or font size used in Windows Explorer, follow these steps: Access the Display Properties dialog box by right-clicking...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Explorer, Font, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Black on Black Display by Accident
- On a Win XP system, I must have accidentally selected some sort of desktop scheme in which all previously white Windows background areas are now black. Considering the text is also apparently still black, I cannot SEE anything in order to get back to the display properties to change...
- Tags: dialog box, ljohnson@..., Display Properties, black on black, black text on black background, windows, Display Properties dialog box, accident
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Problem in Vb
- Hi Everybody, I am using vb6 and have a problem with Dialog box . I have used Dialog box to save a file . But After i enter file name in Dialog box and run my Application than...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Visual Basic, vishalddd@..., Dialog Box
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- Tech Tip: Understand the processor speed report
- Has this ever happened to you? You open the System Properties dialog box and notice that the processor speed reported in the Computer section on the General tab is slower than the actual speed. If so, don't...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Processor, CPU, Processor Speed, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Technical articles 2004-03-12
- The New Modality API
- A dialog box can be either modeless or modal. A modal dialog box is one that blocks input to some other top-level windows in the application, except for any windows created with the dialog box as their owner. A modeless dialog box, on the other hand, sits off on the...
- Tags: Window, API, Dialog Box, Construction, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Tech Tip: Force the Exchange Internet Mail Service to send read receipts
- Follow these steps to force IMS to preserve all of the Internet and MAPI properties when transmitting messages. You may notice that your Outlook MAPI clients don't receive read receipts when transmitting their messages over the Exchange 5.5 Internet Mail Service IMS, even when...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, E-mail Administration Tips Newsletter, MAPI, Internet Mail Service, Dialog Box, Internet
- Technical articles 2004-07-27
- Tech Tip: Improve ZIP drive performance in Windows XP
- Follow these steps to improve ZIP drive performance. Are you using a ZIP drive that's connected to your Windows XP system via a USB port? If so, you may have noticed that it's a bit sluggish when transferring large groups of files to or...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Performance, Microsoft Windows XP, Iomega Zip Drive, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Technical articles 2004-07-29
- Tech Tip: Put Administrative Tools on the Start menu in Windows XP
- Follow these steps to put Administrative Tools on the Start menu. If you regularly perform tasks with the utilities found in the Administrative Tools folder, navigating through Control Panel's folder structure to access these tools can become a hassle. ...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Menu, Tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2004-07-29
- Tech Tip: Redirect My Documents to an alternate location in Windows XP
- Here's how to redirect My Documents to an alternate location. Have you ever wanted to change the location of the My Documents folder from the local hard drive to a network drive? In previous versions of the Windows operating system, performing this task required...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows XP, Location, Built-in Feature, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2004-07-29
- Dialog Box Assistant (exe)
- Tired of wasting your time browsing for folders and files? Dialog Box Assistant greatly speeds up access to your data. It extends the Open and Save dialog boxes with two additional buttons: one for the list of the recently used folders, another for the recent files. Even in the Microsoft...
- Tags: Dialog Box, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2005-02-22
- Tech Tip: Disable XP's splash screen
- Have you ever been in the process of troubleshooting a Windows XP startup problem and wondered what goes on behind the Windows XP splash screen while the system boots up? To find out, you can disable the splash screen by making a small ...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Boot.ini, Dialog Box, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
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