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Control the desktop with local or group policies: Is your IT department always looking for new ways to decrease the number of unnecessary support calls? Then check out this tip on how you can use group and local policies to prevent inexperienced users from accessing desktop features. Want more Win2K tips and tricks? Automatically sign up for...; Tags: Active Desktop, Desktops, Jim Boyce, Microsoft Windows 2000, group policy, desktop, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Hardware; Technical articles 2005-05-16
Recover missing desktop icons in Windows 2000 Pro: When a user comes to you and says that all of her desktop icons have vanished on her Windows 2000 Professional machine, the first place you'll likely check will be group or local policy. If that isn't the culprit, you should reconfigure Active Desktop settings to get the icons to...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Active Desktop, Desktops, Jim Boyce, desktop, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Desktop Icon, Hardware; Technical articles 2005-05-09
Tech Tip: Configure Active Desktop content/Manage DNS zone transfer settings in Win2K: Learn how to configure Active Desktop content and manage DNS zone transfer settings. Windows 2000 Professional: Configure Active Desktop content When Microsoft first introduced its Active Desktop, it created a handful of sample...; Tags: Guest Contributor, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows 2000, DNS, Server, Active Desktop, Domain Names, Servers, Networking, Internet, Hardware; Technical articles 2004-08-02

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Change icons for Windows 2000 Professional desktop objects and documents: You can change the icon used for a Windows 2000 Professional shortcut by right-clicking the shortcut, choosing Properties, and then clicking Change Icon. You can browse for the file or specify the path to the file containing the icon (.ico, .dll, or .exe files). Desktop objects like...; Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Icon, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-09-10
Find a better calculator in Windows 2000 Professional: If you've ever needed to work with hexadecimal, binary, or octal numbers, degrees or radians, trig functions, logs, or other high-level math operations, you might have spent time scouring the Internet for a good calculator program, and maybe even paid a shareware fee for the privilege of using it --...; Tags: Windows 2000 Professional, tip; Blog posts 2007-07-16

Open Windows 2000 Professional network folders quickly: Getting quick access to network folders in Windows 2000 Professional is handy whether you use those folders rarely or all the time. Browsing through My Network Places each time you need to use a folder certainly works, but it can be slow and time-consuming, particularly if there are many files...; Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-10-15
Need to expand your view in Windows 2000 Pro? Use two or more monitors: Having an extra monitor is a popular way to get extra screen space, and it's easier to set up secondary displays on your Windows 2000 Professional system than you may think. Here's how to expand your horizons by adding one or more monitors to your setup. Whether you're doing...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Jim Boyce, adapter, desktop, monitor, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Operating Systems, Software; Technical articles 2006-11-06
Configure print spooling in Windows 2000 Professional: Like other operating systems, Windows 2000 Professional supports print spooling. Rather than going directly to the printer, applications can print to a Windows-managed print spool. The operating system then takes care of sending the print job to the printer. The advantage is that you don't have to wait for the...; Tags: Printer, Advantage, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Printing, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Printers, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Displaying keyboard shortcut indicators in Windows 2000 Pro: Not crazy about the mouse? Windows 2000 Professional doesn't typically allow keyboard shortcut indicators, but you can let your flying fingers use them with this simple workaround. While most people use the mouse to interact with applications and the Windows 2000 Professional interface, there are times when ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Jim Boyce, keyboard shortcut, keyboard, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals; Technical articles 2006-11-13
Customize Microsoft Management Console (MMC) consoles in Windows 2000 Professional: Most of the administrative functions you perform in Windows 2000 Professional happen through various Microsoft Management Console MMC snap-ins. A useful advantage to this modular design is the fact that you can customize the consoles to suit your needs. For example, you can add a selection of consoles to your...; Tags: Console, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Management Console, Management Console, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-08-31
Configure Windows 2000 Professional to show hidden components: If you try to remove objects from your Windows 2000 Professional system through the Add/Remove Programs object in the Control Panel, some of the installed components, such as games and other accessories, don't show up in the components list. In order to provide a common base of applications on each...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-09-17
Searching the Windows 2000 Server Global Catalog: Searching for objects (users, computers, printers, etc.) on a Windows 2000 Server network is very easy and fast. You can search for objects from the Active Directory Users And Computers console (Start | Programs | Administrative Tools) by right-clicking the domain and selecting Find or by clicking the Find Objects...; Tags: tip, Windows 2000 Server, Servers; Blog posts 2007-07-20
Display special logon messages in Windows 2000 Professional: You might have a problem prosecuting someone who hacks into your system or uses it without authorization unless you warn the intruder explicitly that access to the computer is restricted. To cover your legal bases, you can configure Windows 2000 Professional to display a special logon message...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Logon Message, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-10-01
Change drive letters in Windows 2000 Professional: You can easily change drive letters of drives in Windows 2000 Professional through the Disk Management node of the Computer Management console. You might need to do this in situations where an application is hard coded to expect a particular drive letter but you're using a different one.To change a...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Letter, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Jim Boyce; Blog posts 2007-08-27
Manage Windows Server 2003 computers remotely with a mouse click: If you administer several Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2000 machines, you should become familiar with the Remote Control Add-on for the Active Directory Users And Computers utility. Learn how to make the most of this add-on to manage your Windows Server 2003 network. Stay on top of...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Scott Lowe MCSE, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Terminal services, mouse, Active Directory Users, computer, Windows Server 2003 Tips Newsletter, Software, Hardware; Technical articles 2005-04-26
remote desktop for windows 2000 professional: i need to manage remote pc's with win2000 professional. And my pc also win2000 pro only. Is there any way that i can use remote desktop management to manage the remote pcs.Unfortunately, Windows 2000 doesn't have RDP, but...you can install many 3rd party tools, like Timbuktu, PCAnywhere, or DameWare...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, riyanaz14@..., desktop, remote-PC, remote desktop; Discussion threads 2007-06-25
Expanding items on the Start menu in Windows 2000 Pro: Close the windows! You don't have to open items in new folder windows on the Start menu in Windows 2000 Professional—you can merely expand them. Here's how to set it up. By default, certain objects on the Windows 2000 Professional Start menu open their respective...; Tags: Control Panel, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Jim Boyce, Start Menu, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Menu, Operating Systems, Software; Technical articles 2006-12-11
Customize Windows 2000 Professional IP settings through user classes: DHCP automatically assigns IP addresses and other properties such as IP address of DNS servers and routers. In some cases, you might want to retrieve special IP settings based on the type of hardware used or other criteria. For example, you might want Windows 2000 Professional notebook computers to have...; Tags: Notebooks, NETWORKING, Network technology, Jim Boyce, user class, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2007-08-06
Changing the location and name of My Documents in Windows 2000 Pro: If you aren't feeling quite as secure with the location of your My Documents folder in Windows 2000 Professional, don't worry—you can change the properties of My Documents in order to move it to a different drive or rename it altogether. Here's how to make it truly yours. My...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Jim Boyce, Windows 2000 Professional Tips Newsletter, Folder, Operating Systems, Software; Technical articles 2007-02-16
Use Dynamic DNS in Windows 2000 Professional: Windows 2000 Professional has a feature called Dynamic DNS DDNS that enables host records to be updated automatically in a Windows 2000 DNS server when the client address changes. This enables host records to remain accurate even when clients receive their address assignments through DHCP, for example.A Windows 2000 Professional...; Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, dynamic DNS, Jim Boyce, Microsoft Windows 2000, DNS, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2007-08-20

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