Archive for the 'Vista How-To's' Category

Add Administrative Tools to the Vista Start Menu

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Sometimes as a Network Administrator I get on a home users machine and have to pause for a few seconds to get to the Administrator programs that I use to sort out the day to day trouble regular users get themselves into to.
This article will put those administrative tools in Vista at your fingertips through […]

Hide All System Tray Icons Permanently

Monday, October 15th, 2007

If your like me after a few months of loading problems your system tray can get overloaded with icons. There are several ways to handle this but I am going to show you the tactical nuke option. This registry edit will permanently remove all the system tray icons.
NOTE : This post discusses changing your […]

Revert Back to CTRL+ALT+DELETE for the Vista Logon Screen

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

For the 99% of you that have been using Windows OS systems most of your lives the standard login for several versions have been to use Control+ALT+DELETE key combination to login. This quick walk through will show you how to enable CTRL+ALT+DELETE for Windows Vista.
First go to the start menu and type in netplwiz

This […]

Open UDP port 123 on Windows Firewall (Network Time Protocol)

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

On my internet time post there seems to be a lot of questions based on the firewall questions. Unfortunately I cant help every single person with every single different type of firewall. I will go through how to enable the Windows Firewall with explicit rules for inbound and outbound traffic that might help […]

Configure TCP/IP In Windows Vista Static & DHCP

Monday, March 12th, 2007

If your reading this then chances are 100% your computer is hooked up to the Internet and more then likely has an IP address assigned to it. There are two ways that a TCP/IP address is assigned to a computer either Dynamically or manually with a Static method. These are outlined below:

Dynamic: This […]