Differences between version 12 and previous revision of WindowsNotes.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:43:04 pm | by GerwinVanDeSteeg | Revert |
| Older page: | version 10 | Last edited on Sunday, August 31, 2003 8:01:35 pm | by zcat(1) | Revert |
@@ -1,16 +1,5 @@
-!Having trouble with windowsupdate.microsoft.com
-
-Apparently people who have recently visited windowsupdate.microsoft.com are being told that their system is completely up-to-date, even when they know it isn't or hasn't been updated for months.
-
-On the NZNOG mailing list, Nathan Mercer gives this advice:
-
- If you are having problems with WU can I suggest you try this URL
- https://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
-
-As near as I can tell this problem is related to aggressive caching of DNS and/or Microsoft's recent switch to Akamai. I'm not sure how common it is and I expect it will sort itself out within a week or two.
-
-
+!!Wondering what all those weird processes are?
[This page|http://www.lafn.org/webconnect/mentor/startup/PENINDEX.HTM] lists lots of common programs and tells you what they do.. so next time you see something like 'tikl.exe' running and you're wondering what that might be, here's a good place to go look it up.
!Blank Explorer windows on dual CPU servers
@@ -18,21 +7,26 @@
Got a Windows 2000 Server that displays blank Explorer windows until you refresh or right click inside them? Recently updated to 2 CPUs (and installed the Multiprocessor HAL)?
You need Patch KB:328310 (MS02-071), even if you've installed it already.
-!Can't authenticate users in a trusted domain for RRAS/VPN
+!
!Can't authenticate users in a trusted domain for RRAS/VPN
See [this thread|http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&th=7f650d952132ed5c&rnum=6], to which the ultimate outcome seemed to be that you have to add the other DC to the group "Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Users" on the DC:
net localgroup "Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access" everyone /add
See KB:240855.
-!Windows 2000 Tab Completion
+!
!Windows 2000 Tab Completion
Everyone loves TabCompletion. Enabled in the command processor in Windows XP, it was introduced in Windows 2000 but not implemented.
* Run Regedit (Start, Run, Regedit)
* Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor\
* Double click !CompletionChar and change whatever is there with '9' ([ASCII] value for Tab). Click OK.
You'll have to restart any cmd.exe's you might have open to have them notice the change.
+
+!!Remote restart/shutdown a WinNT/2K/XP machine
+
+See [SysInternal's PsTools|http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml] for the [PsShutdown|http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psshutdown.shtml] utility, that can use RPC to shut down a computer locally or remotely.
+Or for the same thing look at the apropriate ResourceKit for the OS.
