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Newer page: version 12 Last edited on Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:43:04 pm by GerwinVanDeSteeg Revert
Older page: version 8 Last edited on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:19:02 am by CraigBox Revert
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-!Having trouble with windowsupdate.microsoft.com  
+!!Wondering what all those weird processes are?  
  
-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  
-  
-Hopefully Microsoft will get this all sorted out soon
+[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 
  
 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. 
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+!!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.