Error message when you use the Removable Storage Management snap-in on a Windows Server 2003-based computer: “The network connection does not exist”.

To resolve this problem, configure Windows Firewall settings on the remote computer to allow for remote administration. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log on to the remote computer as an administrator.
2. Open a Command Prompt window.
3. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
   netsh firewall set service REMOTEADMIN ENABLE
4. After you successfully run the command, type exit at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel:is a cross platform Perl module for creating Excel binary files.

Multiple worksheets can be added to a workbook and formatting can be applied to cells. Text, numbers, formulas, hyperlinks and images can be written to the cells.

The Excel file produced by this module is compatible with 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003.

The module will work on the majority of Windows, UNIX and Macintosh platforms. Generated files are also compatible with the Linux/UNIX spreadsheet applications Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org.

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Set a startup script in group policy with the following line:

NET localgroup Administrators /add “domain_name\domain_group”

Once your computer is joined to the domain, place the computer in the proper OU (where your startup script lies) and reboot. (Or preconfigure your ADUC with the computername in the proper OU)

More things you can do with scripts are suggested here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/maintain/optimize/startw2k.mspx

If you getting tired of everytime have to clicking Start menu, and then click on Turn Off Computer, and then still have to click on Turn Off or Restart or Log Off in order to log off, restart or shut down your computer, and feel that it’s time wasting, you can create a one-click shortcut that allows the user to shutdown or restart Windows, or go into standby or hibernate mode, with just a single click on the shortcut itself. Best of all, the shortcut can be put at any place – desktop, Quick Launch bar, or Start Menu, and can even launch the shutdown or restart process from command line or command prompt.

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Reset and reconfigure TCP/IP in Windows

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /all
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew
netsh int ip set dns name=”Interface Name” source=dhcp
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset c:\reset.txt

Replace a failed motherboard:

This scenario assumes that your existing motherboard has failed and that you cannot start the existing Windows installation on the hard disk.

To replace a failed motherboard with a new motherboard and to then reconfigure Windows to work with the new motherboard, do the following:

Turn off the computer.

Replace the existing motherboard with the new motherboard.

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The following tutorial will teach you “How to fixmbr using Windows Vista bootable disk”.

* Boot up your computer using Microsoft Windows Vista Bootable disk. (Check your BIOS setup)
* When you see the 1st Windows Vista installation screen appear, please configure your ‘language’ preferences.
* When prompted, click ‘Repair your computer’.
* Startup Repair will automatically detect a problem. When prompted, click ‘Repair and restart’, and then restart your computer from the Windows Vista bootable disk. If Startup Repair does not automatically detect a problem, continue to the next step.
* click ‘Repair Your Computer’.
* Click Command Prompt from the System Recovery Options.
* BootRec.exe provides the following command-line options:

* /FixMbr. Re-writes the master boot record (MBR) of the system partition to start Windows Vista. This won’t overwrite the existing partition table.

* /FixBoot. Writes a boot sector onto the system partition to start Windows Vista.

* /ScanOs. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and displays them to you. Oddly, this didn’t work for me, even on a test system that was starting just fine.

* /RebuildBcd. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and prompts you to pick the ones you want to add to the BCD.

* Type ‘BootRec.exe /fixmbr’ and press Enter.
* Congratulations! You’re done.

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A few people said this was a showstopper for them in recommneding Office 2007 to their customers so I figured it had to be fixed.  I nixed a huge amount of work from the right stuff blog “Office 2007 File Icons for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003“ and the script work from http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2006/01/03/508888.aspx.  The problems were: 1) no icons for files 2) file types not recognised by companyweb 3) downloads could not be opened as the file type was said to be a compressed file 4) could not edit from companyweb

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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/backupcopy-files-that-are-in-use-or-locked-in-windows/

HoboCopy:
If you’ve ever tried to copy a file that is locked by another application, you’ve probably seen an error message similar to “The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file”. So how do you copy it anyway?

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