Your Privacy Kind of Sucks, Fix it Up This Weekend. Since it's hard to trust what companies that get your data will do with it, the best way to maintain your privacy online is to minimize what you give them. Create accounts with pseudonyms or variants of your name (yes, even Facebook and Google+). Supply only profile information that is absolutely necessary, and lie about critical stuff like birthdates. Turn off all app- and ad-related functionality on Facebook and other sites wherever possible. Aggressively manage all forms of cookies and other persistent storage. Actively block ads and other trackers. Use Tor, VPNs and/or SSH tunels (paid for with gift cards bought with cash) to mask your IP address and location. Diversify your digital life by using services from different companies, and provide each with different profile information and email addresses. Use Webmail as the Default “mailto” Handler in Windows. Note: A guide for the impatient is at the bottom.
I was trying to configure Internet Explore to use Comcast webmail as the default handler for mailto links recently. As I’m not really a Windows user, I was appalled at the dreary selection of add-ons for IE and the inconvenience of Windows’ “Default Programs” manager. From “Default Programs” you would expect to be able to pick any application you want to be the “mailto” handler, but this is not the case. It appears the Windows/IE has the following pipeline for handling URLs when they are clicked: The text of the URL is analyzed to infer the protocol (http, ftp, etc)The registry is searched to see if a handler existsThe handler is invoked in the way specified by the “open” key in registry To jump right in, lets set up our own mailto handler. Start regedit and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\Shell\open\command This key should have a value “(default)” that specifies a command to run when a mailto URL is clicked.
How to Register an Internet Browser or Email Client With the Windows Start Menu. Note This topic applies to Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The Start menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista contains reserved slots for the default Internet (browser) and E-mail (mail) clients, together commonly known as Start Menu Internet Applications. Applications which register as Start Menu Internet Applications do so across the entire system (per-machine). In Windows Vista, the user may use the Default Programs feature to set a per-user default.
When applications register as Start Menu Internet Applications, Windows XP and Windows Vista create Internet and E-mail icons on the Start menu. Note The default installation of Windows does not register a per-user default Internet or email program, only a system-wide default. This topic discusses the following items: Registering for the Start Menu Internet Link Note This registration is deprecated as of Windows 7, which no longer provides a Start menu Internet link. How to Register as the Default Internet Client. How To Configure Trusted Sites In Internet Explorer For A Group Policy. Group policy is the magic behind Active Directory. Group policies are rules that either allow or deny – well pretty much anything on a machine. As a network administrator I get to use group policy to push out rules and regulations to my networked computers. These rules can tell the machine what applications are allowed to run, or in this case what sites are “trusted” in Internet Explorer.
Today I will show you how to add trusted sites to Internet Explorer using the group policy, without ever visiting the actual desktops. If you are new to group policy don’t worry, I will make this as easy and pain free as possible. If you do not know what the benefits of group policy are, let me give you an example. Adding Trusted Sites to Internet Explorer Using Group Policy For those of you who already know group policy I am sure you can just take a look at the screenshots below to find what you need. That will open a console that looks something like this: You have just created your policy. Hdmp files -- can I delete them? - Windows XP Support. Home - Help Desk. Lexmark drivers. Mandatory Profiles and Outlook 2003. Posted 24 February 2009 - 07:59 PM Hi Martin, What you are doing sounds like exactly what we want to do. We are looking to create a mandatory profile that is stored on a Windows 2003 server and pulled down each time a user logins.
The problem we are running into is that Outlook considers every user a new user each time they login. I have unzipped\copied the Flex_Config to a shared network folder (\\mail\backup\Flex_Config). I created a folder on the server with the same name as the local workstation in the \\Mail\Backup\Flex_Config\ProfileSettings directory and copied the Outlook2003.ini into it. I have installed Immidio local to the c:\progam files of the PC. I have successfully configured a mandatory profile that is pulled from the server each time I login and I have downloaded the Immidio Flex kit. Logon script - CSCRIPT /NOLOGO "%PROGRAMFILES%\Immidio\Flex Profiles\Flex_Framework.vbs" LOGON \\mail\backup\Flex_Config Thanks in advance.
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I generally do not have any folders in the folder specified for the mandatory profile – it just contains the ntuser.man file and nothing else. *** Update: However, on Vista, Win7 and WS08, the empty folder AppData\Roaming does need to be created. In addition, if none of the folders that by default are used for items such as “My Pictures” and “My Music” exist in the base profile, these special folders will not be available to the user who is assigned this mandatory profile. Once the ntuser.man file has been copied away, I load it as a hive in regedit and then check various elements of it; namely: Like this: Troubleshooting Slow Citrix and Terminal Server Logons. By Brian Madden What exactly is a slow logon? It depends on your environment. Some companies have logon processes that complete in a few seconds, while others take a few minutes.
Unfortunately, there are some environments in which the logon process takes several minutes; even 20-30 minutes is not unheard of. This article will take you through the steps that I follow when someone says to me, "my logons are too slow. " Understanding the Terminal Server Logon Process The logon process in Terminal Server environments is interesting, especially since it doesn’t necessarily relate to the usability and overall feel of the server in general.
From a high level, this sequence of events occurs when a user logs on to a Terminal Server: The user clicks the connect button. Of course this list is just a very high level and has been greatly simplified for presentation here. Isolate the Problem Check the pre-connection items Check the initial user environment creation Check the shell and session creation.
Application Data not redirecting with Mandatory Profile - Immidio Flex Profiles - Immidio | Forum. Appsrv.ini Parameters. Summary The Appsrv.ini file contains user settings that define application servers and other preferences. Since the 4.20.715 build of the Win32 Client, this file contains information only regarding Custom ICA Connections. For all other versions and builds of the client (for any platform), the Appsrv.ini file contains information regarding all entries in Remote Application Manager. Sample APPSRV.INI ;************************************** ;** ;** APPSRV.INI - Application Server Configuration File. ;** ;** This file contains user settings which define application ;** servers and other preferences. [WFClient] Version=2 LogFile=D:\Program Files\Citrix\ICA Client\wfclient.log LogFileWin16=wfcwin.log LogFileWin32=D:\WTSRV\Profiles\Administrator\Application Data\ICAClient\wfcwin32.log ICA records write information to the log file whenever any of the Log parameters described below are checked.
LogAppend=Off LogConnect=Off LogErrors=Off Logs ICA Client errors. Logs keyboard data. DisableSound=Off High. Product Documentation Library. Slow Computer/browser? Check Here First; It May Not Be Malware. Computer and browser slowness are not always malware related. Poor performance and other problems can be the result of disk fragmentation, disk errors, corrupt system files, unnecessary services running, not enough RAM, dirty hardware components, too many toolbars, BHOs, extensions and add-ons/plug-ins attached your browser and failure to clear browser cache.
Sometimes Add-ons cause browsers to quit unexpectedly or not perform properly especially, if it was poorly designed or was created for an earlier browser version. Incompatible browser extensions and add-ons can also impact system performance and cause compatibility issues such as application hangs (freezing). As you use your system it becomes filled with more files/programs and has a natural tendency to slow down and behave oddly so cleaning and regular maintenance is essential. Listed below are a few things you can do to improve speed and system performance. When was the last time you cleaned the inside of your computer? Quote. Excel: Automatically alternate row colors (one shaded, one white. Question: How can I set up alternating row colors in Microsoft Excel 2003/XP/2000/97? I don't want to have to change the row colors every time I insert, delete, or move a row. Answer: If you wish to set up alternating row colors in Excel, first highlight the rows that you wish to apply the formatting to.
In this example, we've selected all rows in the spreadsheet. Under the Format menu, select Conditional Formatting. When the Conditional Formatting window appears, select "Formula Is" in the drop down. Then enter the following formula: =mod(row(),2)=1 Next, we need to select the color we want to see in the alternating rows. When the Format Cells window appears, select the Patterns tab.
When you return to the Conditional Formatting window, you should see the following. Now when you return to the spreadsheet, the conditional formatting will be applied. As you can see, you now have alternating colors in the rows. What a wonderful formatting trick! Microsoft. SharePoint. Path to SharePoint. Rotating Images. Copying or moving SharePoint document libraries - Windows SharePoint Services - Microsoft Office Online.
From time to time, you might need to copy or move the contents of document libraries from one site based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to another. For example, you might want to copy a snapshot of a document library to another site to archive the information, or you might want to move documents that you own from one site to another as you change workgroups. Use the steps described in this article to move or copy a document library from your current SharePoint site (the source site) to another SharePoint site (the destination site). Copying or moving a document library from a source SharePoint site to a destination is a two-step task. First, you create a Web Folder or Network Place that points to the destination Web site.
Notes Not all of the information in a document library moves with the document. If the destination document library does not already exist, create it before you begin the following steps. How? On the top link bar of the destination site, click Create. SharePoint: Rotating Pictures, Random Pictures (updated) Yet another update! People can be such a pest… you keep asking for “captions, for buttons, for Play/Pause… Well I finally took the time to do it.
Rather than complicate this post any more, I have the update here: Here’s a what the updated one looks like (without the animation): SP 2010 Update: Will this work in SharePoint 2010? Who cares! SP 2010 has a new “Picture Library Slide Show web part” that can display random pictures every “x” seconds! Updated to support Firefox and to add an optional hyperlink. Many web sites have pictures that keep changing while the page is displayed. But… I wanted a way to do this with no C# programming, no server deployment issues and even without SharePoint Designer. How this works: Options: When you paste the JavaScript you can set a few options to control the appearance of the images: Important note: This has only been tested in Internet Explorer and Firefox 3.5.2 so far. SharePoint FAQ. Item ID in display and edit forms.
A frequent request: have the ID displayed when viewing an individual item, in display form (DispForm.aspx) and edit form (EditForm.aspx). This is for example useful when a team uses the default SharePoint ID as identifier in an Issue Tracking list. Note: the ID cannot be displayed in NewForm.aspx, simply because the ID doesn’t exist yet when you add a new item.
The answer is easy: the ID is actually already in the browser window, in the URL to be precise: Right, this is not very user friendly, so we are going to add a short script to grab the ID and display it in the page. To add a script to DispForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx, we’ll use a well known technique: - append ? - add a hidden CEWP to the page Then add one of the two scripts below in the source editor of the CEWP: To display the ID in the first row: To display the ID in the last row: Like this: Like Loading... Blain Barton's Blog. Disk2vhd. Introduction Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted). The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system: It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside. Note: Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB. Disk2vhd runs on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and higher, including x64 systems. Runs on: Excel: Automatically alternate row colors (one shaded, one white. Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog. How to redirect users’ favorites folder using VBScript. Itguruindia.com. Free practice exams for the CISSP, CISA, SSCP- cccure.org - Bringing Education to the World (Beta)
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