Free Windows Help Tutorials sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org /title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ISO 8859-1"> <META name="description" Content="Hundreds of downloadable Windows help tutorials, articles and how-to guides sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org."><style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=#999999 vlink=blue link=blue> <span name = "INTRA" class="pg" style="top:0px; left:5px; width:714px; height:1010px"></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:0px; left:5px; height:1010px; width:714px' class='img'> <img src="pg0001im.png" height = "1010 width = "714" border="0"> </span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:108px; left:77px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Arial'>Windows 2000 Tips</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:224px; left:77px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>We</b></i> <i><b>present</b></i> <i><b>a</b></i> <i><b>fistful</b></i> <i><b>of</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:244px; left:77px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>tips</b></i> <i><b>to</b></i> <i><b>help</b></i> <i><b>you</b></i> <i><b>and</b></i> <i><b>your</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:221px; left:247px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>A</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:223px; left:284px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>s usual we've divided the tips into categories to help you find those most</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:236px; left:284px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>relevant to you and your users.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:265px; left:77px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>users</b></i> <i><b>get</b></i> <i><b>the</b></i> <i><b>best</b></i> <i><b>out</b></i> <i><b>of</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:262px; left:247px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>System</b></i> <i><b>Management</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:285px; left:77px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Win2K.</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:294px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Hide Administrative Tools</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:310px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The Administrative Tools folder on the Start Menu contains some potentially</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:318px; left:77px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>By Dennis Jarrett</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:322px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>dangerous system administration utilities that might be better hidden from the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:333px; left:77px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>IT Journalist</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:335px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>end user. There's a registry switch which decides whether it appears on the Start</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:348px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Menu at all. Open your registry and go to the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Soft </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:361px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>ware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. Look for a</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:373px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>value named StartMenuAdminTools (or create one if it doesn't exist), and modify</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:386px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>the data to read NO to hide the Administrative Tools folder on the Start Menu.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:399px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The default value of YES will obviously display the folder.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:420px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Improve Core System Performance</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:436px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>If you have a decent amount of RAM, try amending the registry to keep the core</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:449px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Windows 2000 system in memory rather than having it paged to disk. Open the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:462px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>registry and find this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentCon </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:475px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>trolSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:495px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Look for the DisablePagingExecutive value and change it to 1 to stop the core</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:508px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>process from being paged. The default (with paging on) is 0. The result should be</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:520px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>a noticeable improvement in system performance, but if you aren't seeing any</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:533px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>real difference it makes sense to revert to paging.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:555px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Office SR 1 And Win2000</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:571px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The SR 1 patch for Office 2000 includes a number of minor bug fixes and other</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:583px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>tweaks that are well worth installing after all, Office 2000 appeared before</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:596px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Windows 2000, and it's no surprise that the applications aren't optimised for the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:609px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>operating system. You can find a complete list of SR 1 fixes in a spreadsheet at</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:622px; left:247px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Helvetica'><b>www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2000/download/SR1Changes.xls.</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:622px; left:590px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>But there is</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:634px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>an important caveat: don't attempt to install the original SR 1 if you have Win </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:647px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>dows 2000 installed over a previous Windows NT setup some key files are not</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:660px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>registered properly in this common enough scenario. The revised SR 1a patch</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:672px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>fixes this problem. If you have applied SR 1 in the 2000 over NT circumstance,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:685px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>there's a Microsoft Office 2000/Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility available</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:698px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>on the Web from</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:698px; left:343px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Helvetica'><b>download.microsoft.com/download/office2000pro/o9reg </b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:710px; left:247px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Helvetica'><b>fix/2000/WIN98/EN US/o9regfix.exe</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:710px; left:434px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>. This will apparently undo the damage.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:732px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Start Menu Submenu For All</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:748px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Adding a submenu to the Start Menu for an individual user is easy enough, but</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:761px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>it's not immediately clear how to do the same thing for a group of users. Make</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:774px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>sure you are logged on as an administrator, then right click Start and select Open</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:786px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>All Users. Double click the Programs folder (or whichever folder you want to add</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:799px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>a submenu to) and go to File|New|Folder. Type a name for your new submenu,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:812px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>click an empty space on the desktop, and the job is done.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:834px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Automating Security Configuration</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:849px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>Windows 2000 comes with a command line utility named secedit.exe to create</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:862px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>and apply templates automatically and analyse system security. Run it directly</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:875px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>from a command line, or call it from a batch file or the task scheduler very handy</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:888px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>when you need to check or configure security templates on multiple computers</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:900px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>out of hours. Secedit has five basic functions, and in most cases the syntax is</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:950px; left:52px' class="ft5"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>Issue 128:March 2001</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:943px; left:261px' class="ft6"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>PC</b> <b>Network</b> <b>Advisor</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:950px; left:612px' class="ft5"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>File: E1724.1</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:962px; left:52px' class="ft5"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>page 3</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:962px; left:499px' class="ft5"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>End User Support:Windows NT/2000</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:967px; left:284px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Helvetica'><b>www.pcnetworkadvisor.com</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" class='nav' style='left: 357px; top: 1010px'><pre><< < GO <a href='page0002.htm'>></a> <a href='page0002.htm'>>></a></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1050px; left:50px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial">New!</font><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial Narrow"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">The best sites for quality <a href="http://www.inkjet-printer-cartridges.org">inkjet printer cartridges</a> and the best sites for <a href="http://www.cheap-inkjet-cartridges.com">cheap inkjet cartridges</a></font></b></pre></span></body> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1100px; left:300px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial"><a href="../index.html">Windows Help Desk Home</a> </font></b></pre></span></body></html>