Simple File Sharing is a feature built into Windows that makes it very easy to share files and folders with other computers on your local network. It’s so simple that it’s pretty unsafe too. If you share a folder, everyone can access it, and there are no permissions and no passwords to restrict access to […]
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After installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and rebooting the computer some people get this error: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Some of the technical codes accompanying the error are: OX0000007E (0XC00007D, 0XF7C6B8EA, 0XF7C6B7F4 – 0XF7CBBYF0). By booting into Safe Mode, I noticed […]
How many times has this happened to you: you set a password on an Excel spreadsheet or workbook and then you forget about it? Or worse, the person that setup the password on the spreadsheet no longer works with you and you have a spreadsheet that you can no longer modify. What do you do? […]
Changing the TCP/IP settings via the GUI interface is very easy and simple. But what about if you want to have more fun doing it and change the IP and DNS properties using the Windows command prompt instead? If you are a Linux guru or a batch scripting wizard, this should not be complicated. If […]
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Now that we have setup Windows Server 2003 on our virtual machine, patched it with SP2, installed an anti-virus and setup DNS, it is now time to setup Active Directory using dcpromo. Setting up Active Directory using the run command dcpromo is a straightforward procedure. To begin, from your Windows 2003 Server desktop, go to […]
Yesterday I setup a testing network using VMware server. I started by installing VMware server and as I realized that VMware uses the credentials from your Windows machine to login to the console. However, if you are using any other account other than the built-in Administrator account, you will likely have problems logging in to […]
Sometimes when troubleshooting Internet connection problems, we seem to try everything: from the most basic (is the cable still connected?) to the most advanced techniques (has someone hacked my router?). However, on occasions, nothing seems to fix the problem until we check some obscure settings that no one would suspect to be causing the frustration. […]
netstat: is a utility to display TCP/IP statistics and details about TCP/IP components and connections to a host. Netstat is useful to check what ports are open on your computer, to see which network connections are currently established, to see how many packets have been handled by a network interface since it was activated, etc. […]
