This post shows how to change MAC Address in Windows by edit Windows Registry. Before you read this post, I suggest you to read Change MAC Address in Windows, Part I: Introduction first. Also, if you haven’t try to change MAC Address by using feature on a NIC, I recommend to try it before on Part II: Feature on NIC.
Before you read this post, I suggest you to read Change MAC Address in Windows, Part I: Introduction first.
When you’ve installed Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) on a computer and launch it for the first time, it’ll try to access the Internet to Microsoft website for configure IE7. If you have an Internet connection, you simply follow a step-by-step on IE 7 and you’re done. But sometimes the configuration doesn’t success so your home page doesn’t open. Instead, it displays a blank page every time.
MAC Address (Media Access Control) or physical address is a unique address assigned to NICs (Network Interface Card) by the manufacturer for identification. Even though MAC Address is a unique address which means that there shouldn’t be any MAC Address duplication occur in the world. But do you know that you can still change the MAC Address of NICs which is called MAC spoofing. It is a technique of hacking which you change the MAC Address to bypass access control lists on firewalls or routers.
On Windows XP Professional, the security tab in folder properties is hidden. So you can’t configure permission on a certain folder. Don’t worry, this is not effect from virus or malicious things. It is by design of Microsoft to hide the security tab as a default setting. This is the example of a folder properties on Windows that is in a work group. You’ll see that there is no Security tab in the figure below.
Note: On Windows XP which is in an domain will not affected this problem.
This article applied to Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000/Me/98/95.
When you are installing Windows, you have a chance to input user information which are owner name and company name. After that, Windows doesn’t allow you change these information anymore (in an convenient way). You can see these information in System Properties. It resides in Registered to section.
Suppose that you want to attach a file on an e-mail message but the file is too large for sending through your mail server. Or you want to copy a file to USB drive but the file size is exceed the limit of your USB drive can hold.
Remote Desktop Connection is one useful tool of Windows which allows you to manage remote servers so you don’t have to go to in front of each server and do your tasks. This feature saves lot of time and effort of IT staff. But on the Internet, the firewall or security devices may block this kind of traffic (TCP port 3389). So it would be great if we can remote desktop through web (HTTP) which is a common protocol. This comes to Remote Desktop Web Connection.
Note: This article is works on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as terminal servers.
When you want to access a network file or folder, you have to type the UNC path (\servershare_name) every time that you want to access. If you using this network share regularly, you would want to map the path to one of your drive letter so that you can access it easily.
Have you ever try to delete or move a file and Windows have just told you that the file can’t be deleted or moved because it is in used even you’re pretty sure that currently you aren’t using that file?
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