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IE7 Keyboard shortcuts

Reinstall IE6

Uninstall IE7

Addressbar missing in IE

create date-based folder names

Automatic Updates grayed

WindowsUpdate Userdata persistence >> Foutcode 0x800A0046

Scheduled Restart

NT Password restore

Old installed devices are remembered

office stickynotes

Speed up Windows XP's defrag operations

Clear the Windows XP Run command's most recently used list

Schedule a restart operation with Windows XP's Shutdown utility

Disable Windows Messenger on a Windows XP machine

Troubleshoot Windows XP with the Driverquery command

Map drive letters to local folders in Windows XP

Alter Windows XP's most frequently used programs list

Instantly create Restore Points in Windows XP

Create restore point from command prompt

Specify Disk Cleanup configuration settings in Windows XP

Get system info from Windows XP's Help and Support Center

Speed up Windows XP's defrag operations

Clear the Windows XP Run command's most recently used list

Schedule a restart operation with Windows XP's Shutdown utility

Disable Windows Messenger on a Windows XP machine

Troubleshoot Windows XP with the Driverquery command

Map drive letters to local folders in Windows XP

Alter Windows XP's most frequently used programs list

Instantly create Restore Points in Windows XP

Specify Disk Cleanup configuration settings in Windows XP

Get system info from Windows XP's Help and Support Center

Logon Windows XP with lost password

Import the results of Windows XP's Tree command into Word

Open explorer to display Disk Drives

100 ways to make your systems more secure

How to change the Volume Licensing product key on a computer that is running Windows XP SP1 and later versions of Windows XP

IE7

IE7 Keyboard shortcuts

Mouse shortcuts

Reinstall IE6

RUN Menu:

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %windir%\Inf\ie.inf

PS:space between DefaultInstall and 132

Uninstall IE7

If your installation of IE7 was successful and uneventful, then uninstalling it is relatively simple process. The following steps will uninstall IE7 and restore IE 6.

• 1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

  2. Click Add or Remove Programs.

  3. Scroll down to Windows Internet Explorer 7, click it, and then click Change/Remove.

If for some reason Windows Internet Explorer 7 does not appear in the Add or Remove Programs, you should:

• 1. Open Windows Explorer

  2. Click Tools | Folder Options

  3. Click the View tab

  4. Make sure the radio button next to Show hidden files and folders is on

  5. Click OK

  6. Click Start, and then click Run

  7. Type: %windir%\ie7\spuninst\spuninst.exe into the text box and click Enter

Specified user account

In some cases, you may get an error message when you try to uninstall IE7 that says you cannot uninstall from a specified user account. To get around this check you will have to edit the Windows Registry.

Warning: Editing the Windows Registry incorrectly can cause the Windows operating system to stop functioning completely. This is a advanced operation and you are encouraged to back up the Windows Registry before you attempt any editing of the file. You have been warned.

Bypass the user account check with this Windows Registry edit:

• 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.

  3. Right-click the Internet Explorer key, click New, and then click DWORD value.

  4. Type InstalledByUser as the name, and then press ENTER to finish creating the new registry value.

  5. Try to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 again.

More help

If you find yourself still needing help uninstalling Internet Explorer 7, check out the IE7 release notes found on the Microsoft MSDN Web site.

Addressbar missing in IE

Close Internet Explorer-windows; via Start / Run :

regsvr32 /i browseui.dll.

Restart pc check if adressbar is back.

If not, close Internet Explorer-windows

Start / Run: Regedit. Navigate to key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer click right on Toolbar and choose delete.

All toolbar settings are deleted. Open Internet Explorer and choose in menu View / Toolbars the toolbars you want to see.

create date-based folder names

create the special command on the context menu:

Launch Windows Explorer and select Tools | Folder Options.

In the Folder Options dialog box, select the File Types tab.

In the Registered File Types list, select Folder, and click the Advanced button.

In the Edit File Type dialog box, click the New button.

In the New Action dialog box, type

New Date-Based Folder

in the Action text box and

CMD.EXE /C MD "%1\%%DATE%%"

in the Application Used To Perform Action text box.

Click OK twice. Click Close to close the three dialog boxes.

Windows Update problems/errors

°Automatic Updates grayed

When you open the Automatic Updates tab in My Computer Property sheet, or from Control Panel, all of the Automatic Updates configuration options may be grayed out. This happens due to any of the following reasons:

• 1. You're not logged on as Administrator (or equivalent)

  2. Automatic Updates Policy is enabled

  3. Automatic Updates (and Windows Update) access is blocked via Group Policy

To make the Automatic Updates options configurable by the user (only for stand-alone systems), remove the restrictions 2 & 3 above.

• • Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT.EXE

  • Navigate to this location:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows \ WindowsUpdate \ AU

  • In the right-pane, delete the two values AUOptions and NoAutoUpdate

  • Navigate to this location:HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ WindowsUpdate

  • In the right-pane, delete the value DisableWindowsUpdateAccess

Using the Group Policy Editor - for Windows XP Professional

• • Click Start, Run and type gpedit.msc

  • Navigate to the following location:

  • => Computer Configuration

  • ==> Administrative Templates

  • ===> Windows Components

  • ====> Windows Update

  • In the right-pane, double-click Configure Automatic Updates and set it to Not Configured

  • Then, navigate to this location:

  • => User Configuration

  • ==> Administrative Templates

  • ===> Windows Components

  • ====> Windows Update

  • In the right-pane, set Remove access to all Windows Update features to Not Configured

More Information

Configure Automatic Updates corresponds to AUOptions registry value. More information on this Policy can be obtained from here

Remove access to all Windows Update features corresponds to DisableWindowsUpdateAccess registry value. Also, when this Policy is enabled, the following errors are shown when accessing the Windows Update, depending upon the way you access the Windows Update page.

Network policy settings prevent you from using Windows Update to download and install updates on your computer. If you believe you have received this message in error, please check with your system administrator.

or

Error Windows Update was disabled by your system administrator.

More information on this policy can be obtained here.

°WindowsUpdate

Userdata persistence

Foutcode 0x800A0046

Methode 4 done it for me :-)

Methode 1: Verwijder de gebruikersaccount die problemen ondervindt met de accountgroep Gasten of Beperkt

Methode 2: Stel de security descriptor in

Methode 3: Voeg de lokale Administrator- en Service-account toe aan het beleid Impersonate a client after authentication

Methode 4: Configureer de RPC-service (Remote Procedure Call) voor aanmelding als de lokale systeemaccount

Scheduled Restart

• 1. Go to Control Panel | Scheduled Tasks.

  2. Double-click Add Scheduled Task to launch the Scheduled Task Wizard.

  3. Click Next and then click the Browse button.

  4. Access the Windows\System32 folder, select Shutdown.exe, and click Open.

  5. Follow the wizard through the next two screens to give the task a name and choose a schedule.

  6. Enter your user account name and password and click Next.

  7. Select the Open Advanced Properties check box and click Finish.

  8. In the task's Properties dialog box, add the /r parameter to the end of the command line in the Run text box and click OK. (Be sure to include a space between the last character in the command name and the first character in the parameter list.)

  9. Enter your user account name and password and click OK.

NT Password restore

Administrator-account in Windows XP Home Edition, blanco. Enter and you can log in. Changing it can only in SAFE MODE. When you have problems with password, then the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor from Peter Nohrdal can help you. Ypu can download the boot-cd via

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd and startup the pc with it. The Linux-kernel on the cd can edit the parts of Windows where the passwords are stored. It's possible to give direct an new password but its better when you don't do it . Choose for a blanco password and after rebooting in windows change then the password.

WGA

The Windows Genuine Advantage procedure

The first step that has undertaken Microsoft against illegal installations, is uses of a monitoring of the legitimacy of of software. Before up-dates can download you of Windows update-website or Microsoft update-website (for all microsoft products) it is regularly checked if the licentie is used, however, legitimately. Microsoft calls this procedure Windows Genuine Advan-tage, where is used the term crazily enough validate (probably to give that for you there you to the feeling an added value is).

TIP: WGA are considered by some as spyware. With the tool (download RemoveWGA: www.firewallleaktester.com/removewga.htm) you can eliminate this control. For downloading some updates you need moreover WGA, however.

Old installed devices are remembered

Make the following bat example DeviceManagemant.bat:

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set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

devmgmt.msc

exit

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The option see all devices must be set visible

you can delete the storage device wich causes problems

office stickynotes

Make shortcut to Outlook.exe

Right click and chose Properties and append: /c ipm.stickynote

normaly you will see somthing like:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\office[10/11]\

OUTLOOK.EXE /c ipm.stickynote

When you click the link there will be a yellow post-it en the content will be placed in outlook under Notities

Speed up Windows XP's defrag operations

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Troubleshoot Windows XP with the Driverquery command

Note: This tip applies only to Windows XP Professional.

When you're troubleshooting a suspected device driver problem, you can find detailed information about specific drivers being used in a Windows XP system by going to Device Manager, selecting the device from the list, and drilling down to the device's properties sheet. Although this technique is fine when you're looking for information on one specific device driver, it's not very efficient when you're interested in information about a number of device drivers—it's just too time consuming.

To ease the task of gathering information on a number of device drivers, you can use a tool called Driver Query (Driverquery.exe). When you run this tool, it provides you with a detailed list of all the device drivers installed on a local system or on any system on a network—and using it is easy. Here's how:

1. Open a Command Prompt window.

2. Type

Driverquery on the command line.

The results are displayed in a table format in the Command Prompt window. If you want to perform more detailed analysis, you can direct Driver Query to save the results in a CSV file so you can open them in a spreadsheet application, such as Excel. To do so, type the following on the command line:

Driverquery /v /fo csv > drivers.csv

Map drive letters to local folders in Windows XP

If you regularly work with files stored in shared folders on a Windows XP network, chances are that you've used Windows' Map Network Drive command to map a drive letter to that folder. Wouldn't it be nice if you could map a drive letter to a nested folder on your hard disk? Then, you could access nested subfolders just as easily as you can access shared folders on the network.

Fortunately, you can do just that. Unbeknownst to most Windows users, an old DOS command called Subst is designed to associate a drive letter with any local folder—and it's still a viable tool in Windows XP. Here's how to use the Subst command:

1. Open a Command Prompt window.

2. Type the following command and press [Enter]:

subst x: C:\{pathname}\foldername}

where

x: is any available drive letter and {pathname}\foldername} is the complete path to your selected folder. For example:

Subst K: C:\Downloads\Windows\Drivers

Now, instead of typing the full path, you can reach the Drivers folder by accessing drive K: in Windows Explorer.

Alter Windows XP's most frequently used programs list

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Instantly create Restore Points in Windows XP

Note:

To use this script, you must have Administrator privileges.

Windows XP's System Restore utility continuously monitors your system looking for changes to the system files and certain application files. This utility will automatically create a Restore Point if it senses a change.

If you want to manually create a Restore Point, you can launch the System Restore utility by clicking Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | System Restore and then following the steps in the wizard. You can simplify the launching process by copying the System Restore shortcut to your desktop, but you still have to walk through the wizard.

However, there's a great method for creating a Restore Point with just the click of your mouse. All you have to do is create a simple two-line VBScript file that uses the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) moniker to access the SystemRestore class and create a Restore Point. Here's how:

1. Launch Notepad.

2. Type these two lines:

Set IRP = getobject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore")

MYRP = IRP.createrestorepoint ("My Restore Point", 0, 100)

3. Save the file as InstantRestorePoint.vbs.

Now, when you're ready to create an instant Restore Point, all you have to do is launch the script. System Restore will run in the background without displaying its interface, and it will create a restore point called My Restore Point.

Create Restore point from Command prompt

Restart computer en press F8

Save mode with command propt option

Type following at command prompt:

C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

Specify Disk Cleanup configuration settings in Windows XP

Get system info from Windows XP's Help and Support Center

You should now be able to log on to Windows with the user account and the new password. The following sections provide step-by-step instructions to reset the password for a typical user account in Safe Mode by using the Administrator (or Computer Administrator account.

Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional in a workgroup

To log on as Administrator and reset the password, follow these steps:

Windows XP Professional in a domain

To log on as Administrator to reset the password, follow these steps:

Import the results of Windows XP's Tree command into Word

Using the Tree command to research your folders on your Windows XP hard disk can give you results fast—too fast for your eye to catch. Here's how to use Word to create a Tree you can read in detail and at your own pace.

To find out how many folders there are on your Windows XP hard disk, you can open a Command Prompt and use the Tree command. You'll get a very nice looking graphical tree structure showing all the folders on your hard disk. The only problem is that the display will scroll by your screen so fast and exceed the buffer size, so you'll never be able to see it.

Instead, try using the old MS-DOS pipe to funnel the output of the Tree command to an RTF (Rich Text Format) file. You can then import that RTF file into a specially formatted Word document and have the same graphical tree structure showing all the folders on your hard disk in a document. Here's how:

• 1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. Use the CD \ command to access the root folder.

  3. Type Tree > Tree.rtf

  4. Close the Command Prompt window.

  5. Launch Word and open a new document.

  6. Go to File | Page Setup.

  7. In the Page Setup dialog box, choose the Landscape Orientation, and set the left and right margins to 0.

  8. Click OK and click the Ignore button in the margins warning dialog box.

  9. Go to Insert | File.

  10. In the Insert File dialog box, locate the Tree.rtf file and click the Insert button.

  11. In the File Conversion dialog box, select the MS-DOS option and click OK.

You can save the document and then scroll through the graphical tree structure showing all the folders on your hard disk.

Note: This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional.

# Open explorer to display Disk Drives

on your desktop make a link with:

C:\Windows\Explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\

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How to change the Volume Licensing product key on a computer that is running Windows XP SP1 and later versions of Windows XP

Video: Change the Windows XP product key

View products that this article applies to.

You can create a batch file or a cmd file that uses either of the following sample scripts, together with the new product key as an argument, and either deploy it as part of a startup script or run it from the command line to change the product key on a single computer.

For more information about how to script the product key, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457096.aspx (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457096.aspx)

ChangeVLKeySP1.vbs

' ' WMI Script - ChangeVLKey.vbs ' ' This script changes the product key on the computer ' '*************************************************************************** ON ERROR RESUME NEXT if Wscript.arguments.count<1 then Wscript.echo "Script can't run without VolumeProductKey argument" Wscript.echo "Correct usage: Cscript ChangeVLKey.vbs ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PRSTU-WYQZX" Wscript.quit end if Dim VOL_PROD_KEY VOL_PROD_KEY = Wscript.arguments.Item(0) VOL_PROD_KEY = Replace(VOL_PROD_KEY,"-","") 'remove hyphens if any for each Obj in GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}").InstancesOf ("win32_WindowsProductActivation") result = Obj.SetProductKey (VOL_PROD_KEY) if err <> 0 then WScript.Echo Err.Description, "0x" & Hex(Err.Number) Err.Clear end if Next

ChangeVLKey2600.vbs

' ' WMI Script - ChangeVLKey.vbs ' ' This script changes the product key on the computer ' '*************************************************************************** ON ERROR RESUME NEXT if Wscript.arguments.count<1 then Wscript.echo "Script can't run without VolumeProductKey argument" Wscript.echo "Correct usage: Cscript ChangeVLKey.vbs ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PRSTU-WYQZX" Wscript.quit end if Dim VOL_PROD_KEY VOL_PROD_KEY = Wscript.arguments.Item(0) VOL_PROD_KEY = Replace(VOL_PROD_KEY,"-","") 'remove hyphens if any Dim WshShell Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.RegDelete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents\OOBETimer" 'delete OOBETimer registry value for each Obj in GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}").InstancesOf ("win32_WindowsProductActivation") result = Obj.SetProductKey (VOL_PROD_KEY) if err <> 0 then WScript.Echo Err.Description, "0x" & Hex(Err.Number) Err.Clear end if Next

Example

The following example shows how to use the ChangeVLKeySP1.vbs script from a command line: