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Windows System Administration
PC Technician Certifications and Professional Organizations PC Technician is projected to be among the fastest growing occupations over the 2008
? 2012 period. Entry Level PC Technicians earn $15 per hour on average, experienced PC
Technician's earn $30 per hour on average. Many people work as PC Technicians without
any formal training or certification. More ... Configure Windows Indexing Service for Performance The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of disk space and if the
shared directories on the network are large, it can consume a considerable
portion of the computer's memory and processor cycles. There are several
options for configuring the Indexing Service to improve performance. More ... WSH to Master Your Computer With Windows 2000 and higher, Microsoft included a program called "Windows
Scripting Host" (WSH) that allows scripts to be run on a computer outside
of a webpage. In effect, DOS batch files have returned, except scripts are
multi-tasking and have a lot more power. More ... The Security and Maintenance of Messages in Outlook Express Outlook Express includes several tools that protect the unauthorized users
from accessing the electronic data, thereby increasing the privacy and
integrity of the e-mail messages. More ... Internet Connection Sharing in Windows XP This article explains in detail how to set up a small network at home so
you can share your Internet connection between two computers running Windows XP. More ... Kill The Messenger (Service) All Windows versions install Messenger Service and turn it on by default.
A program freely available from the Internet allows spammers to control
the Messenger Service on hundreds of thousands of computers on the Web. More ... Defend Your Business with a Firewall A firewall is a piece of hardware or software that places a barrier between
your network and the internet. It prevents outsiders from accessing your
network and systems and delving into your confidential information or
performing malicious acts. More ... Font Basics There are two basic kinds of fonts, bitmapped fonts and scalable fonts.
Bitmapped fonts are constructed as a pattern of dots. Bitmapped fonts can
be enlarged, but this produces jagged looking type. More ... Disable Indexing to Speed Up Your Computer The Windows Indexing Service has to continuously monitor the files on your computer for
changes and update it's database when changes or new files are found. This uses processor
time and can take up more than a megabyte of ram. If you're just you're sitting in front
of your computer and the hard drive starts working very hard, that's probably the Indexing Service. More ... FreeDOS FreeDOS is a PC compatible Y2K compliant DOS that you can download from
www.freedos.org. Microsoft should have made the expiration period much
longer than 30 days. Maybe they want you to activate Windows XP before it crashes. More ...
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