Windows System Administration
Microsoft Licensing Explained
If any of you have tried to figure out Microsoft's licensing laws you know
how frustrating and confusing it is. I have written a brief explanation
below covering Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. 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 ... Synchronize Your PC's Clock with an Internet Time Server
Your PC should, by default, be configured to synchronize to time.windows.com every seven days.
One of the reasons you might be thinking of synchronizing your PC's clock is because it doesn't
keep accurate time. More ... Windows 2000 Security Overview
Computer network security is a large topic. You can't configure strong
security if you don't have a "top-down" overview of the security features
available and how to configure them. More ... PC Technician's Guide to Providing Telephone Support
Troubleshooting PC problems over a telephone is a difficult task. Always keep complete
support incident documentation. If you can't solve the problem, follow your company's
escalation policy. If a problem is taking a long time to solve, try to work out a temporary
work-around with the customer so that they can stay in business. By following the steps
in this article you'll be able to provide successful telephone technical support. More ... Configuring Windows as a NTP (Network Time Protocol) Server
The Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 onwards has an in-built
time synchronization service - Windows Time. The Windows Time service
facilitates a Windows network to provide synchronization of all machines
within a domain. This article describes how to configure the Windows 2000
and Windows 2003 time service as a NTP server. More ... Planning a Backup and Restoration of Files for Disaster Recovery
Planning a backup and restoration of files is the most important step to
protect data from accidental loss in the event of data deletion or a hard
disk failure. The backup copy can be used to restore lost or damaged data. More ... Restrict Web Browsing With Internet Explorer
Regulating web browsing can prevent children (and workers) from accessing dangerous
content on the internet, or having to make judgment calls over suitable relationships
in chat-rooms. You can block access to unwanted web content. Here's how to do so with
a basic Parental Control tool included free with Windows. More ... Hard Disk Management
In addition to the basic disk, Windows XP Professional also supports the
dynamic disk, which overcomes the limitations of the basic disk. Dynamic
disks are actually physical disks that are created and managed with the Disk
Management utility in Windows XP. More ... PC Technician's Software Copyright Responsibilities
As a PC Technician, working on other people's computers, you'll be in a position to
encounter illegally copied software. For example, maybe you need to re-install a
customer's operating system or application software and you find that the customer
is using an illegal copy. What do you do? Do you go ahead and install the illegal software? More ... What is Windows Aero and Mouse Gestures?
Aero is Microsoft's new gimmicky graphical user interface for Windows Visa and Windows 7.
Its main feature is the translucent glassy window borders, allowing background objects to
be visible through them. Another feature of Aero is mouse gestures. The mouse gestures
are Snap, Shake, and Peek. More ... How to Configure the msdos.sys file
Msdos.sys was one of the three files (along with io.sys and command.com)
that DOS 6 and earlier versions was composed of. Beginning with Windows 95,
msdos.sys was combined into io.sys and the new msdos.sys became a text editable
configuration file. More ...
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