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  Some time back I had written on there is no load balancing concept in Windows XP. However with 2 internet connections which is kinda normal for guys like me (I have a broadband connection over WiMAX as well as an EVDO connection from BSNL). So I can’t ... Continue Reading

  As Microsoft says; Account Lockout Status (LockoutStatus.exe) is a combination command-line and graphical tool that displays lockout information about a particular user account.   ... Continue Reading

  Not an option visible in XP by default; Somebody had a question regarding this and I found out a comprehensive answer (better than what I’d have written), so here it is; ... Continue Reading

      You think of Microsoft, it is Bill Gates. Regardless of all the crap I hear about Microsoft/Windows from friends, colleagues, it was one Vision and completed successfully, for every PC at an average home now has Windows on it. – Indeed a vision. ... Continue Reading

  Some time back I had written about moving the document and settings folder in Windows to a bigger location (for want of size or backup of some data in there, in the event of machine crash). That was a manual process, by there is good news, there is a ... Continue Reading

One of the things that could improve your system performance is to avoid fragmented data on the hard disk. Now, how many of us really remember to put the machine for defragmentation while we go for a meeting or lunch time is a million dollar question. I have seen a ... Continue Reading

With the speed networking demands goes-on, traditional administrators have started using Windows' with 2 networks configured on 2 NIC's with 2 default gateway's as well. This is one of the thing which can never be predicted as to how windows will behave. First of all, Windows is not made to ... Continue Reading

It is nice to use the RDP to be on a different port for security purposes. If a firewall scanner finds out that port 3389 is allowed then it is pretty obvious that it is an RDP hole in the firewall punched in. So how about port 12345 ? 2 ... Continue Reading

By default if you want to allow rdp access to a machine inside the PIX from internet, you need to have static defined for nat and an access-list to allow that traffic. For example, if we want to do this with the ip assigned on the outside interface, we'd ... Continue Reading

Natively Windows XP doesn't support partitions greater than 32GB of the size for FAT32 partitions. The age we live in, it is not quite a surprise that PC's have hard disk sizes of 120GB and more! So here is the solution for creating a FAT32 partition in Windows XP which ... Continue Reading