Windows Administration
Quickly Search for MS KB Articles
You can modify the registry to add the capability to quickly search the KB articles (formerly referred to as Q articles) in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Here’s the procedure: 1. Run regedit.exe. 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl. 3. From the Edit menu, select New, Key and name it KB. 4. Select [...]
Deploying Software using Group Policy
From the Windows Dev Center, another good article on Microsoft Windows Administration. This one is on Using Group Policy to Deploy Software. From the article: Deploying software is something that is typically a pretty simple task. However, this is not necessarily the case when the software you are deploying must be installed to [...]
Better Registry Searching
The O’Reilly Windows Dev Center has a great article posted about searching through the Windows Registry. Written by Mitch Tulloch this short article covers speeding up your searches and a few new tools that you may not have been aware of. I like articles like these. As a Windows system administrator, I am always looking for tools [...]
