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Recently, I found a very neat tool that will enable you to list out all the programs that is running in your startup in Windows.  From DLLs, Services, Registry, Internet Explorer, and more.

The program is called ‘Autoruns’ from Sysinternal, which Microsoft brought.

“This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

You’ll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!”

Click picture to Visit Microsoft site to download Autoruns and other Sysinternal tools.

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Here are the steps on how to disable the Active updates from AOL AIM.

1. Make sure AOL AIM isn’t running

2. Located the ‘stic.dll‘.  Usually this is in the ‘C:\Program Files\AIM6\services\softwareUpdate\’ folder.

3. Highlight and delete the ’stic.dll’ file.  If you couldn’t delete it, you might want to check if AOL AIM is still running or not by opening up Task Manager.

4. Start AOL AIM and it shouldn’t be prompting you for the annoying Active Updates window.

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Overview from Microsoft site

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If you have a Blackberry Enterprise Server setup to sync with your Exchange server, you might want to make sure the user profile setup on the Blackberry device doesn’t have administrator rights.  If so,  then you will not be able to send emails out on the Blackberry.  In order to be able to send out emails, the User needs to have the ’send as’ permission in their profile in Active Directory.

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Okay, today I ran into this problem with a client’s Blackberry device.  Whenever he sync his Blackberry to Desktop Manager he will see the same confirm calendar edit items.  I spent two hours trying to figure out why this is happening and it turns out that on those calendar items, one of the attendee’s email name is different.  It shows up differently on his Outlook global address book.

The following changes from Calendar Microsoft Outlook will be applied to your Device data in Calendar:

Solution: Even though this isn’t a good solution, but still a work around.  If your client doesnt’ care about having the attendee’s listed on his Blackberry, then you can unselect the mapped field for the attendee.  You can use Desktop Manager to change the sync options for the calendar.

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Here are the steps on setting up your iPhone to sync with Microsoft Exchange.

1. Make sure your iphone is running the iPhone OS 2.0;  If not, you will need to install iTunes 7.7 and upgrade it
2. On the Exchange account, check if it is using IMAP.  If so, you will need to disable it.
3. Click on the ‘Mail’ icon to setup a new mail account.
4. Choose ‘Microsoft Exchange’

5. Enter in your email address and username/password for the Exchange account.
6. If the auto discovery fails, it will prompt you for the server name.
7. If all information is entered correctly, you should be able to receives emails from your Exchange account.
8. Now, if you want to sync the calander and contacts too. You can do this.  On the email account that you createdand under calander/contacts, tap the ’sync’ button.

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In order to change the NTP to point to a different source, you will need to modify the registry for the PDC emulator server.  Usually this is the first domain controller in your network assuming you didn’t change the FSMO roles for it.

Registry Change Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters

1. Change the ‘Type‘ key to ‘NTP‘
2. Add the ‘NtpServer‘ key (This is a string value) and add the new source address to this.  This can be an IP address too.
3. Close the Registry window and restart the ‘Windows Time Service‘ under Services
4. Wait and see if computers in your domain gets the time update or not. Usually depending on your setup, it will take 45minutes or less. If not, you can initial the sync by typing ‘w32tm /resync /rediscover‘

Information: Time Stratum order
1     External NTP time source
2     PDC emulator of the forest root domain
3     Domain controllers in the forest root domain or PDC emulators in child domains
4     Workstations and member servers in the forest root domain or domain controllers in child domains
5     Workstations and member servers in child domains

W32Time service registry values
*** From the Microsoft site ***

* AvoidTimeSyncOnWan : REG_DWORD (optional)
Prevents the computer from synchronizing with a computer that is in another site.
0 = the site of the time source is ignored [default]
1 = the computer does not synchronize with a time source that is in a different site
* GetDcBackoffMaxTimes : REG_DWORD (optional)
The maximum number of times to double the backoff interval when successive attempts to find a domain controller do not succeed. An event is logged every time a wait of the maximum length occurs.
0 = the wait between successive attempts is always the minimum and no event is logged
7 = [default]
* GetDcBackoffMinutes : REG_DWORD (optional)
The initial number of minutes to wait before looking for a domain controller if the last attempt did not succeed.
15 = [default]
* LocalNTP : REG_DWORD
Used to start the SNTP server.
0 = do not start the SNTP server unless this computer is a domain controller[default]
1 = always start the SNTP server
* NtpServer : REG_SZ (optional)
NtpServer : REG_SZ (optional) Used to manually configure the time source. Set this to the DNS name or IP address of the NTP server to synchronize from. You can modify this from the command line by using the net time command. Value is blank by default

Note When you join a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer to a domain, the computer may not synchronize its time setting with the time setting of the domain controller if the Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server check box in the Date and Time Properties dialog box is not selected. The default option (NTP) for Windows Server 2003 workgroup computers is disabled if the Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server check box is not selected. When you join the computer to a domain that has this setting, the default synchronization type (Nt5DS) for computers that are joined to a domain is not set and the time service does not synchronize from the domain hierarchy.

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Here are the commands to add an user account to the local Cisco IOS database

1. You will need to be in the configuration mode, console into the Cisco device and type ‘config t’ to go into the configuration mode

e.g. config t

2. Type in ‘username John password cisco’

In this example, John is the user name and cisco is the password

Also, if you want to set privileges to those user accounts you can add the ‘priv’ parameter to it

e.g. username John priv 15 password cisco

In this example, John will have the administrator rights (level 15 - the highest) to the cisco device.  Privilege level 0 is the lowest.

Now, with the users account set.

** Note: Make sure you also enable the ‘aaa’ command

e.g. aaa new-model
aaa authentication login default local

The first line enable the authentication, authorization and accounting.
The second line tells it to use the local username database

You will need to tell the console or telnet to use the local ISO database.

1. In the configuration mode, type in ‘line con 0′  <– this will configure the console

2. Type in ‘login local’  <— tell it to use the Cisco local iso database

3. Type in ‘line vty 0 4′ <– this will configure telnet

4. Type in ‘login local’  <– tell it to use the Cisco local ISO database

5. exit out

Now you have configured your Cisco Router to access username from its local database.

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Here’s how to enable cookies in IE (7 and

1. Open up the command prompt window

2. Type in ‘inetcpl.cpl’ to start the internet options page

3. Go to the ‘Privacy’ tab

4. Move the slider to adjust the settings for the cookies.

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Here are the steps on how to delete cookies in Internet Explorer (IE 8, IE 7, IE 6).

How to manually delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 6

1. Start up Internet Explorer

2. Click on ‘Tools’

3. Click on ‘Internet Options’

4. Under the ‘General’ tab, look for the ‘delete cookies’ button
How to manually delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 7

1. Start up Internet Explorer

2. Click on ‘Tools’

3. Click on ‘Internet Options’

4. Under the ‘General’ tab, look for the ‘delete cookies’ button

How to manually delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 8

1. Start up Internet Explorer

2. Click on ‘Tools’

3. Click on ‘Internet Options’

4. Under the ‘General’ tab, click on ‘delete browsing history’ and then ‘delete’

** Another way of starting the internet options page is to type ‘inetcpl.cpl’ in the command prompt

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