https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/ 2026-04-17T12:23:40+00:00 https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/ https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/autologon_bypass Disable the Auto Logon Shift Override Feature When the auto logon feature is enabled, it is possible for a user to press and hold the Shift key to bypass the auto logon sequence and enter a user name and password. To disable this ability, follow these steps: text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/autologon_configure Configuring Auto Logon Using this method to configuring Auto Logon stores the password in clear text, allowing anyone with access to the registry (either locally or remotely) to see the password. There are tools that do this and can store the password securely. text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/autologon_force Force the Use of Auto Logon When a Windows machine is configured to auto logon the computer will auto logon with a specified account. Users can log off, and then log on with alternate credentials. The ForceAutoLogon setting will cause the computer to log the auto logon account back in after you log off. It is designed for machines running as kiosks or other public accessible scenarios where you want a auto logon account to be the only account available. As a result, enabling the text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/cautrouble Can't create Cluster Aware Updating Object Recently I came across an issue when trying to enable the Cluster Aware Updating functionality in a Windows Server fail-over cluster. It was failing with the following error message: "“Unable to create the CAU clustered role because a Network Name resource could not be created. This can occur if a computer account (virtual computer object) for the role could not be created in the domain. Check the event log for more information. If the cluster name a… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/cygwin_ssh_permission Fix "bad owner or permissions" for SSH in Cygwin When I upgraded my Cygwin installation from 1.7.33 to 1.7.34, I started to get a “bad owner or permission” error message when I'd start a SSH connection. I searched the web for a couple of days but every website that I went to said to do: text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/disable_ipv6 Disable IPv6 On Windows Make the following a registry file and then open or directly modify the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters] "DisabledComponents"=dword:000000FF text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/disable_ipv6tunnel Disable IPv6 Tunnels On Windows Make the following a registry file and then open or directly modify the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters] "DisabledComponents"=dword:00000001 text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/disable_servermanagerstart Disable Server Manager From Starting during Logon I get annoyed each time I log into a Windows server by constant display of Server Manager during startup. To solve that issue, I open the registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ServerManager and change the value of text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/disable_tempipv6address Disable IPv6 Temporary Addresses I've recently start playing around with IPv6 even though my ISP doesn't provide native IPv6 support. I ended up using a tunnel broker, Hurricane Electric, to provide a public route-able IPv6 network. Setting that up is in another document along with configuring router advertisement. text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/enable_adminshares Enable Hidden Administratrative Shares Make the following a registry file and then open or directly modify the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy"=dword:00000001 text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/gptrestoreuefi Full-System Restore to a GPT disk on a UEFI System I recently replaced my 120GB SSD with a 500GB SSD and decided to restore my last full backup from my Server Essentials Server instead of installing the OS from scratch. Unfortunately, I kept getting a disk that would not boot after the restore completed. After some research, I found that I need to set-up and define the EFI and MSR partitions on the new uninitialized disk in order for Server Essentials to detect that it needed to restore the boo… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/hide_network_neighborhood Hide Your Computer From "My Network" If you want to hide your XP computer in a network so that only shared folders are accessible and the computer is not listed in the network neighborhood, then all you need to do is type one command. Go to run window and type in the following command: text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/managed_service_account Create a Managed Service Account FIXME text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/netfx3 Installing .NET 3.5 Offline or Manually I recently ran into issues installing SQL 2014 and 2012 which needed .Net 3.5 to complete the install. I was able to install SQL without problems in my personal lab but was unable to complete the installation at work text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/networkcapture Capturing Network Traffic on Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 A co-worker of mine recently discovered a very cool feature in Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2. Most people in the computer field already know that if you want to do a network capture, you usually need some kind of tool installed on the text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/symbolic_link_shares The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled When accessing a directory on a file server that is a symbolic link on that file server, you will sometimes see the following error: This is because, by default, remote to remote symbolic links are disabled. text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/vista_vmware VMware on Vista and 2008 I recently switched to Vista on one of my desktop computers that I use for development and after installing VMware Workstation 6.5, my networking became erratic. I would experience the inability to receive traffic on my VM as well as several networking features turned off in Vista. Bridged Networking became unusable. I did some research and found that the problem was the way that Vista and Windows 2008 treat the Network. There is a brand new network stack in these Opera… text/html 2023-09-18T20:00:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://prod.jnet.julianscorner.com/windows/zip_disable Disable Windows Built-in Zip File Support It used to be pretty easy to disable the built-in zip file support. Under Windows XP, you just excuted: regsvr32 /u %WINDIR%\system32\zipfldr.dll I have struggled constantly with disabling the built-in support under Vista and Windows 7. Most solutions I have tried just don't work. Finally, I have been able to accomplish this under both Vista and Window 7