Network Administration & Consulting Services

If you installed Acrobat Reader 8 and on the first start Reader will not allow you to accept or decline license add the following entries into the registry.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\AdobeViewer]
"EULA"=dword:00000001
"Launched"=dword:00000001
"Registered"=dword:00000002

Most Windows 2000 / 2003 servers running IIS, have remote registry access disabled, for security reasons. by using psservice I've write a script to determine if the IISADMIN and W3SVC service is running on remote Server:

When Windows Vista is connected to high speed broadband Internet connection, there may be some incompatibilities and conflict problem or error such as the following:

• Poor intermittent network performance.
• Slow network loading.
• Unable to open and load some websites or webpages using Internet Explorer or Firefox, where the blue loading bar keeps running for a long time, but the pages fail to load.
• Java applets fail to download and open.
• Cannot receive email or download from POP3 mail server by email clients such as Thunderbird. No mail arrived although users may see the message “receiving 1 of 3 messages”, and eventually the receiving process will time out with the error number 0×800CCC19 timeout.
• Slow email sending or retrieval using Thunderbird and other clients.

For a long time for downloading files I use Flashget. Very convenient and simple program. By default, the given program does not allow to download more than 8 files Simultaneous. 

This number can be increased by the tweak below:

1. Run Regedit.
2. Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JetCar\JetCar\General\]
3. Right Click -> Add String Value.
4. Name as MaxSimJobs -> Set the value as what ever number you want.

After a restart you should be able to download with more file splits.

Many administrators are familiar with an opportunity of cloning Windows OS (Sysprep). I already described process of cloning.

Recently, one my client has put a task, to install one Windows server, to set up all and to prepare system for cloning. Also it was required, that on all servers would be static IP addresses.

Equally, it's a not so complicated, but we have only one small problem. At cloning, on different servers Windows set different a name for network cards, once Local Area Connection, once Local Area Connection 2, sometimes Local Area Connection 5 and so on. As you understand, it makes a certain inconvenience at automation of process. To solve the given problem I’ve created a script, Set-IP.bat.