Filed Under (Microsoft, Windows XP) by Tariq Jaber on 07-10-2008
If the Num Lock key bothers you when you startup your PC, here is how to disable it.
Notice that you need to edit a registry value, so make sure you take a backup of your registry before changing any value.
Click Start –> Run > regedit :
Locate the key [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard], change the value of
[InitialKeyboardIndicators] from 2 to 0.
2 means that Num lock is turned ON at startup
1 means that Num lock is disabled
0 means that Num lock is turned OFF at startup
Filed Under (ISA Server) by Tariq Jaber on 05-10-2008
Some Secure Nat clients behind ISA server 2006 may face a problem browsing HTTPS websites and other websites that require login like http://mail.yahoo.com and http://hotmail.com. Monitoring a client facing this issue results in one or both of the following logs:
0x80074E24 FWX_E_CONNECTION_KILLED
0×0040017 FWX_E_TCP_NOT_SYN_Packet_Dropped
Such a problem can be solved by disabling “Web Proxy Filter” on the HTTPS traffic.
To do so:
Firewall Policy –> Toolbox >[Protocols] > right click the HTTPS protocol. In the Parameters tab, uncheck the Web Proxy Filter, since the HTTPS traffic is not cache.
For more information, refer to the KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944006
Filed Under (Windows Server 2003) by Tariq Jaber on 03-10-2008
The following step describes how to reset the domain admin password in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory.
In order to perform this procedure you need the Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator account password to log on locally to the Domain Controller which you’ll use to reset the account password.
You also need to use two tools:
- Instsrv.exe: Service Installer
- Srvany.exe: Applications as Services Utility
Found in the “Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools”, you can download it from Microsoft website.
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