Windows Tech Reference
There is no substitute for a decent install and configuration of the OS.
- The article library: This is where you'll find articles on how to do various tweaks with Windows. They'll mainly be Windows 2000 and XP, as that is what I and most people I know who have a vague clue about Windows use now, but alot of the stuff can be applied to Windows NT4 as well. If there is anything for the "toy OS series" of Win9x, we'll mark them specifically as Win9x related.
- Install Guides: This section is again for reference use, where I and anyone else who wishes to contribute their own install guides for Windows for use in different environments.
- Information we want!: This section is for information that has been requested that we don't have the knowledge to write a good-enough article about, or we haven't the faintest idea of how to go about doing something in particular.
Who is this information intended for?
People who know what they're doing with Windows, for reference use. Having said that, we'll (myself and people who contribute to this part of my website) aim to provide accurate information that spells out how to configure things in a sane fashion, and not miss six steps in-between, "assuming you knew that". Unless the bit "assuming you knew that" really is, blindingly obvious.
A few things to note before you go delving
Files from the article library will either have been written by me, people I know, or copied and pasted from websites. If they're the latter variety, their source URL will be quoted at the top of the page. You may ask what the point is in this, there's two: First, I want to use this part of my site as my own personal reference, so I don't want to spend an age downloading site structures of other peoples' sites, and second, other websites are at liberty to change their site structure at any time. I don't want to have to keep checking URLs to make sure they haven't expired. It also means that the data will be in roughly the same format all the time, instead of users being at the mercy of badly-designed websites and dodgy font usage. I think that I'll be keeping all the articles in plaintext with sensible text-wrapping as well, but this might change. I'll see how things go on this one.
Semi-disclaimer
Information from this section of this site should be used with care. This is a disclaimer to say that if you didn't realise something blindingly obvious (like say, removing the IISADMIN service manually from the registry stops IIS from loading properly!), and doing something one of the articles says breaks something horrendously on your system(s), don't come crying to us!
On the other hand, this isn't a disclaimer to say that we are just going to blindly put stuff up that might screw up non-obvious things. We'll do our best to point this out in the articles, and constructive feedback is always appreciated. Idiotic feedback is never appreciated.
[Constructive] Windows AdminCentral feedback should go to mike dash wac at mikeymike dot org dot uk, please. Non-constructive feedback should stay in that head of yours :-)