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Change the Program Files and Common Files paths (=>Win2k)

Domains

How to access the Group Policy component (=>Win2k)

Domain admin: How to set up a default user roaming profile (WinNTx)

IIS

Logging options worth setting for the IIS SMTP service (=>Win2k)

Install IIS SMTP mailroot to a different place (WinNTx)

Miscellaneous

[NEW] Change the Program Files and Common Files paths (=>Win2k)

How to disable disk performance counters (DISKPERF) (=>Win2k)

How to troubleshoot the fax printer driver installation (=>Win2k)

How to disable IPsec (Win2k)

Group policy: reduce the amount of time it takes to log out (=>Win2k)

How to disable IPsec on Windows XP (WinXP)

The definitive way of changing locale settings on Windows 2000/XP (without INTERNAT.EXE / CTFMON.EXE knocking around) (=>Win2k)

How to disable the network connections service without errors (=>Win2k)

How to disable performance counters, and what registry settings affect what entries in performance monitor (=>Win2k)

The Protected Storage service, what it provides (WinNTx)

Networking

How to disable DCOM and also some DCOM vuln-related info (WinNTx)

DHCP client dependencies (WinNTx)

Dial-up networking dependencies (=>Win2k)

Internet Connection Sharing dependencies (=>Win2k)

How to disable IPsec (Win2k)

How to disable IPsec on Windows XP (WinXP)

How to disable the network connections service without errors (=>Win2k)

How to switch off TCP/IP ports 135, 137-139 and 445 (WinNTx)

[UPDATED] How to set up Terminal Services SSH tunnelling (=>Win2k)

How to switch off IIS www's .printer vdir (and it not return!), and the .printer extension in IIS config (=>Win2k)

[UPDATED] How to set up WinVNC SSH tunnelling (WinNTx)

Performance

How to disable disk performance counters (DISKPERF) (=>Win2k)

The definitive way of changing locale settings on Windows 2000/XP (without INTERNAT.EXE / CTFMON.EXE knocking around) (=>Win2k)

How to disable performance counters, and what registry settings affect what entries in performance monitor (=>Win2k)

How to access the Group Policy component (=>Win2k)

[NEW] Group policy: reduce the amount of time it takes to log out (=>Win2k)

How to disable OS/2 & POSIX subsystems (WinNTx)

The Protected Storage service, what it provides (WinNTx)

Primers

A primer for configuring volume-wide filesystem permissions (WinNTx)

Scripting

Installing patches using VBS (WinNTx)

Security

How to disable DCOM and also some DCOM vuln-related info (WinNTx)

How to disable OS/2 & POSIX subsystems (WinNTx)

How to switch off TCP/IP ports 135, 137-139 and 445 (WinNTx)

How to switch off IIS www's .printer vdir (and it not return!), and the .printer extension in IIS config (=>Win2k)

How to set up WinVNC SSH tunnelling (WinNTx)

 

A quick key to OS-specifics:

(WinNTx) = Windows NT4 and later

(=>Win2k) = Windows 2000 and later

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