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Can I disable the RESTART option after completing windows update? Is there any way to cancel a Reboot?
Mar 26th
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not for the faint of heart or slow typers!!!)
Not only will we show you how to disable the automatic restart option after updates via Group Policy we will show you how to quickly cancel a reboot.
- Go to Start –> Run, type “gpedit.msc”.
- Go to Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Update.
- Look for option “No Auto Restart For Scheduled Automatic Update installation” and Enable that option.
- This will make sure that your computer is not rebooted automatically, instead it will just notify you for a reboot. It will be users choice as to when to reboot your computer
- If in case you want it to notify you again and again, after a specific interval of time, then look for option “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations”. Enable that option and specify the time.
Everything above is all easy, its just editing some policies which you can perform easily. [TechiesDen]
Now to cancel a reboot:
- Start
- Run
- Type Shutdown -a and hit enter
Thats it, that will cancel your impending doom if you hit it fast enough!
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I need to open a port on my router or firewall. How do i do that? What is that? Should I Be Scared??
Jan 20th
Almost 3 weeks in to the New Year and the Admin needs some rest – maybe a day off?
Yeah right we have even more emails today and I am studying for my 2008 Microsoft Certs! This has been a big year for the AtA gang – stay tuned for more of our geeky flavored content in 2008.
Our reader Diego has an application on his computer that he needs to get access to while he is away. Diego is trying to get VNC going on his iPhone. This tutorial is for you no matter what router you are on but, it uses the WRT54G as an example. You should be able to use the knowledge to work with most modern routers. To begin there are a few things you need to do. First as a prerequisite you need to know the difference between external and internal ip addresses.
You see that you can’t get to your internal addresses also referred to as your NAT IP from outside without some work. You are in a protected kingdom. (Pardon the corny references but they work well!) The inside of your network is like the inside of your virtual castle.
The only way in is by opening a port sort of like building a virtual draw bridge. To open this draw bridge to your computer over the internet you need your computer to have a static IP address.
Now we need to see if you are using a static IP or a dynamic IP. Do you know how to tell? In Windows this is done by:
- Right click on the my network icon
- Choose properties
- Right click on the icon that represents your Connection
- Choose properties.
- Scroll down to Internet Protocol and click Properties.
- If the check box is checked to obtain an IP address automatically then We want to check the Use The IP address. BUT don’t fill in anything or click OK yet We will get right back to this as soon as we get the address to fill in!
- Now we want to goto DOS and find your current IP address. Goto Start
- Run
- Type in CMD and hit enter
- Now type ipconfig /all
- and write down your IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS servers. We Will now fill this address information into the address box we left blank a moment ago.
- Now you have a static IP address and are half way there! Now go to this link here:
Plug in your static IP we set above and follow the rest of the instructions and you will be remote controlling your PC from your Shiny iPhone in no time! Let us know how it works out for you!
What The Hell Happened To My Task Managers Tabs and Options?
Jan 13th
A reader from Idaho was seriously freaked out after a late night at the computer and sent us a picture of their task manager in a strange state.
They asked for their identity to be with held so here is a screen-shot of a random person’s task manager in a similar mode.
This is what is called “Tiny Foot Print” mode. Don’t worry its nothing to get all frantic about dude.
It happens by double clicking (usually by accident) on the gray border which we have so kindly dotted and pointed an arrow at for you in the picture on the right.
Why am I getting Winmail.dat files on my mac from Windows users?
Jan 12th
Jodi writes in:
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On the exchange server, go to global settings, Internet Message Formats, Default Properties, Advanced tab, for “Exchange Rich-Text Format” select “Never Use”.
This will prevent your Exchangeserver from using Rich-Text Format and creating winmail.dat files.
From TNEF’s website:
TNEF’s Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream files. The files are usually received by SMTP based e-mail programs from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook users. The SMTP based e-mail program will usually receive either a MIME attachment named “winmail.dat” or a MIME attachment with the type “application/ms-tnef.”
The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook to Exchange. When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it writes the MAPI message as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side effect of this plan is if the Outlook user has someone in their address book as a person who can receive “Rich Text” then the user will receive the TNEF file whether the user uses Outlook or not.
TNEF’s Enough is a freeware application
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