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I use Remote Desktop to connect some dell servers, and the default background image is slooooow.

So after a few  minutes research, here’s the solution to remove it.

1. open regedit
2. goto  [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
3. empty the value of wallpaper
4. enjoy!

To make my life eaiser, I created a reg file, so just unzip and merge it would make your life easier too
empty_wallpaper.zip

However if you’r concern about the safty, here’s the contents of the file, so you can create your own reg file easily.
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
“Wallpaper”=”"

Telnet is not installed by default. Here’s the step to install on Windows Vista
1. Open control panel
2. Open Programs and Features
3. On the left panel, select “Turn Windows Features on or off”
4. In the tree, select “Telnet Client”, and click OK

Telnet is the basic tool for a network administrator.

IIS log files locate at c:\windows\system32\logfiles
It can use up disk C if not well maintained.

When I try to connect to a server by Remote desktop, it report “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections”.
Here’s the step to disconnect the un-used session and make yourself able to connect it.
1. start tsadmin.exe from a windows 2003 server that you have access
2. right click on “all listed servers”, then select “connect to computer”, and type in the IP address for that server
3. Then you would able to disconnect other session and you can login

Here’s the step to export PUTTY sessions:
c:\> reg  export hkcu\software\simontatham\putty putty.reg

Then you have all the PUTTY sessions and host keys in putty.reg.
Transfer the reg file to another computer and merge into registry.

Just installed Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition on Vista, and it won’t stop at the breakpoint.

Solution:
1. Start VS Web as administrator
2. right click project, select “Property Pages”, in Start Options, make sure Debuggers->ASP.NET is checked
3. open web.config, make sure you have the following lines:
    <compilation debug=”true”/>
4. Open IE, in Tools->Internet Options, select Advanced tab, make sure the “Disable script debugging (IE/Other)” is unchecked
5. Restart IE if you changed the setting

Now you should have the VS Web stopped at the breakpoint.

1. Recording conversion:
I use dBpoweramp Music Converter to convert my recording before, and found it is no longer free recently(it’s no longer free for sometime). After tried a few other software, I found foobar2000 is one of the best converting software to let you easily convert between WAV/MP3/MP4/OGG etc. Visit here to download the latest version.

2. Simple image processing/converting

IrfanView is one of the best software for view image and convert into different format. It can do some simple crop/selection as well. You can download the latest version here

I installed php 5.2.3 onto c:\php, but the script won’t connect to SQL 2005 through mssql extension.
The solution:
1. get the latest ntwdblib.dll from a machine which installed sql server 2000
2. put the dll to c:\php

The dll shipped with php 5.2.3 is version 7.0, and the latest is 8.0, which make the difference when connecting to a SQL 2005.

first, this article helps a lot

www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html

www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/tips/winntmag/optntfs.mspx?mfr=true

Here’s what I did

fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1

disable short filenames

fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

disable last access time

make sure indexing service are disabled

format the disk with 4k cluster or unit size