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With Windows XP, users no longer need to run a command line tool to check policies on their computer. Now any user can obtain a graphical report directly from the Help and Support Center.

To check policies in effect on your computer

1. Click Start, click Help and Support Center.
2. Under Pick a Task, select Use Tools to view your computer information and diagnose problems. 
3. Click Advanced System Information, then click View Group Policy settings applied. 

When system information is collected, results appear on the screen. This report can be printed, saved as an html file, and sent to a support administrator. In this example, the first few items in the report are shown in the figure below.

You can also use “gpresult” in CLI to verify the GPO applied settings.

Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breaches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no administrative privileges.

Some home users might be tempted to disable UAC because of the additional mouse clicking it brings into their system.

Using msconfig you can disable the UAC feature.

1. Launch MSCONFIG by from the Run menu.
2. Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find “Disable UAC” . Click on that line.
3. Press the “Launch” button.
4. A CMD window will open. When the command is done, you can close the window.
5. Close MSCONFIG. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

You can re-enable UAC by selecting the “Enable UAC” line and then clicking on the Launch button.

This happens if the Office application you’re using is running under standard privileges, and hence cannot modify the Add-In startup state in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive.

Windows Vista

To resolve the problem, start the Office application elevated. To do so, right-click on the Office application shortcut and choose Run as Administrator. Then open the Add-Ins dialog to enable or disable the registered Office Add-In.

Windows XP

Logon to an administrator account and then launch the Office application. Once the Add-In is enabled/disabled, logoff from the administrator account and proceed to your user account.

Using the Registry Editor Continue reading Error: The connected state of Office Add-Ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed.

To extend a partition or volume, you must first select the volume to give it the focus, and then you can specify how large to make the extension. To extend a volume, follow these steps:

1. At a command prompt, type diskpart.exe.
2. Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the computer.
3. Type Select volume volume number where volume number is number of the volume that you want to extend.
4. Type extend [size=n] [disk=n] [noerr]. The following describes the parameters:
   size=n
   The space, in megabytes (MB), to add to the current partition. If you do not specify a size, the disk is extended to use all the next contiguous unallocated space.

   disk=n
   The dynamic disk on which to extend the volume. Space equal to size=n is allocated on the disk. If no disk is specified, the volume is extended on the current disk.

   noerr
   For scripting only. When an error is thrown, this parameter specifies that Diskpart continue to process commands as if the error did not occur. Without the noerr parameter, an error causes Diskpart to exit with an error code.

5. Type exit to exit Diskpart.exe.

When the extend command is complete, you should receive a message that states that Diskpart successfully extended the volume. The new space should be added to the existing drive while maintaining the data on the volume.

The PAE switch generally used on servers running Advanced Server/Enterprise Editions of Windows with more than 4GB of memory. It includes a brief summary of the uses of PAE and supported Operating Systems.

• Used to provide access on 32-bit Intel systems to greater than 4GB of memory, and is not supported on 64-bit systems
• Not supported on standard editions of Windows 2000
• Supported on standard and enterprise editions of Windows 2003, but not recommended for production use
• Used by adding the PAE switch to the boot.ini and is not required if DEP is enabled through boot.ini with the /noexecute switch, as the OS will assume PAE Continue reading PAE Boot.ini Switch for DEP or 4GB+ memory