General Hints & Tips

Windstream DNS Servers The ad-free servers are

166.102.165.32
207.91.5.32

taken from this post which includes Windows how to use instructions.

The redirecting servers are

Primary: 166.102.165.13
Secondary: 207.91.5.20

Posted by Ralph A. Dahlgren on Thursday, 22-Jul-2010 10:19 AM

How to map an XP drive to Windows 7


How to map an XP drive to Windows 7

If you have both XP and Windows 7 computers on your home or small business (peer to peer) network, you may have run into problems when you try to map a drive on an XP machine. Specifically, when you browse for a shared folder from the Windows 7 computer, you might get a message that says "You do not have permission to access (path to XP computer). Contact your network administrator to request access." Or you might be prompted for a username and password, and you get a logon failure even when you put in the correct credentials.

The solution is to st up the Windows 7 local account as a user account on the XP computer and add it to the Administrators group there. To do that, follow these steps on the XP machine:
  1. Right click My Computer and click Manage.
  2. In the left pane, expand Local Users and Groups.
  3. Click the Users folder.
  4. In the right pane, click an empty space and select New User.
  5. Create the account with the Windows 7 user name and password (uncheck "User must change password at next logon" and check "Password never expires").
  6. Reboot the XP computer.
  7. Now you should be able to browse to and map specific folders on the XP machine from the Windows 7 machine and entering these credentials.

Posted by Ralph A. Dahlgren on Wednesday, 23-Jun-2010 08:55 AM

Restore Show Desktop Icon How to restore the Show Desktop icon in QuickLaunch

A reader recently wrote that he had accidentally deleted the "Show Desktop" icon in the QuickLaunch toolbar, and couldn't figure out how to get it back. The procedure for getting the "Show Desktop" icon back if you delete it isn't exactly intuitive. Here's what you do:

  1. Click Start | Programs | Accessories and click on Notepad to open it.
  2. Type the following, exactly as shown:
    [Shell]
    Command=2
    IconFile=explorer.exe,3
    [Taskbar]
    Command=ToggleDesktop
  3. Save the file with the name ShowDesktop.scf
  4. Drag the file's icon onto the Quick Launch toolbar (or the desktop if you prefer).

Courtesy WXPNews

Posted by Ralph A. Dahlgren on Tuesday, 25-Aug-2009 08:50 AM

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