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This error occurs when you’re running Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and you connect to an MIT realm and select Change Password from the Security dialog box (Ctrl+Alt+Del). (An MIT realm is a Kerberos realm used for authentication in the same way that Win2K uses Kerberos 5 for authentication.) The full error you’ll receive is

“Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.”

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You can use either a policy setting or the registry to configure AD for browsing. To use the policy setting method, perform the following steps:

Open Group Policy with the Group Policy Editor (GPE).
Navigate to User Configurations, Administrative Templates, Desktop, AD.
Double-click “Hide Active Directory folder.”
Select the Policy tab.
Click Enabled, and click OK.
Close the policy.

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By default, Outlook 2002 and MSN Messenger are linked. If both applications are running and you attempt to close MSN Messenger, the following error will appear on screen:

“There are other applications currently using features provided by Windows Messenger. You must close these other applications before you can exit Windows Messenger. These applications may include Outlook, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, and Internet Explorer.”

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Windows XP includes an option to perform a boot defragment, which places all files required for booting next to each other on disk to provide a faster boot time. The OS enables this option by default, but you can check the status and enable this option by performing the following steps:

Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftDfrgBootOptimizeFunction.
If Enable isn’t set to Y, double-click Enable and set the value to Y.
Click OK.
Close the registry editor.
Reboot the machine.
If you want to disable boot defragment, set Enable to N.

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If you plan to reinstall XP on the same hardware, you can back up the activation status and then restore it after you reinstall the OS. To save the activation status, back up the wpa.dbl file from the %systemroot%\system32 folder to a disk or other location.

After you reinstall the OS, perform the following steps:

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If you upgrade from Windows Me or Windows 9x to Windows XP in the coming days and want to network your new PC or new OS with other machines in your house, you need to remember a few key details. Unlike Windows Me and Win9x, XP has built-in networking security, so you’ll have to log on to an XP box before you can use it and, if you’re wise, you’ll password-protect that account. But after you do so, you won’t be able to access shares on your XP box from Windows Me and Win9x machines. Here’s why: In a Windows workgroup based on XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT, you must supply valid credentials (your logon/password) before you can access network resources. And you must configure these logons and associated passwords on any XP (or Win2K or NT) machine on the network. So let’s say you log on as “sally” to a Win98 machine. To access an XP machine on the same network, you’ll have to set up a “sally” account on the XP box that uses the same password. After you set it up your network this way, accessing shares will work the same way it did in Windows Me and Win9x.

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Although it’s almost impossible to completely secure your email, you can check for known threats. A free test zone is available online. If your antivirus product catches all the test viruses, your systems are protecting you from all known viruses.
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XP provides built-in zip support so that you can open compressed files as if they were folders. However, if you use a third-party program, such as WinZip, XP’s built-in zip handling might get in the way. To disable XP’s zip support, perform the following steps:

Select Run from the Start menu.
Enter
regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
Click OK.
Restart the computer.

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