Girl Geekette

Windows 9x and ME users:

A) Use Regedit.exe to navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesWinsock. 
B) Export the Winsock key to a Winsock.reg file, to save it. 
C) Delete the Winsock key. 
D) Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesWinsock2.
E) Export the Winsock2 key to a Winsock2.reg file, to save it.
F) Delete the Winsock2 key.
G) Exit Regedit.exe.
H) Control Panel / Network and Dial-up Connections.
I) Right-click Local Area Connection and press Properties.
J) Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and press Uninstall.
K) After uninstalling TCP/IP, shutdown and restart your computer.
L) If TCP/IP is NOT automatically re-installed, use Control Panel / Network and Dial-up Connections.
M) Right-click Local Area Connection and press Properties.
N) Press Install.
O) Press Protocol / Add.
P) Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) under Network Protocol, possibly under Microsoft, and press OK.
Q) After the TCP/IP install, power off and power on your external modem, or shutdown and restart your computer.

What is the WBEM?

Background: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is an implementation of Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).

WBEM is a set of open, industry-defined specifications that unify and extend the management of enterprise-computing environment.

The central part of WMI is the CIMOM (Common Interface Model Object Manager) which is an interface to the data container itself - the Common Information Model - better known as the CIM.

With ought WMI, services, drivers, and applications will return information as data or events into the CIM. This data can then be extracted and analyzed by system managers. This information will provide the managers with better ways to manage, troubleshoot and otherwie keep systems in the best condition. WEBMTEST.EXE is an example of a program to extract this information.

See Microsoft’s Tech net for more information about this subject.

If you have ever moved a file and had it disable any shortcuts referring to it, then you might have noticed that Windows 2000 and Windows XP will search the HDD to find the file again and correct the shortcut. This can be desiabled in the registry using this DWORD:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER Windows ]
NoResolveTrack = 1