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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Admin Know-IT-all Quiz #14: A questionable background - Blooper Contest: Super duper bloopers -- vote to pick a winner - Exclusive Article: Disk defragmentation fundamentals and beyond - Ask Jerry Honeycutt: Windows 2000 password retention problems - Tip Contest: New month, new prize -- win a Mojo CD-MP3 player! ____________________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: Argent FREE DOWNLOAD -- ENTERPRISE MONITORING SOFTWARE Find out for yourself why Major League Baseball, IBM, Minolta, Morgan Stanley, Toyota, Nokia and the National Bank of Canada all rely on The Argent Guardian. Cost-effectively monitor Windows, Unix and Linux servers with one solution! According to ENT News, "The Argent Guardian is a major contender in the system monitoring arena." >> Download a free, fully functioning copy of the Argent Guardian: http://searchWin2000.com/r/0,,8109,00.htm?Argent ____________________________________________________________________ SOLVE "PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED" ERRORS | by Serdar Yegulalp Users of Internet Explorer and Windows 2000 sometimes report a problem that at first appears to be a DNS issue, or a network problem in general, but is in fact due to a corrupt cache-management file in Internet Explorer. Since many Internet components in Windows embed IE as a way to render Web pages, either from a local drive or remotely, a corrupt IE cache can appear to be a bevy of problems in different guises. The most common symptom of a corrupt IE cache is an error message when attempting to open a Web page. Usually the error message has the form: "The page cannot be displayed. The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings." The file that manages IE's local documents cache is called INDEX.DAT and is a hidden file that resides either in the Temporary Internet Files folder or in the Cookies folder. Since this file is generated on a per-user basis, some users on the same machine may have this problem and some may not. To rebuild the INDEX.DAT file: 1. Open Internet Explorer and select Tools | Internet Options, then click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files. 2. Clear the History by clicking Clear History. 3. Close all instances of Internet Explorer, and all other open programs. 4. Now you now have two choices. You can either: - Log off and log back on as a different user and then start a CMD prompt. or - Start a CMD prompt and then kill EXPLORER.EXE from the Task Manager. Go to the directory \Documents and Settings\<User>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5. <User> in this case is the user experiencing the network problems. 5. Type DEL INDEX.DAT to delete the affected file. 6. If you have your Temporary Internet Files located in another folder (this folder can be manually reassigned, so there is a chance it may be somewhere else), you will need to go to Documents and Settings\<User>\Cookies and delete the INDEX.DAT file there. 7. Log off and log back on as the original user, then launch Internet Explorer and browse normally. >> Did you like this tip? Whether you loved it or hated it, let us know! Rate it here: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci866794,00.html >> Got an security tip of your own? Submit it today: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit/1,289485,sid1,00.html ____________________________________________________________________ Help us improve our site -- Take the SearchWin2000.com Survey! Complete our survey and tell us what Windows 2000 information you value most right now -- so we can ensure that SearchWin2000.com remains a vital tool for you in the coming weeks and months. The survey takes just a few minutes, and the answers you provide will ultimately benefit you as well as us. Thank you in advance for your help! >> CLICK to take the survey! http://www.insightexpress.com/s/kle49623.asp ____________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A QUESTIONABLE BACKGROUND | Admin Know-IT-All Quiz #14 Test your knowledge with this week's quiz, then visit the list of related information you'll find on the answer page. Many administrators are familiar with the option in Windows 2000 to give equal processing time or priority to foreground and/or background processes. The best way to provide additional levels of granularity and flexibility to foreground and background processes is to: a. Adjust the processing settings in your Control Panel b. Edit the way Windows 2000 handles quantum lengths c. Look for errors within your redo logs d. Clean out your recycle bin and Internet cache e. Hire a P.I. to investigate your PC's background >> CLICK for the correct answer... http://www.searchWin2000.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci866952,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SUPER DUPER BLOOPERS -- VOTE TO PICK A WINNER | Blooper Contest Submissions to our True IT Blooper Contest have been great, but now we need your help in choosing the pick of the litter, the cream of the crop and the best of the rest. So who deserves the prize? Have a look at some of the front runners and then cast your vote to participate in this neck and neck nail biting tiebreaker! - Oops! True IT blooper #71: Shake it! http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid33_gci858609,00.html - Oops! True IT blooper #69: Send in the clowns http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid33_gci855973,00.html - Oops! True IT blooper #74: Heads roll http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid33_gci860372,00.html >> CLICK to read and rate all of this round's contenders! http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid33_tax292236_idx0,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DISK DEFRAGMENTATION FUNDAMENTALS AND BEYOND | Exclusive Article Everyone knows that regularly scheduled hard drive defragmentations are a good thing -- like puppy dogs and kittens. For the most part, however, the majority of the understanding ends right then and there. In an attempt to help our users grasp some of the more fundamental concepts of defragmentation, this two-part article features a package of recently and frequently asked user questions. >> CLICK for the full article... http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci865465,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WINDOWS 2000 PASSWORD RETENTION PROBLEMS | Ask Jerry Honeycutt Dear Jerry: I have two mapped network drives on my PC using the Windows 2000 Professional operating system. The mapped drives are folders on a Windows 98 box. Each time I log on it asks for the passwords to these drives. Why won't Win2k retain these passwords once they are entered correctly? Thanks for your help with this. >> CLICK here for Jerry Honeycutt's expert response... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid504658_tax293054,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NEW MONTH, NEW CONTEST -- WIN A MOJO CD-MP3 PLAYER! | Tip Contest Well the weather outside is frightful, but the contest prize is so delightful. This month, enter your tips for a chance to win a win a TDK MOJO CD-MP3 player-- a portable CD-based MP3 player that for the first time offers full artist, song title, album and musical genre navigation plus on-the-go playlist creation. 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