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Moving favourites? If you are anything like me you don’t like to keep your favourites, document, etc on the same drive as your operating system. I do this for one simple reason, when I re-install my OS I don’t need to stress about making sure I backup my favourites, etc before starting the re-install. With Windows Vista it is really easy to do, go into your profile, right click on the folder you want to move, click properties then click on the location tab and finally click move. Really easy, correct? Well no, you have 1 more thing you need to do in order to get this to work correctly. If you don’t do this you will get an annoying message whenever you try and save something to your favourites and in the end it wont save the new page.
Start by opening up an Administrator command prompt. Now browse to the path your favourites folder is located and type the following command: D:\>icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (oi)(ci)low What this command does is reset the permissions on the specified folder. Oi stands for Object Inherit, ci stands for Container inherit. For a full help on the icacls command open an administrator command prompt and type icacls. Allowing incoming ping and other network functions Microsoft have made some significant security enhancements with Windows Vista. If you are running Vista on your corporate desktops you will notice that pinging workstations is a nightmare because by default this is locked down. Here is an easy way to allow ping, change mtu settings and various other changes which you could easily deploy using a logon script. To allow incoming icmp do the following:Open an administrator command prompt and type:
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 This command will modify your ICMP setting to Allow inbound ICMP requests. Obviously there are various other options which you can look at by just typing:
netsh firewall set icmpsetting Lets say you need to change your MTU on your ipv4 interface! Start by typing:
netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces This command will show you all your available ipv4 subinterfaces. Not the Interface name, generally Local Area Connection or something similar to that. Now your network engineers have asked you to change your MTU on all workstations to say 1300…. Simple, execute the following command:
netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Local Area Connection" mtu=1300 A confirmation saying Ok means the setting has been changed. Again, this command can be run via a startup script quite simply! |
