Using local drives from remote connection session

First, open the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Communications -> Remote Desktop Connection). Then click on the Options button and go to the Local Resources tab. The bottom section of the tab is titled Local Devices, and there you will see a check box labeled Disk drives. Checking this box will automagically connect all disk drives on you local machine to the remote machine when you open the RDC.

When you get logged into the remote box, open My Computer and you'll see that all the drives (hard drives, floppy drives, CD/DVD ROM drives, and even mapped drives) will show up as mapped disk drives.

Go ahead and open one of the newly mapped drives and transfer files to your heart's content. Now, how easy and painless was that! You can use these mappings as local drives through session.

Reset XP Administrator Password in a couple of clicks

Follow the steps:

• Right click on the My computer icon on desktop, or from the start menu, and choose the manage.
• It opens the Computer Management window. choose the following one by one from the left side links:
• System Tools -Local Users and Groups - Users
• In right pane it shows the list of the Users. Right click on Administrator, and choose to set password.
• It asks for a confirmation, READ IT CAREFULLY, and proceed.
• next window asks for the new password. Reset and click on OK.
• Restart or get Log off to log in with the Administrator ID.

How do I know motherboard chipset of desktop ?

Getting the information about the desktop hardware is simple with a software utility belarc advisor. It scans the hardware, software and gives a comprehensive report about the system.


Download it at http://belarc.com/free_download.html

Widnows XP : Changing default language at login prompt

Multi lingual support in windows XP, sometime leads to confusing situation where you choose a regional language as default one and at login prompt your password is not accepted as language keyboard can not input proper password.

To set the proper default language for your input at login prompt you can switch the languages using shortcut keys ALT-LeftShift to toggle between language choices.

To set the default language choice use Regional language Options from Control Panel and choose Advanced tab select the language of your choice from Dropdown and tick the default user accout setting at bottom as shown in the image and apply the settings. System will ask you for restart and apply the setting confirm the action and proceed.

Configure SQL Server 2005 to allow remote connections

To configure SQL Server 2005 to allow remote connections, complete all the following steps:

• Enable remote connections on the instance of SQL Server that you want to connect to from a remote computer.
• Turn on the SQL Server Browser service.
• Configure the firewall to allow network traffic that is related to SQL Server and to the SQL Server Browser service.

Detailed steps here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914277