ben.hamilton.id.au » network http://ben.hamilton.id.au Getting your act together with CRM Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:48:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Network Connection control panel applet http://ben.hamilton.id.au/microsoft/network-connection-control-panel-applet http://ben.hamilton.id.au/microsoft/network-connection-control-panel-applet#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:00:55 +0000 Ben Hamilton http://ben.hamilton.id.au/?p=145 Quick tip on getting the Network Connections control panel applet, do one of the following:

  • WIN+R, ncpa.cpl<enter>
  • CTRL-SHIFT-ESC, Applications, File, New Task, ncpa.cpl <enter>

This will give you quick access to changing network settings, useful if you have no mouse… as per a workstation I’m working on right now.

]]> http://ben.hamilton.id.au/microsoft/network-connection-control-panel-applet/feed 0 How to: shortcut to Network Connection for Vista http://ben.hamilton.id.au/microsoft/how-to-shortcut-to-network-connection-for-vista http://ben.hamilton.id.au/microsoft/how-to-shortcut-to-network-connection-for-vista#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:59:24 +0000 Ben Hamilton http://ben.hamilton.id.au/?p=31 One of the things that has irked me about Vista has been how hard (read how many clicks it takes) to get to the Network Connections in Vista. Thus here is how to create a shortcut to take you straight there.

Right click on your desktop | New | Shortcut |
explorer.exe ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
| Next | enter an appropriate name like Network Connections | Finish and bingo, you now have a shortcut to take you straight there.

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RDP doesn’t by default redirect non COM/LPT/USB ports – i.e. an IP port.

Thankfully, a simple registry edit noted in MS KB 302361 makes it easy to tell XP to redirect other ports.

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If anyone has used these tweaks, I’d like to hear what your experience has been.

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