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This article talks about Windows XP and all the new features it brings along with it. Microsoft has really introduced a powerful new operating system which brings lots of flexibility and ease of use to the user. It also at the same time is an extremely reliable and sturdy operating system for both the average and the excessive user. In this article we start by talking about the requirements XP needs for optimum operation and how we can meet those requirements. We also talk about the bits and pieces of installing, upgrading and migrating user settings. We also highlight the new powerful features in Windows XP installation like unattended installations and remote installations. Microsoft also aims to target the home market with this new operating system and has included several new features such as user account management and group’s management at a much easier GUI level. Yet it remains the same reliable operating system if not even better for setting security, group security and domain security policies. Microsoft also includes several new features in terms of auditing and generating a lot of reports in logs for the administrative user. We also talk about the Windows installer included in this new operating system which helps remove code clutter and in turn provides us with a more stable operating system than earlier releases. We also see a significant improvement in user interface and options with a greater ease-of-use for the average day user and options like multilingual support which target the corporate environment. Windows XP also takes hardware support and installation to a new level with its new plug-and-play features an extremely good compatibility with mobile hardware. We then discuss the Revolutionary new NTFS file system on which Windows XP runs and all its new advantages over the old FAT and FAT32 file systems. Windows XP also gives us a good Networking set up and troubleshooting environment with new features like off-line folder sharing and resource management. Remote connectivity has become a much achievable target with the launch of Windows XP giving the telecommuter the flexibility to work from home. We finally talk about how this new operating system stands up to its older legacy brothers in terms of performance, optimization, recovery, back up and other services. All in all Microsoft has definitely released a powerful beast of an operating system onto the consumers and it is up to us to realize and utilize Windows XP at its full potential.

Meeting Minimum XP Requirements:

Microsoft Win XP minimum requirements can be classified into various categories. The most important requirement is the minimum processor power needed, which is set to 233 MHz by Microsoft. I personally do not agree with such low standards since the cost of processors is dropping fast and it is the biggest driver for a machines performance factor. A minimum of 300 MHz is what I would recommend on the lowest level. The control terminal investigated in this report is up to the benchmark or just above average requirements for the user. The processor is a 2. 5 GHz Pentium 4 and is performing at an optimal rate. Win XP pro does support multi processor support, but is not necessary in this scenario. The next requirement brought to my attention is the amount of RAM Microsoft recommends for minimum requirements for Win XP Pro to operate is 64MB, which is clearly too low according to current standards. However, Microsoft does state a serious lack of Win XP pro function availability while using 64MB of RAM. An example of this would be disabled Fast user switching during this mode. I personally recommend a minimum of 256MB for any machine with average performance requirements running Win XP Pro. The control machine undertaken in this report has excellent RAM support with 1GB of available RAM. The RAM level in this machine takes a load of the processor as well and at the same time provides excellent performance for heavy multi usage of various software’s in the market. The hard drive requirements for Microsoft have been ever increasing with new releases of operating systems and Win XP pro requires a minimum of 1. 5GB of hard drive space. This higher increase can be accounted for bigger operating systems with more included in them, for e. g. Win XP pro includes a several features like media support for writing to CD media and also a built in firewall. The control machine does a pretty good job of satisfying these hard drive requirements with a 120GB primary (Master) hard drive and another 120GB secondary (Slave) hard drive. However there are some flaws in this implementation which are highlighted in the backup section of the report. One advantage of having two hard drives is clear that the paging file can be placed on a separate hard drive for better and faster performance. The control machine also exceeds the display requirements of Win XP. Microsoft has stepped up the bar with this release and has made 800 x 600 a minimum display requirement for this operating system and a lot of video drives will not let you shift below this resolution. The control machine had capabilities above this with display potential up to 1600 x 1200. Win XP Pro also recommends setup floppies or bootable CD standards for repair and reinstall, which is also met by the control machine. However I personally recommend bootable CD’s to setup floppies which are more prone to failure of a long period of time. A better way would also be image backups and image installs which are discussed later in this report. The BIOS is ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) capable, which enables power management features and shut down through HAL (Hardware abstraction Layer) installation. Win XP pro has a lot of graphical user features which can only be utilized through a good graphics card. The control unit in this audit has a good graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated graphics memory for exploiting these features.

Installing Windows XP:

I would like to bring to notice some installation features available from Microsoft during a windows install. The text mode option is enabled during a clean install and gives us the ability to press the F5 key to choose a HAL enable BIOS from the menu. This is critical for an individual or an organization which wants to enable the feature of auto power off. The BIOS has to HAL capable in order to use this feature. It is always recommended to update the BIOS to HAL capability before installing Win XP. Changing BIOS after installing Win XP has some serious risks of resulting in an unbootable OS and should not be attempted without proper back up of data. Microsoft advertises the F6 option during this to install any SCSI/RAID adapters. You can also turn of ACPI by pressing F7 to get a HAL that is not ACPI capable. ACPI can interfere with some features on the machine, for e. g. if the machine is a server type auto shut down would not be really a good feature to implement. The rest of the process is old style mode where you can create and delete partitions on your hard drive. There is also the option of choosing between NTFS and FAT32. However I would recommend NTFS, if your hard drive is over 32GB NTFS is the only choice for you. Windows XP does all the hard work and jumps into the GUI mode installation and then asks the user for information like the windows key, name and regional settings. The most important thing is setting the windows administrator password and writing it down and keeping it somewhere safe. It also asks for computer names and network configuration and also asks for whether you are in a domain environment or a workgroup environment and our IP settings. NetBEUI has been disabled in this version of Microsoft operating system. You can also enter the hard drive for file access during this installation by pressing Shift+F10. This enables you to move files across the hard drives, access files you need and even install drivers for new hardware during installation. For people who want the old style installation you can press Shift+F11 for the old style wizard settings. Microsoft has also implemented dynamic update which means that as long as you have an internet connection it will try to connect and try to download all the updates needed before your machine is up and running. It will also try to install new device drivers, as long as the manufacturer has his drivers windows logo certified. However dynamic update is only available for updated installs and is not available on clean installs. Microsoft also enables you implement your own dynamic update sites to prevent clogging of bandwidth in a corporate environment for machines searching for updates through the Microsoft’s website. The admin can link to windows update corporate site and download all the updates and package them together and put it up on a web server for the staff to install. A switch can be installed inside the setting of the answer file for downloading from these installs. Another feature is windows product activation which does not exist for the volume license user where the same media kit is going to be used for multiple installs. However retail and OEM licenses require windows product activation by creating a hash of your computer depending upon several features like hardware. Windows product activation can also be done in the answer file and the information sent through HTTP or HTTPS and Microsoft’s minimal requirement is that reactivation is required after changing 3-4 pieces of hardware on your computer.

Upgrading Windows XP:

Most administrators do not have the luxury to make a clean install because there are a lot of software and data installed on the current operating system. The biggest drawback to this is that all the legacy code and baggage in the old operating system will be carried over to the new operating system. An upgrade is possible from Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000 and Windows NT 4. 0 with SP6. However the server class cannot be upgraded from windows 2000 professional. You cannot upgrade from Windows 95 or Windows 3. x. A compatibility check should always be made before upgrading to the new OS. Check using the switch (-checkupgradeonly) for hardware report on compatible hardware on the machine to install windows XP. If you’re running Windows NT 4. 0 with fault tolerance and volume sets the drives are going to be inaccessible once you install XP since it does not support fault tolerance or volume sets. Microsoft does give you an easy way to use the key FTONLINE to bring the fault tolerant set online to backup the information or recreate a volume set or striped volumes and get that information back. However you cannot create fault tolerant drives with Win XP. In a case of serious error you can always roll back the upgrade. This feature can be accessed from the “Add Remove Programs” in the Control Panel. However the biggest drawback is that once you change from FAT32 to NTFS you cannot go back to uninstall the upgrade and get your old operating system running. The install procedure is pretty much the same as the once we encountered on a clean install without the headache of drive partitioning. It even tries to download updates (Dynamic Update) if an internet connection is detected. The software and regional settings and other user settings are preserved on the computer. The upgrade does come with different view screens after the install. Views change with the kind of environment you are running in for e. g. a domain environment the user gets to see the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen whereas the user gets to see the welcome screen in a workgroup environment.

Migrating User Settings:

User settings are an extremely important feature needed in a corporate environment to preserve the same look for a user. The file and transfer settings wizard comes to our rescue down to the last solitaire icon on the users computer. File and transfer settings transfer transfers files in four categories. The first category is appearance which includes color schemes, sounds and others. Second, it also keeps internet settings like your favorites and your internet security settings. Third, it also backs up all your account settings like all your e-mail accounts and all the internet addresses stored in your machine through outlook. Finally it even transfer the settings for installed software’s like Microsoft office and even third party software’s like adobe. However the drawback is that the required software’s should be installed before their settings can be reapplied to the new operating system. The File and Transfer settings wizard can be reached through the windows CD by accessing the icon “Perform Additional Task”. The process is simple and visually guided. It gives you the option to choose just files or both files and settings and transfer all the required files through a direct cable, floppies/media or network. This can also be used from XP to XP machines, in a case of customizing a brand new machine to industry standards. However this is should be used for only for small offices or a very small office. A better version of this for large offices is user state migration tool for scripting mass XP migration of files. The user state migration tool is made up of several tools once of which is scanstate. exe which includes files like migapp. inf, migsys. inf, miguser. inf and sysfiles. inf and you can change these files as you please. A simple illustration would be to access the migapp. inf file, put in the settings you need and put in the files you need to transfer and run scanstate. exe on every computer. The new machine would run a different program loadstate. exe which will unpack the file and load those settings. However like in file transfer settings this cannot transfer application and only settings to applications for e. g. it will not install adobe acrobat on your computer and then transfer its settings. If an application is not detected on the computer the settings for it will not be used. This application can be accessed in the following directory “CD:VALUEADDMSFTUSMT”. This ability is completely scriptable so an administrator can send these as e-mail messages to all the users and does not have to present at all the machines to run this.

Unattended Installation:

Microsoft also supplies us with tools for unattended installation which is a great feature for network administrators working in large corporate environment. This feature saves the tedious task of sitting down at each computer and installing Windows XP on each one of them. Unattended installation is made possible through a tool called the Setup Manager which links to the file unattend. txt which makes it possible answer all the questions which Win XP is going to ask us during the process of installation. A simple way to implement this is to drop all the required information for setup in the unattend. txt and drop this file in a floppy disk during the installation process or script this file inside if you are setting up through an image. There is one drawback to this since the each computer requires some unique information like computer name and IP addresses. This can be handled through a UDF file which is the unique database file. IP addresses on the other hand can be handled through DHCP and other processes. If you are booting off an image, this can be achieved by scripting the winnt32 file. The command line should read like this winnt32 /s: source path /u: unattend. txt /udf: udf path. However, if booting of a CD then this file should be placed inside the floppy disk with the name winnt. sif. This feature is again hidden inside the Win XP and can be accessed through the SUPPORT/TOOLS/ path and then by extracting the deploy. cab file. This file had to be extracted and will then reveal all the tools you require to deploy and unattended installation of Win XP. There are also three very helpful reference files inside this folder which give you a lot of information of using these tools. The setup manager tool a GUI tool which guides you through setting up the process of creating the uanttend. txt and the unique database file. It follows the simple procedure of asking questions starting from the organization and user name, Win XP key (This is the most important feature and has to entered correctly otherwise the installation would not take place), workspace or domain settings, regional and internet settings, language and time zone settings, computer names and even external commands to start up other installations for e. g. installing Microsoft office after Win XP install. This setup manager also gives us the options of several types of install like GUI installation, read only installation (user can see everything but cannot change anything) and others. You do not have to create this unattned. txt file from scratch for each terminal and can modify this file as per your needs for every other user. However this does become extremely cumbersome for large environments and the headache of creating a unattned. txt file for each user in a larger corporate working area. Microsoft does have its answer to that which is called the sysprep tool or the system preparation tool which gives us the ability to roll out clones of operating systems on each machine. This does give the network administrator the ability to somewhat use a cookie cutter style to roll out machines with preinstalled applications and operating systems customized before the mass installation procedure. The problem however can arise in the security identifiers (SID) that Microsoft uses to identify each machine and unique to that machine. You can use cloning tools to roll out these clones but you still have to use sysprep to authenticate support. Microsoft’s strips those SID’s out and repacks them so when the user sits down on the brand new machine he has to enter some information for the machine to get going. The applications are installed in the background though, but its Microsoft’s way of making sure that each machine has a unique SID after installation. Administrators are advised to run the latest third party cloning facilities to achieve the optimum results and then use sysprep to repack the machine as a brand new one for the SID’s to work safely and in accordance to Microsoft. However you have to be extremely careful before rolling out clones since they are very hardware specific, so your terminals should have identical HAL’s, mass storage device controllers and ACPI support. VAR’s (Value added resellers) should use the –factory mode switch to install and reconfigure the machine as per according to their requirements. This is also known as the audit mode and the machine can resealed after this by running sysprep again with a –reseal switch. This can also be done automatically using the file WINBOM. INI.

Remote Installation Services:

A remote Installation service gives us the power to install Win XP over the network. Microsoft uses a PXE (Preboot Execution environment) to achieve this and the setback is that you’re network card should be PXE certified. However, Microsoft also gives some hope to some left behind by giving us the option of using boot disks for people who do not have PXE certified network cards but, there always is setback and this time it’s that this feature is supported by only very specific network cards. Unfortunately, if you’re network card does not belong to any one of these classes you are out of luck and cannot use this feature. The basic way to setup is to connect to a RIS sever (Remote Installation server). Once you are connected to the RIS server there are three ways to connect and install Win XP. The first one is a simple installation where you download and run an image of Win XP CD. The second process is a scripted installation by creating an answer file and achieving an unattended installation. The final and the most powerful is the System image which uses a tool RIPrep (Remote Installation Preparation tool). This allows us to create an image with all the customized applications installed on them and then transfer that image to all the required machines. RIS requires an active directory environment with integrated DNS built it. The RIS server must be setup in the active directory. Most administrators would dedicate a separate sever for this process. Microsoft also states that the RIS partition should a separate one and should not a boot or system partition, so you would have to throw in a spare hard drive and drop this image on it. Also, the partition must be an NTFS. RIS installation utility and RIS preparation utility will allow you to put the different images on the server. The process then requires the Win XP CD and copies the I386 directory on the server and you can then choose to scripted installs or simple installs after that. The RIS uses single instance storage which means that it stores only one copy of each file when you upload different images on the server. This result’s in saving a lot of space on the server as well but this makes another reason the put this on a dedicated server and once all this configured you can put access levels on the images to allow users restricted access so that they cannot install any image they like. End users will boot from the network and boot from the PXE network card or PXE floppy disk and it asks them to log on and authenticate themselves to the domain server and then give them choices of installation images. In a multi-domain environment the administrators will be required to set up these RIS servers on each domain. Similar drawbacks exist on hardware compatibility. There are limited allowable differences in hardware on the machines but the HAL’s must be identical and as well the hard drives should be equal or larger in size. PXE book disks will work only on limited NIC cards so laptop users with PCMCIA are out of luck. Also remote installation can only be done on C drives and segregations on drives don’t allow the service to work.

Installation Troubleshooting:

Troubleshooting is always an enemy an administrator has had to face during his work. Even though Win XP is a quite sturdy operating system, there is a slight chance that you will run into problems during installation. The first step would be to check the hardware compatibility and hardware health. Most the time the problems I have encountered on Win XP have been due to bad hardware. There is no guarantee that devices on Windows 2000 will work on Windows XP. A first step is to install Windows XP with minimum hardware and then drop in extra hardware components after the install. That will allow you to isolate the bad or incompatible piece of hardware. You can also access the Microsoft’s website access the hardware compatibility listing. You should also check if the BIOS is ACPI compatible as described earlier.

User Accounts:

Windows XP requires user accounts to operate on it. It is based on the Windows NT kernel formula. Every user on Windows XP needs a user account. A big advantage of having user accounts is to be able to customize Win XP according to your environment. Windows XP can operate in a workgroup environment or an active directory domain. Windows XP also provides us with built in user accounts. The most powerful of all is the administrator account and time and time again it has been said to not do day to day tasks logged on as the administrator. The control machine in this case is at a serious threat since the only user account present on this machine is the administrator account and is not password protected. This is serious threat since this user has complete control for e. g. format a drive even by accident. The other account is the guest account which is open for users to access the machine but not giving it the power to corrupt or mess with the installed programs. A workgroup environment is good for a small corporate network but the biggest drawback is the each terminal should have a user account for that user on that machine, since Windows XP authenticates user accounts. However, domain environment has a central storage of all accounts which reduces overhead and makes it easy to add new accounts and terminals. In a domain environment if there is one user account, you can use that account to log on to any machine in the local domain. User accounts in a workgroup can be maintained through user accounts in the control panel. By default user accounts in Windows XP does not need a password but the administrator can change these default settings. Microsoft has also installed a feature known as “prevent forgotten password” where through the administrator account you can create a floppy disk with your password stored on it for recovery. However, this floppy disk should be safeguarded, since it can be a security loop hole to the entire network. In a domain environment you must log on as a member of the administrator’s group to create and delete user accounts. However, in a domain environment you have to add domain users to the local group to grant them access to the machines in that group using that user account. The concept is a little different, since domain user accounts should be granted access to a local group and are then able to log on to any machine in that group using that domain account, whereas each computer in a domain environment can also have local user accounts specific to that machine and only accessible through it.

Group Accounts:

Groups are a boon to an administrator in settings permissions. This allows us to take users and combine them to manage resources. Local groups allow us to set permissions to a group and have it trickle down on to the members of that group, local groups existing on each machine that give us this ability. Windows XP also gives us some built in groups like the administrator’s group and the users group. Local groups however have authority on that local machine. Microsoft’s management console allows us to create, delete and manage groups. A user can be a member of multiple groups so that allows the user to have a combination of most permissible abilities. However, deny always overrides an allow so if a user is denied a permission in one group that overrides that permission in all his member groups. There are several built in groups like administrator’s, backup operators, guest, network configuration, power users, remote desktop users and help users group. The name pretty much defines most of these groups. Most of the members belong to the power users group which gives them the opportunity to install applications and do day to day tasks. However there are some restrictions placed on this group for e. g. they cannot access other user’s files and cannot format hard drives or change user group settings and other user’s accounts. There are also some system groups which are used by Windows XP itself to perform certain tasks. The operating system handles these groups and you do not need to manage these groups. One such group is the “everyone group” which explains itself of how it includes everyone. If you want to give wide open access to computer you can grant a user as a member of the “everyone group”. However, this does include anonymous access so a user cannot log on using anonymous access. There are also other system groups like authenticated users which have to proved themselves worthy to log on to the system and creator/owner groups. There are also network and interactive groups which differentiate on the basis of your location. Network group classifies users who log on using a network whereas interactive users are users who actually sit down at the machine to log on. Creating and managing user groups can be achieved through the Microsoft management console. This saves a lot of headache at the domain level since the domain administrator can create a domain level group in the domain environment. The local administrator can then add that domain level group into the local machine group he just created and this gives the members of that group immediate access to that machine.

Logging onto Windows:

Logging on Windows XP is different from a workgroup to a domain environment. Microsoft has finally stepped away from the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination to log onto to Windows. In a workgroup environment the user is greeted with a welcome screen, however the old style log on can be made compulsory in a workgroup environment by the administrator. In a domain environment the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen in the default and you cannot get away without it. In a workgroup setting you can disable the welcome screen but this also switches off the fast user switching option. Fast user switching is available only in a workgroup setting targeted towards a home environment. This enables multiple users to run their sessions on the same terminal without closing the other person’s session or let a user log on without logging another user off. This uses terminal services made available to us by Microsoft. There is at least a 128MB memory requirement needed for using this service. You can use fast user switching by using the Windows key + L, but you require the welcome screen switched on for this. You can also see what accounts are currently logged on by using the task manager and switching to the users tab which will show you all the current users logged on and it show which user is currently active and which are disconnected. Troubleshooting user accounts can be a simple task. Be sure to check if passwords are correct and caps lock is not turned on and also if your account has not been disabled. You can also turn on the guest account as a last resort to have limited access. This can be a security loop hole so most administrators avoid it. In a domain environment XP caches user log on information so you as an administrator can turn on a feature which prevents a user from logging on if the domain controller is down. You can prevent this by accessing the security policies from the administrative tools from the control panel. This gives you an option of changing the number of cached logon’s to zero which will prevent a user from logging on if the domain controller is down. Changes such as this require the user to be a member of the administrative group and also these security policies can be overridden by policies set on the domain level.

User Profiles:

User profiles in Windows XP give the user the power to maintain his/her own settings for each user. This is just a group of files personal to that user and HKCU portion of the registry. All the user profiles and the default profiles are found in the folder Documents and Settings. However this is only in a case of a clean install of Windows XP, but when we upgrade from Windows NT the user profiles are found in the system root directory. Profiles are specific to each machine, so if a user has an account on ten different machines his user profile on each machine will and local and different. This exception in this case can be a roaming user profile where the user roams around from one terminal to another. In this case the user can log on to any machine and his user profile is downloaded at the terminal he sits down on and he can make changes to his/her profile and when he logs off those changes are saved on to the active directory. In order to set up this user profile the administrator must create a user account and put a UNC (Universal naming convention for e. g. domainnamefoldername%username%) tab in the profile tab of the user in the active directory. However, the trick is to give proper permissions to directory where the user profiles are saved in order for the user to access his/her profile; otherwise the user will receive a default profile. This profile is also cached locally incase the roaming profile is not available or the profile server goes down the user can still log on using the locally stored profile. However, incase the user logs onto multiple terminals the profile from which he logs on last will the last profile updated. This can also be made ad a mandatory profile for e. g. in kiosk environment where you want the user to have the exact same profile whenever he/she logs on. You can do this by going into the user profile and renaming a file ntuser. dat to ntuser. man and no changes will be saved when the user logs off so he/she will get the same default profile when he/she logs back on.

Local Security Policy:

Local security policies give the administrator several measures to maintain security in the workgroup. There are three different types of policies like auditing, user rights and security settings. There are also account policies which include password policies and account lockout policies. Password policies enable us to enforce password laws where the administrator can set password length, history, age and even complexity for secure environments. Account lockout policies prevent hackers from constantly trying to log on to the system using brute force like all combinations of passwords. Local policies give us a variety of features. One section is user rights assignments where the administrator can assign specific policies to specific users and groups which allow different users to have different powers and rights on the network and the machine. Auditing properties enable us to generate reports on how the system is performing to be clear who is trying to do what on the machine or the network. Microsoft does make our work easier by giving us preconfigured security templates. These are groups of settings for various scenarios. These can be accessed through a bunch of . inf files provided by Microsoft and you can implement these by either importing the . inf file into the group or by using the Microsoft security configuration and analysis snap-in. These can be applied to a local machine or a group and are easy to create through the MMC. The preconditions are to first create a snap-in and add the security policies and security configuration and templates modules in it and then create a database and then import a security template into it. Then you can compare and analyze or even set your computer to these configurations. You can also save these security templates as shortcuts for access to each machines security settings.

Group Policies:

The main function of group policies is to implement restrictions on their computer to prevent unintentional mess up of the OS on the computer. In a workgroup background you can implement local group policies which are specific to that local machine only and to the users on that machine, so in order to implement this on the entire workgroup you will have to implement this locally on each machine which can become a headache. However, you can have remote shortcuts to each desktop’s MMC (focus MMC on remote machines) on your computer and then can implement those policies through this procedure. In a domain setting you need to implement these policies through the organizational units in active directory on the active directory server. By default group polices have a refresh period after which group policies will be downloaded but you can run a GPUPDATE to refresh and implement new group policies immediately. Group policies are accessed through the same way as local policies by adding the snap-in of group policies. You can create group policies on that local machine or connect to remote machine by clicking the browse icon, but you need to have administrative rights on each machine and also on that machine. As ever domain policies override local computer policies.

Auditing Windows XP:

As a network administrator one of the main tasks is to make sure that the resources are being used the way they are used or not being used they should not be. Auditing in Windows XP is just the feature which helps us track these key events. This can be used to track successful or failed system events. It helps the administrator choose between either tracking things being done correctly or things not being done correctly. The most important factor is file access and account logon. One drawback of auditing is that it should be turned on locally on each machine, since it cannot be enabled on a domain basis. Auditing should not be turned on in the entire domain since it does take a performance hit on the system. An example would be the Audit object failures which tracks failures or successes of files and printers. Enabling this would not turn on auditing on the file, in order to that you need to go to the properties of the folder or files you want to audit. Head to the security tab, if you cannot see the security tab this either means that simple file sharing is turned on or that your drive is based on FAT32 partitioning style. You need to have a NTFS partition style and simple file sharing tuned off for this security tab to show up. However, in a domain environment simple file sharing is turned of by default. Once you can see the security tab hit the advanced tab and select the auditing tab and add the user or the group you would like to audit. Auditing reports can be seen through the event viewer which can be located through control panel and then in administrative tools. Finally the key thing to remember about auditing is that it has to be turned on at two separate places, once in the local security policies and second at the resource you want to audit like a file or a printer.

Windows Installer:

If you install an application on Windows XP you are most probably using the Windows Installer. Microsoft started this through Windows 200o to prevent other applications from just installing themselves and breaking and clobbering other DLL’s. There are also problems during uninstall where the program would take away a critical Windows component and then your system might not boot. This new service is integrated into the operating system to make the programs well behaved. Windows Installer introduces package files (. msi) which are installation files on the CD itself. There are a lot of advantages to using the Windows Installer, for e. g. the ability to self-heal in a case where the program detects that a DLL is corrupt or missing and then can heal itself by pulling that file back from the source CD or network. There is also a rollback capability where something terrible happens during the installation, Windows Installer makes sure to take snapshots of the system before and after the installation. In case of failure it rollback’s the system to the state how it was before. There is also on-demand installation where you can install features as needed and required later on by the system. These can be obtained from the source on either a media format like a CD or on the network. Source resiliency also enables us to define several source targets where you can connect and download the files you need incase one source is corrupted. You can publish application in a domain setting and then can assign a group or users who can connect to download and install this application. Also, you can assign applications to users or groups where the application doesn’t really install itself but it places a link or a shortcut of that application on that terminal for that user to access it and when the user tries to access it the first time it goes ahead and installs itself using the Windows Installation services. This also enables us to have two different versions of the same program using two different DLL’s which can coexist on the same terminal in the same hard drive. MSIEXEC is the command prompt installer which is the core of the Windows Installer. There are several flags to this command and you can run this from the command line to install those problematic applications. One of the most important flags is the /f which can be used to repair bad installations and even find corrupt DLL files.

User Interface:

Windows XP gives the average user a lot of power with the ease to configure his/her user interface. Configuring the desktop is something you can do almost to an extreme in Windows XP. Standard desktop settings remain the same as the ability to change wallpapers, colors and sounds. There are also themes and skins which can change the entire look the Windows XP and work as API’s which run on the machine and not any third party tools you need to get. Simple day to day tasks have been made a lot easier with a folder and file options available on the left hand side of the windows explorer. The start menu has become more powerful than it was before. It also incorporates the ability to customize itself as per your program usability. However for you old school people Windows XP does give you the option of switching to the old style desktop or the classic desktop. All you have to do is right-click and go to properties and change the theme to Windows classic to obtain the old style Windows look. The appearance tab helps the user pick a color scheme they like best or you could also enter advanced mode and pick colors for each part yourself. The effects tab is the most underused tab which gives the user the ability to get cleaner fonts and even remove and set animations on your windows. Most appearances are customizable in Windows XP and Microsoft’s is trying real hard towards a goal to please every user type.

Interface Options:

Microsoft has added a lot interface options for users who otherwise have problems using the computer. One is accessibility services where Microsoft has included several options like the sticky keys, filter keys or toggle keys and even sounds and onscreen keyboard. There is also a narrator which gives us text to speech for the visually challenged. There is also the magnifier which is also a great asset. An easy way to access the narrator, magnifier and the onscreen keyboard is pressing the Windows key + U. Multilingual support has also been included in Windows XP just like as in Windows 2000. However, not all applications support this but you can almost enable this all API’s. All that is required is to head to the regional settings in the control panel and install the language you want to work with the remap the keyboard accordingly and you’re done. One drawback is that for other users to use a document created in this language they must have the same language settings installed on their computer. You can even change entire interface of the computer into another language by installing support for that language. This servers as a strategic advantage for global organizations which operate in different regions in terms of saving space in terms of storing a file in different languages since multi language support enables us to store only one copy of the file and have it available in different languages.

Hardware Installation:

Windows XP supports plug and play feature where you can just plug in devices and it will detect them automatically without any installations. One of the most important advantages of this feature is that signed drivers are installed automatically without prompting. However, non plug and play devices require manual installation. This saves a lot of headache to the administrator when it comes to installing different pieces of hardware. The user needs to have the administrative privileges to install these hardware’s and drivers. These can be maintained to the device manager which can be accessed from right clicking my computers icon. Microsoft is pushing to wears a new setting known as driver signing. This enables Microsoft to see what drivers are installed on the system. In a case of an unsigned driver the user is warned about this before installing it but he/she can still choose to go ahead or not go ahead with it. Vendors have to actively pursue to get their drivers signed by Microsoft to achieve a signed driver rating. In a case of an unsigned driver Microsoft raises a flag which warns the user about the unsigned driver. This can raises several issues in a network for the administrator to handle where people bring in their own USB devices to plug in to their systems and then can raise several flags and incompatibilities in the environment. The administrator can handle this situation by disabling and blocking the installation of unsigned drivers. One of the drawbacks in windows 2000 was the ability for a user to modify the registry keys and install an unsigned driver and then change back the keys after the installation. This loop hole has been fixed by Microsoft and the user is not given the ability to change registry keys and hence he cannot install unsigned drivers without administrative permission. One of the other features that will is the facility of the drivers or to even roll back drivers incase of a mishap. Updating device drivers still requires the user to have administrative privileges. However updating device drivers is one of the most frequent causes of system crash. This is where the ability of rollback kicks in where Windows XP maintains copies of older versions of your driver which you can kick back to incase of an update failure. There is also something known as the last good option which should be a last resort in case of a safe boot. Driver signing gives us the options to free install, warn or block drivers that are unsigned. A normal user can always go to a much stricter option like if the administrator has selected warn the normal user can choose block, however he/she cannot choose to ignore it.

Hardware Support:

Windows XP supports most kinds of hardware these days. You can pretty much take anything in the market and it will be supported by Windows XP. Windows XP even supports smartcard operations fresh out of the box. One of the coolest features is the ability to hook up to twelve display devices on to one machine. As a matter of fact you can link up to ten display devices onto one single terminal. There’s also dual head technology incorporated into Windows XP which gives the user power to connect multiple monitors with a single video card adapter, for e. g. in case of a laptop you can connect it to monitor and have it perform different from the screen on your laptop or as an extension to the screen on your laptop. Windows XP supports Directx and OpenGL which are graphics technologies or graphics API’s. Microsoft is offering this towards the gaming market where they have finally been able to run Directx on the NT core for the games to perform an optimum level. Another Windows XP service included out of the box is faxed support . This practically will meet most users average day to day tasks of receiving and sending faxes. Fax support of course is not installed by default and the user has to install it through and remove windows components. As soon as you install facts aboard Windows XP creates a virtual printer through which it will send it to your faxes.

You can even have your terminal receive faxes through a virtual printer. Setting up fax services is pretty easy for the average user to configure. It does require a telephone number and other information. You can even set it up to auto print faxes or choose how you would like to be alerted. One of the directions most new hardware is trying to move this towards using USB and firewire (IEEE 1394) ports. These are plug and play hot swappable devices which you can connect and disconnect without having to install any drivers. One of the features of USB is that you can target USB root hub through device manager to allocate power to each hub. Another way to get out of this power drain is to use a self powered external hub which draws its power externally to function. You can even take a look at the universal host controller in device manager under the USB drop down menu to see the amount of bandwidth taken by each controller.

Mobile Computer Hardware:

Windows XP has a pretty good mobile hardware support. As more and more users switch from desktops to laptops Microsoft has increased its support and capabilities towards mobile hardware. One of the most important features is included support for ACPI which saves a lot of battery power on laptop machines. Applications can also request no power saving incase of server machine where applications need to keep running constantly. Dynamic docking and undocking creates separate profiles for docked and undocked mode. ACPI gives the capabilities of power management through power options available in control panel. Power management facilities give us the flexibility to maintain different power settings incase of desktops and laptops. Also it even creates different settings when the laptop is in docked mode and running on AC power and when in undocked mode and using battery juice. One of the power saving modes is the hibernation mode where the computer dumps its memory on the hard drive and shuts itself off and when you start it again it reloads its RAM from the hard drive. An easier way for an average user are built in power schemes given by Microsoft that help you mange your power settings better to get the maximum time out of your laptop. Windows XP also gives you the flexibility to set up UPS and adjust hibernation. In order to bring your computer to hibernate mode initiate a shit down sequence and then when the window pops up hold down the shift key to change the standby option to hibernate. Hibernate is much bigger power saver then standby, since standby still consumes a lot of power. You do need to log back on to the system after hibernation. Windows also has wireless support for Windows XP through Bluetooth (802. 11b) and Infrared technology built in to the operating system. Windows XP can detect and connect automatically to wireless networks using either an access point or an ad hoc ability (ad hoc ability connects multiple computers to each other without having to connect to an access point).

Storage Devices:

Windows XP hard disk support comes in two different flavors. The first one is the old style know as basic disks which include four primary partitions or three extended partitions and one extended partition. Microsoft has now implemented a new strategy know as volumes disks. You can have up to 200 volumes per driver, however Microsoft does recommend you to not go this high and has set a limit of at most 32 volumes per drive. If you plan to multiboot using this drive dynamic disks and dynamic volumes are only usable by Windows XP and Widows 2000. Applications don’t really have an issue with dynamic disks. One drawback is that laptop computer and removable storage cannot have dynamic disks since this is really used when there are multiple drives. You cannot mix dynamic and basic disks on one drive. On basic disk you can primary and extended partitions only and you cannot create fault-tolerance volumes or even span drives. Dynamic disks have this ability. The first step is a simple volume which can be NTFS, FAT or FAT32. The next step above this is a spanned volume used in a case of multiple hard drives where you can add more space to hard drive without adding another drive letter. Simple volumes can be extended to create spanned volumes but the kicker is that you cannot extend a system or boot volumes. The third case is a striped volume which is written on both drives which doubles your throughput on both drives. This in turn increases performance and also doubles your throughput on reading and writing. You can access these management tools by right clicking on My Computers and then selecting manage and choosing Disk management in the computer management window. It is very simple to convert a disk to a dynamic disk, the process involves right clicking on the disk icon itself on the left most side and choosing convert to dynamic disk. This renders it unusable by other operating systems since the partition table is rewritten. You can extend a simple volume by just right clicking and choosing extend volume and choose the desired size you would like to extend the volume to. Converting an existing basic setup to dynamic setup requires at least 1MB of unpartitioned space but vice versa is only possible through reformat. For users updating their system from other legacy system you need to use FTONLINE to bring your data online mount it and then wipe out your drives and bring your data back to the drives. It is not a long term solution for storage. There are also other removable storage media like CD’s floppies and USB hard drives. Windows XP has full support for burning CD’s included into the operating system. However, it’s not as advanced as other third party applications.

File Systems:

As a network administrator you need to know the kinds of file systems that are supported by Windows XP. NTFS is the new file system which has a lot more capabilities incorporated into it. The FAT file system is the universal file system, which has a lot of limitations which were overcome by FAT32. One of the biggest drawbacks was the cluster size in FAT, so for e. g. the bigger your drives got the bigger the cluster became so for a 1K file you would’ve used a 32K cluster and ended up wasting 31K space. This becomes a considerable waste when thinking in terms of gigabytes. FAT32 overcame this problem by introducing a 4K cluster, but still has a lot of limitations. NTFS has a lot of new features like compression, encryption and permissions. Users still using FAT or FAT32 systems on Windows XP can convert to NTFS by running a command from the prompt known as convert [driverletter]: /fs:ntfs. However, you cannot convert back to FAT or FAT32. In a case when you convert your boot drive it will convert on reboot. A backup is recommended to prevent data loss before running this command. In a case you have already started the process and haven’t backed up your data you can jump into registry editor using the regedit command and look up inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – system – CurrentControlSet – Control – Session Manager.

Inside here you will see boot execute. When you run this you will see the conversion process listed there and you can delete it to stop the conversion process. There are also other file systems maintenance tasks which most administrators like to do whenever they find time for e. g. disk defragmentation. The new feature in Windows XP is that you can schedule this defragmentation via the command line. Disk cleanup is also a pretty safe way that deletes cache files and other temp files stored on your computer. It even tells you of files which you haven’t used in a long time.

NTFS:

NTFS clearly has a lot of benefits compared to others like FAT and FAT32. NTFS is the default choice when you start from scratch. However, one difference is that formatting NTFS will set file security during installation which you do not get when you convert from FAT or FAT32. This can be securing access from critical system files which was not present in FAT and FAT32. Microsoft has introduced the quick format option during setup process. NTFS also introduces file and directory security settings which are very helpful in corporate environments. IT also gives us the abilities of quotas, compression and encryption. By default if the user is not in a domain environment then the sharing and NTFS permissions are combined into one. Simple file sharing is turned on in the tools folder option which disables the security tab from the properties of a folder or a file. This can be turned back on by just disabling simple file sharing. Windows XP creates a My documents and Shared Documents folder. You can make you My Documents folder private and even when you place a password on your user account then Windows asks you to privatize your entire files and folders. Shared Documents enables multiple users to share documents with each other. However, in a workgroup setting you can only make folder private in your user account. In order to disable this option you as an administrator need to turn off simple file sharing. In a domain environment this is turned off by default and security tab is available. Permissions granted to a user always add up as most permissible but deny always overrides other permissions. There is also inheritance which trickles down to the file level which means that file permissions override the folder permissions. However, you can always block inheritance and override a lower level permission with the higher one. Windows XP has also added a feature to view effective permissions on a file. These can be accessed through the effective permissions tab available in the security tab of a file or folder and by clicking the advanced tab. You can select the user or the group you want to view permissions on. NTFS utilizes the concept of ownership of file where the owner always has full control of the file they created; even after they are locked out they can take ownership of the file and give themselves access to it. Administrator can take ownership of any file available in the system, but so that this cannot be abused they cannot give ownership to someone else, they sure can give them permissions to view and modify but not ownership. This is a key concept of recovering files when a user has left the company or has been locked out from his files. Taking ownership is very easy, head to the security tab and click advanced tab and choose the owner tab and then you can add yourself back. Then you can go ahead and add yourself back into the file permissions to give you back full control. NTFS also gives us the ability to compress files on a case by case basis. Compression and decompression happen automatically. Compressing folders will also compress files and adding new files to it will also keep the new files compressed. Windows XP does highlight them with different color to mark them as compressed. Encryption and compression do not mix well in Windows XP. You can access encryption and compression through the properties and advanced tab and choosing between compression and encryption. Microsoft uses the EFS (Encrypting File Systems) for safeguarding files and folders. Encrypting a folder will encrypt all files inside the folder as well. The key is encryption is stronger than permissions because the data gets scrambled using certificates. This means that user who owns that certificates can only access that data. There is no longer the security hole where encrypted file transfer was not possible and data had to be decrypted for the other user to read it. Now when you give access to somebody else for your encrypted files he/she gets a copy of the certificate to decrypt those files. One drawback is that if you move files into an already encrypted folder it will not be encrypted, however the ones created will be. You can give access to another user of your encrypted file by adding them through the details tab available through the properties and advanced tabs. The catch is that the user should’ve have encrypted a file at least once to have a certificate available on the computer. This is needed by Windows XP since the first time you encrypt a file it issues you an encryption certificate. In a domain environment you must trust the server for delegation in order to encrypt files on the server. You can also use WebDAV for providing secure transport and storage to avoid trust for delegation.

EFS Recovery:

Recovering encrypted data can be made possible since Microsoft’s introduction of the DRA or the data recovery agent. This utilizes a special key which is tagged on to every file encrypted. In a domain setting the administrator is defaulted as the being the data recovery agent so there is always a back door for recovering encrypted files. In a workgroup environment there is no default data recovery agent, so you need to create a data recovery agent. The key is to create a DRA before any files get encrypted, since you won’t be able to recover files which were encrypted before that. The first things you need to do are access your security policies by heading into the local security policies and then into public key policies which will show you encrypting file systems. Making a DRA is a little tricky to begin with. Start by running the command prompt and running the cipher command as follows cipher /r:[filename]. This command will create your two recovery certificates, one is public key (. cer) and the other is private one (. pfx). It also asks you for a password to open your private keys. Once done you then right click on the encrypting file systems in the local security policy and add a new DRA and then browse to the recover file you just created and add that. Now, when any user encrypts a file you will be listed as a data recovery agent. You can also reset password for another user if he or she forgets it but this trashes that user’s certificate, so he/she will not be able to access files which were encrypted with the previous certificate before. This is where the DRA comes as a savior. In order to disable EFS you need to completely remove the encryption policy, it doesn’t just go away by removing the DRA. Disabling EFS is through accessing the encrypting file systems menu in the local security policies and right clicking to go to all tasks and then selecting delete policy. However, turning off EFS is not quite that easy in a workgroup environment. You can find more details about in recently published Microsoft’s documents.

Networking Setup and Troubleshooting:

Windows XP is very powerful operating system which includes a lot of features when it comes to networking. Windows XP is multi protocol ready and uses NWLink which is easily configured for simple file sharing. However, it also supports the universal TCP/IP protocol. The advantages are numerous and even a working copy to new IPv6 protocol for all you network wizards to play around with. NetBEUI support is not longer available as a standard but as a hidden add-on on the disk. Windows XP also gives us the ability to bridge different media types. The network connection box shows you one entry for each network connection available on your computer. Bridging them can be very easy by just selecting them all and right-clicking to select bridge connections. You can install other protocols like NetBEUI by clicking install and then by choosing “have disk” and browsing through the disk to install it. Windows XP has introduced an alternate configuration on TCP/IP settings where it kicks into the alternate configuration if the primary one is not obtained. This can be used to store two different connection settings for home and office for your laptop or in another applied scenario. Networking with Windows XP is not without its pitfalls. Networking troubleshooting in Windows XP begins at a basic level where the first thing the administrator should do is look if the cable is plugged in and the lights are blinking. You can then go ahead and type the net config redirector command which displays the entire current network configuration on your computer. You can even repair a connection by right clicking on the connection you want to fix and Windows XP then runs a lot of commands behind the hood to fix that connection. If this still doesn’t work you can then use the command “nets hint ip reset [logfile]”. In essence this tears the stack down all the way the base and rebuilds that TCP/IP connection or in other words reinstalling the connection. You can access the advanced settings by clicking advanced tab and then choosing advanced settings which shows you the bindings on that computer. Another command used is IPCONFIG with flags like /all, /renew, /flushdns and /registerdns. Other simple commands used are PING command for pinging IP addresses, TRACERT for tracing IP addresses, NBTSTAT –R to empty and reload name cache, NETSTAT for showing all the incoming and outgoing active connections and NETSTAT – R which shows you the routing table.

READ ‘Pt 2′ for more details.

Experience counts Wow goes much further than a simple computer game. Blizzard Entertainment launched the game way back in September 2001, and many people have been completely addicted to this amazing and fun interactive games online experience. World of Warcraft is not the first feature great game multiplayer online (MMORPG), but it has redefined what is MMORPG experience.

When you start to buy WoW accounts, you must create an account. This account lets you create your character and begin to venture into WoW. This characteristic affects how they interact with the environment WoW. different people have different experiences. It is this varied experience that makes the game so damn fun!

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Recently, I was looking for a gift for a young man of 16 years – her mother had said it was “in” video and computer games in particular, which go hand in hand with a handheld game.

Not having had much exposure in this market, I did it my business to learn everything I could about this very popular to make me wonder how I managed to live without the last years, somehow, after absorbing more information on this issue.

I did what I always do when I need information, I started with the Internet. As soon as I entered PlayStation Portable, which was immediately assaulted with thousands and thousands of sites to visit. Wow It was great (and here I always thought it was a beautiful 40-something, obviously I was missing critical information LOL). .

Now, where to start with all this success? “I know I wanted a game, so this is where I started, but soon turned entirely on the true story of the PlayStation Portable. For some reason, I was very surprised to discover that system has been around some form or another since 2004 or earlier. Naturally, the systems have become very sophisticated since then, but I was surprised how quickly developed around the concept and literally seized adults and youth.

As I moved through the video games available, I could not believe the level of sophistication involved in these. Clearly, gone are the days of Ms. Pac Man system, I must say, was very “hot” during my time.

Children love to play these games for the PlayStation Portable, I thought I found some to buy for me and I really enjoyed reading the list of titles under the Greatest Hits, “which were fun to browse.

As I read, I too was interested in bids for the Nintendo DS, which offers a good selection of games on its own made me an instant fan I found this offer “remakes” in some games that I knew in my youth! But apparently, Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable games are not interchangeable – now I wonder what I’ll buy games the son of my friend since I discovered that I like the titles of two companies (Back to the drawing board).

I think I’m getting old.

Recently, I was looking for a gift for a young man of 16 years – her mother had said it was “in” video and computer games in particular, which go hand in hand with a handheld game.

Not having had much exposure in this market, I did it my business to learn everything I could about this very popular to make me wonder how I managed to live without the last years, somehow, after absorbing more information on this issue.

I did what I always do when I need information, I started with the Internet. As soon as I entered PlayStation Portable, which was immediately assaulted with thousands and thousands of sites to visit. Wow It was great (and here I always thought it was a beautiful 40-something, obviously I was missing critical information LOL). .

Now, where to start with all this success? “I know I wanted a game, so this is where I started, but soon turned entirely on the true story of the PlayStation Portable. For some reason, I was very surprised to discover that system has been around some form or another since 2004 or earlier. Naturally, the systems have become very sophisticated since then, but I was surprised how quickly developed around the concept and literally seized adults and youth.

As I moved through the video games available, I could not believe the level of sophistication involved in these. Clearly, gone are the days of Ms. Pac Man system, I must say, was very “hot” during my time.

Children love to play these games for the PlayStation Portable, I thought I found some to buy for me and I really enjoyed reading the list of titles under the Greatest Hits, “which were fun to browse.

As I read, I too was interested in bids for the Nintendo DS, which offers a good selection of games on its own made me an instant fan I found this offer “remakes” in some games that I knew in my youth! But apparently, Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable games are not interchangeable – now I wonder what I’ll buy games the son of my friend since I discovered that I like the titles of two companies (Back to the drawing board).

I think I’m getting old.

Copyright (c) 2009 Nik Martin

So you want to be a singer. Dreaming of becoming a star after winning X Factor Well, I can tell you a little secret? Learn the song is just the beginning.

You’ll need a burning passion for a chance to sing the success of this company.

Music can have on your life. I should know, has been a passion of mine for over 30 years. But it is sad to note that not everyone has what it takes to win X Factor. Not everyone can be a star.

Hey you just might be what it takes to be the next “Big Thing”, but just in case you do not know, let test some alternatives.

Discovering one of the most real-life options available to a woman’s voice or a singer in the world of music.

HOLIDAY “good basis”

If you’re new to all this and considering a career in the music industry then HOLIDAY parks are a good place to start.

Resorts in the UK are big business at the time and most of the race’s biggest parks have complete production teams working for them. They just made some great stage production programs are fantastic and its a good place to start if you want an idea of how the entertainment industry in the United Kingdom.

If you just came from a college of arts and wants to start working immediately to something you like, then they are places of initiation.

These shows will be choreographed work of production and the content is generally very high quality.

You also have the opportunity to sing songs of their own. They often like to have a “pre-taxi. Then somebody made before the main event for the heating cabaret tour across the world, then enter the main event.

This could be a place for 10 minutes to be built in half an hour and is an excellent opportunity to learn from its staging. You can try several songs to see which work best and by the end of the season, you could have your own act ready to go.

Be prepared for long hours normally perform some normal activities. Things such as running programs or games and competitions to entertain children. But the essential ingredient to work on holiday parks is that you have to perform before a live audience in any way that almost every night.

The length of the season may vary from park to park but most of the largest parks in the beginning of the Semana Santa, and you can skip to the end of October.

This may be the exact address you want to enter, but first you beats stacking shelves or working a cash register! It can help you get a good solid base.

Right there in front of an audience to build your confidence and you can earn while you learn.

If you think your kids are spending too much time playing video games on their Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PC or PSP or Playstation Portable consoles then you may have a reason to be concerned, but not worried. Before you tell your child to put down the game remote and pick up a text book you should consider one fact and that is that there is a professional video game circuit out there with professional gamers who earn thousands, even millions of dollars.
South Korea has a genuine passion for playing video games. This is a video game obsessed nation. The electronic gaming events in this country can draw up to 100,000 spectators at a single event. Their cyber athletes make hundreds of thousands of dollars playing in tournaments that are televised nationwide. Some of them are so popular they cannot go out in public without body guards to shield them from adoring fans. They even date movie stars and get their faces on the covers of newspapers and magazines.
Recently there was an electronic gaming tournament held in Seoul, South Korea at Jamsil Indoor Stadium. This event was the equivalent of our Superbowl. The game of choice for this event was StarCraft, which is a web game that is played on PCs. This event was nationally televised and broadcast on the Internet. The audience of 1. 78 million who viewed it on television and online were glued to their seats as they watched the daylong event unfold. They came to watch the most popular gamer in their country strut his stuff.
His name is Lim Yo Hwan, he is 27 years old and he is the Mick Jagger of e-sports in South Korea. This young man has made quite a name for himself playing StarCraft, the only game that matters on the video game circuit in this country. His fans wanted to see him put on a show, and he did, winning the event easily with a take home prize of $20,000. Lim Yo Hwan has won many of these events in recent years and this has put his income in the six figure category. Not bad for playing video games.
The United States has some Superstar cyber athletes too who make a very good living on the electronic gaming circuit. The brightest star in this country is a 26 year old man named Johnathan Wendel, otherwise known to his fans as Fatal1ty, which is his screen name. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri but his reputation lives all over the world.
Johnathan became a professional gamer at the age of 19, and in the past seven years he has won 41 major eSports video game tournaments. He has won more electronic gaming competitions than anyone else in America. Johnathan has also done very well financially, winning over $450,000 in prize money.
Johnathan Wendel has traveled all over the world playing in video game tournaments. To date he has played on every continent except Antarctica. These tournaments have been held at some very interesting, unique and famous places including the Great Wall Of China and Red Square in Moscow, so the idea of holding one in Antarctica some day may be not be so far fetched.
Everywhere Johnathan goes he is swarmed by fans who just love the way he plays video games. All of his expenses are paid when he travels and he lives like a rock star. With world championships in five different video games, Johnathan is considered by most in his sport to be the best in the world. No other gamer has even come close to matching his accomplishments.
In November of 2006 Johnathan Wendel defeated his biggest nemesis and won the world championship for his fifth video game, PainKiller, and in doing so he took home a prize check for $150,000. He defeated the reigning world champion for that game, a 20 year old man from Holland that goes by the screen name Vo0.
Johnathan is becoming more and more popular every day as he continues to shine as a Superstar in the world of professional gamers. He is a force to be reckoned with in the Cyberathlete Professional League. He has recently launched a line of Fatal1ty products that include such things as mouse pads, headsets and keyboards that are made specifically for playing video games. He has a marketing Guru named Mark Walden working with him and both expect to make millions of dollars selling these products to gamers worldwide.
The video gaming industry is expected to make $30 billion dollars this year selling video games and consoles for products like Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PSP. This is an enormous amount of money that is more than twice the yearly grosses of the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball combined. With this kind of money involved and hundreds of millions of people playing video games all over the world the sport of professional video gaming is starting to attract major advertising sponsors and merchandising companies.
Professional video gamers are no longer just kids who are wasting their time spending endless hours playing video games. Many of them have managed to transform a hobby into a lucrative career. There are hundred of thousands, and even millions of dollars being made these days by gamers who travel the world all expenses paid and live like rock stars.
So the next time you think your child is spending too much time playing Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC or PSP games you should not worry too much. If they show more than the average amount of interest in the sport of electronic gaming, try not to discourage them from playing video games. It is important for you to realize that they may not just be playing games when they sit down in front of their television or computer, they could also be training to be a world famous cyber athlete millionaire.

If you think your kids spend too much time playing video games on your Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PC or PSP or PlayStation Portable, you can have a reason to be concerned but not worried. Before telling your child to choke the game away and take a manual to take into account a fact that there is a professional video game circuit out there with professional gamers who earn thousands, even million.
South Korea has a passion for video games. This is a video game obsessed nation. The events of electronic games in this country can consume up to 100,000 spectators to an event. Their cyber-athletes make hundreds of thousands of dollars playing in tournaments that are televised nationally. Some of them are so popular they can not go out without bodyguards to protect themselves against the fans. To date movie stars and get their faces on the covers of newspapers and magazines.
Recently there was an electronic gaming tournament held in Seoul, South Korea in Jamsil Indoor Stadium. This event was the equivalent of our Superbowl. The game of choice for this event was StarCraft, which is an online game that is played on a PC. This event was televised and broadcast on the Internet. The audience of one. 78 million who watched on television and online were glued to their seats to see the one-day event has been developed. They came to see the most popular players in the country strut.
His name is Lim Yo Hwan, who is 27 and he is the Mick Jagger of e-sports in South Korea. This young man has made a name for himself playing StarCraft, the game that what matters in the circuit of the game in this country. His fans wanted to see put on a show, and he did, winning the event easily with a price to take home $ 20,000. Lim Yo Hwan has won many events in recent years, which has put his income in the category of six figures. Not bad for playing video games.
The United States, some cyber athletes Superstar too much to do a very good life in the circuit of electronic games. The brightest star in this country is a 26 year old man named Johnathan Wendel, known to his fans as Fatal1ty, is your username. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, but his reputation lives all over the world.
Johnathan became a professional player at the age of 19 years, and during the last seven years, has won 41 tournaments in the major e-sports video games. He won the tender for electronic games than anyone in the United States. Johnathan has also done very well financially, earning over $ 450,000 in prizes.
Johnathan Wendel has traveled all over the world playing in video game tournaments. To date, he has played on every continent except Antarctica. These tournaments were held in places, very interesting, unique and famous, including the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Moscow, so the idea of holding one in Antarctica one day may not be as farfetched .
Everywhere Johnathan goes he was swamped by fans who love the way he plays video games. All fees are paid when you travel and live like a rock star. With the world championships in five different games, Johnathan is considered by most in their sport to be the best in the world. No other player was even close to matching their achievements.
In Nov. 2006 Johnathan Wendel defeated his rival and won the world championship for his fifth game, Painkiller, and thereby won a check for $ 150,000 in prizes. He defeated the world champion title of this game, a 20-year-old from Holland, who goes by the screen name Vo0.
Johnathan is becoming more popular every day, while shining like a superstar in the world of professional players. It is a force to be considered in the Cyberathlete Professional League. He recently introduced a line of Fatal1ty products that include things like mouse pads, headsets and keyboards that are manufactured specifically for video games. He has a marketing guru named Mark Walden working with him and both expect to make millions of dollars selling these products to gamers worldwide.
The video game industry is under U.S. $ 30 billion this year selling video games and consoles for products such as Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PSP. This is a huge amount of money that is more than double the annual Big NBA, NFL and MLB combined. With that kind of money involved and hundreds of millions of people playing video games in the world of professional sports video game is starting to attract major advertising sponsors and merchandising companies.
professional video game players are not only children who lose their time by spending countless hours of video games. Many of them have managed to turn a hobby into a lucrative career. There are hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars being made these days by gamers who travel the world all expenses paid and live like rock stars.
So next time you think your child spends too much time playing Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC or PSP games you should not worry too much. If they show more than the average amount of interest in the sport of electronic games, try not to discourage them from playing video games. It is important to realize that he could not simply be playing when you sit in front of your TV or computer, but can also be the formation of a world famous athlete cyber millionaire.

This article discusses Windows XP and all the new features it brings. Microsoft has introduced a very powerful operating system that offers flexibility and ease of use for the user. Moreover, if an operating system is extremely reliable and robust, both for the environment and the user too. This article begins by discussing the requirements needed XP for optimum performance and how we can meet these requirements. We also talked about the parts and pieces of the installation, upgrade and migration of user settings. They also highlight the vast new installation of Windows XP, such as unattended installations and remote installations. Microsoft also intends to focus on the market at home with this new operating system and incorporated several new features, such as managing user accounts and group management a lot easier GUI . However, it remains the same operating system reliable, if not better for the security settings, security groups and security policy field. Microsoft also includes several new auditing features and generate a large number of reports in the user administration. We also talked about the Windows Installer is included in this new operating system that helps eliminate congestion in the code and in turn provides an operating system more stable than previous versions. We also see a significant improvement in the user interface and options for greater ease of use for the average of days and features such as multilingual support to the business environment. Windows XP also has hardware support and installation of a new level with its new plug-and-play provides an excellent compatibility with mobile equipment. We then discuss the revolutionary NTFS file system that runs Windows XP and all its new advantages over the old and fat and FAT32 file systems. Windows XP also gives us a good network configuration and to solve environmental problems with new features such as shared folders and offline resources management. Remote connectivity has become much more achievable goal with the launch of Windows XP and the teleworker flexibility to work from home. Finally talk about how this new operating system is up to his older brothers legacy in terms of efficiency, optimization, recovery, backup services and others. In all, Microsoft has finally released a powerful beast of a system of exploitation and consumption is up to us to make and use Windows XP to its full potential.
Meeting minimum XP:
Microsoft Win XP minimum requirements can be classified into several categories. The most important requirement is the minimum CPU power, which is set at 233 MHz by Microsoft. Personally, I do not agree to these low standards because the cost is falling fast processing and is the largest driver of a performance factor machines. A minimum of 300 MHz is what I recommend to the lowest level. The controlling terminal is studied in this report to the base or just above the average user needs. The processor is a 2. 5 GHz Pentium 4 runs at a rate optimal. Win XP Pro supports multi-processor support, but not necessary in this scenario. The second condition has caught my attention is the amount of RAM Microsoft recommends minimum requirements for running Win XP Pro is 64 MB, which is clearly too low by today’s standards. However, Microsoft acknowledges the seriousness of the lack of Win XP Pro feature available when you use 64 MB of RAM. An example of this would be the Fast User Switching disabled in this mode. I personally recommend a minimum of 256 MB for a moving machine performance requirements mean Win XP Pro machine control in this report has the support of good RAM with 1GB of RAM. The level of RAM on this machine has a CPU load while providing excellent performance for a more intensive use of different software on the market. The hard disk requirements for Microsoft have been growing with new versions of operating systems Win XP Pro and requires a minimum of 1. 5 GB of hard drive space. This increase can be explained in the operating systems with more and more themselves, e. g. Win XP Pro has several features like a media for burning onto a CD and a built-in firewall. The control of the machine did a very good job of meeting these requirements 120GB hard drive with a main (master) 120 GB hard drive and a secondary (Slave) drive. However, there are flaws in this application that is highlighted in the security section of the report. One advantage of having two hard drives is clear that the swap file can be placed on a separate hard drive for better and faster. The machine also control the display exceeds the requirements of Win XP. Microsoft has stepped up the bar with this version and 800 x 600 display minimum requirement for operating system and a large number of video discs will not let you edit below this resolution. Control of the machine has a capacity of more than this potential with screens up to 1,600 x 1,200. Win XP Pro also recommends installation disks or a bootable CD of standards for compensation and resettlement, which is also responsible for controlling the machine. However, I personally recommend the installation disks bootable CD are more prone to failure over a long period of time. A better way would also save and install the image on the image later in this report. The BIOS is ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) capable, which enables power management functions and externally through HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) of the installation. Win XP Pro has many features of the graphical user may be used by a good graphics card. The control unit of the audit is a good graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated graphics memory for the operation of these features.
Installing Windows XP:
I wish to inform some features of Microsoft Windows Setup during installation. The option is enabled in text mode during a clean installation and gives us the opportunity to press F5 to select a laboratory for the BIOS from the menu. This is essential for an individual or organization that wants to enable the automatic shutoff feature. HAL The BIOS must be able to use this feature. It is always advisable to update the BIOS on the ability of HAL before you install Win XP. Change the BIOS after installation of Win XP has a serious risk of reaching an operating system does not start and should not be attempted without adequate backup of data. Microsoft announces the F6 option to do this install SCSI / RAID adapters. You can also enable ACPI by pressing F7 to get an ACPI HAL is not capable. ACPI can interfere with some functions of the machine, e. g. If the machine is a type of server automatic shutdown is not really a good feature to implement. The rest of the process is the way old style, where you can create and delete partitions on your hard drive. It is also the possibility to choose between NTFS and FAT32. However, I recommend NTFS if your hard drive is 32GB NTFS is the only option for you. Windows XP does all the hard work and jumping into the installation in graphical mode and prompts the user for information such as the Windows key, the name and locale. The most important thing is to put the window administrator password and write and keep in a safe place. It also requests the names of hardware and network configuration and also asks that if you are in a domain environment or workgroup environment and our intellectual property. NetBEUI has been disabled in this version of the operating system from Microsoft. You can also enter the hard drive to access the file during the installation by pressing Shift + F10. This lets you move files in hard disks, you need to access files and even install the drivers for new hardware during installation. For those who want the old style installation press Shift + F11 for Setup Assistant old style. Microsoft has also implemented the dynamic update means that if you have an Internet connection, you attempt to log on and try to download all necessary updates before your machine is running. It also attempts to install new drivers, provided that the manufacturer has his driver’s license Windows logo. However, dynamic update is only available for the installation and upgrade is not available in the cleaning facilities. Microsoft also allows you to implement their own dynamic update sites to prevent clogging of bandwidth in an enterprise environment for updates of search engines on the Microsoft Web site. The administrator can connect to Windows Update and the company’s Web site to download all updates and packages together and put on a web server for facility personnel. A switch can be installed in the configuration response file for download from these facilities. Another feature is the Windows Product Activation that there is no volume license user in the same media kit will be used for multiple installations. But the licensing of retail and OEM Windows Product Activation requires creating a hash of your computer, depending on the characteristics of many, as the hardware. Windows Product Activation may also be made in the response file and the information sent via HTTP or HTTPS and the minimum requirements for Microsoft is that recovery is required after a change of 3-4 pieces of hardware on your computer.
Windows XP Update:
Most managers can not afford to do a clean install, because there are many software and data installed in the current operating system. The biggest drawback is that all the existing code and luggage in the old operating system is transferred to the new operating system. An update on Windows is possible 98/98SE/ME/2000 and Windows NT 4. 0 with Service Pack 6. However, the server class can not be upgraded from Windows 2000 Professional. You can not upgrade from Windows 95 or Windows 3. x. A compatibility test should always be done before moving on to new operating system. Check with the switch (-checkupgradeonly) to report hardware-compatible computer to install Windows XP. If you are running Windows NT 4. 0 with fault tolerance and provides units the volume will not be accessible after you install XP as it does not support fault tolerance or volume sets. Microsoft offers an easy way to use the key to fault tolerant backup Ftonline any online information to reconstruct the volumes or numbers or stripes, and get that information back. However, you can not create fault-tolerant disk with Win XP. In case of error, you can always cancel the update. This feature is accessible from the “Add or Remove Programs” Control Panel. However, the biggest drawback is that once you change from FAT32 to NTFS, you can not go uninstall the update and get your old operating system running. The installation procedure is more or less the same while we are in a clean install, without the headache of disk partitioning. Even try to download updates (updated dynamically) if an Internet connection is detected. The software and the locale and other user settings are stored in the computer. The update comes screens different view after installation. Views change with the type of environment that you use in the case of E. g. a domain environment, the user gets to see the Ctrl + Alt + Delete screen when the user gets to see the welcome screen in a workgroup environment.
Migrating user settings:
User settings are an important element necessary in a corporate environment to preserve the appearance of a user. Files and Settings Transfer Wizard comes in handy at the computer icon of the last individual user. Transfer files and settings transfer file transfer into four categories. The first category is the aspect that includes combinations of colors, sounds and others. Secondly, it also allows your Internet settings and favorites in your Internet security settings. Thirdly, also saves all settings of your account and all email accounts and all the Internet addresses stored on your computer via Outlook. Finally, even the transfer of the configuration of the installed software like Microsoft Office and Adobe, as even a third-party software. However, the disadvantage is that the required software must be installed before their parameters can reapply the new operating system. File Transfer Wizard and the configuration can be achieved by the Windows CD by going to Perform “extra”. The process is simple and visual guidance. It gives you the opportunity to select only those files or both files and settings and transfer all necessary files via a direct cable, floppy / media / network. This can also be used on XP machines XP, in a case of customizing a new machine to industry standards. However, it is should be used for small offices or in a very small office. An improved version of this is for large offices migration tool for user state migration scripts Mass XP files. The User State Migration Tool consists of several tools once Scanstate. exe to include migapp. migsys inf. inf, Migus. inf sysfiles. inf files and you can edit these files as you want. A simple example would be to access the migapp. inf file, put in the necessary adjustments and put the files you need to download and run Scanstate. exe on the entire team. The new machine would be a different program Loadstate. exe file to unzip the file and load settings. However, as in the configuration of transfer can not transfer files and settings apply only to applications for e. g. Adobe Acrobat is not installed on your computer then transfer your settings. If application is not detected on your computer settings will not be used. This application can be accessed in the following directory “CD: VALUEADDMSFTUSMT.” This capability is fully scriptable so that a manager can send e-mail to all users and not have to attend all the machines to run this.
Automatic installation:
Microsoft also provides us with tools for unattended installation is a great feature for network administrators working in large enterprise environments. This feature saves the tedious task of sitting at each computer and install Windows XP on each of them. The automatic installation is made possible by a tool called Setup Manager, which connects the unattend file. txt, you can answer all questions that Win XP will do during the installation process. A simple way to implement this fall is all the information necessary for installation in the unattended installation. txt file and save the file to disk during the installation process or sequence of commands in this file, if you set up through an image. There is a drawback that each computer requires information only as a host name and IP addresses. This can be treated by a UDF is the single database. The IP addresses of the other side can be handled via DHCP, and other processes. If you boot from an image, it can be done by the script file winnt32. The command line should read winnt32 / s: source path / u: Unattended Installation. txt / UDF: UDF way. However, if you boot from a CD, then this file must be placed inside the disk with the name of winnt. sif. This feature is hidden in the Win XP and can be accessed through the support / TOOLS / path and then deleting the implementation. cab. This file has been extracted, then shows all the tools they need to implement and unattended installation of Windows XP. There are also three very useful reference files in this folder that provides a wealth of information on the use of these tools. The installation tool Tool Manager graphical user interface that guides you through the creation process of creating uanttend. txt and one database. It follows the simple procedure of asking questions of the organization and user name, Win XP key (This is the most important feature and must correctly enter the facility otherwise would not occur), the configuration of the work area or field, the locale and the Internet, language and time zone, the computer names and external controls, even launch other facilities for e. g. the installation of Microsoft Office after installing Win XP. The configuration manager also gives options for different types of installation and the GUI installer, installing read-only (user can see everything but can not change anything) and others. You do not create this unattned. txt from zero for each terminal and can edit this file according to your needs from one user to another. However, it becomes very cumbersome for large environments and headaches of creating a unattned. txt file for each user in a company working larger area. Microsoft’s response to what is called the Sysprep tool or system tool that gives us the ability to deploy operating systems clones on each machine. This gives the network administrator the possibility to use a style a little punch to deploy applications and operating systems pre-installed machines custom installation procedure before mass. Although the problem may arise in the security identifiers (SIDs) that Microsoft uses to identify each machine and this machine. You can use the cloning tool to deploy these clones, but you still need to use Sysprep to authenticate the support. Microsoft removes the SID and repacks when the user is on the new machine you need to enter some data from the machine to boot. Applications are installed on the merits, however, but like Microsoft to ensure that each machine has a unique SID after installation. Administrators are invited to run the last third of the cloning facilities optimal results, then use Sysprep to repackage the machine as a new brand for Sun to work safely and according to Microsoft. However, we must be very cautious before putting the clones because they are very specific hardware, so that its terminals must be the same HAL, drivers, a mass storage device and ACPI support. VAR (Value Added Resellers) must use the mode switch to the factory to install and configure the machine based on their needs. This is also known as the method of verification and the machine can re-close after Sysprep is run again with a switch to close again. This can also be done automatically using the WINBOM file. INI.
Remote Installation Services:
A remote installation service gives us the power to install Win XP on the network. Microsoft uses a PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) to achieve this goal and retirement, is that the PXE network card, you must be certified. However, Microsoft also offers some hope in some left for giving us the opportunity to use boot disks for those who are not certified PXE network cards, but there is always back and this time it this feature is supported only by the network cards in detail. Unfortunately, if you’re network card does not belong to any of these classes that are out of luck and you can not use this feature. The way the basic configuration is to connect to a severe RIS (Remote Installation Server). Once connected to the RIS server are three ways to connect and install Win XP. The first is a simple installation in which download and run an image of Win XP CD. The second process is a scripted installation by creating an answer file and do an unattended installation. The last and most powerful is the image of the software tool RIPrep (Remote Installation Preparation tool). This allows us to create an image with all custom applications installed on them and then transfer that image to all machines needed. RIS requires Active Directory environment with DNS integrated into its construction. The RIS server must be configured in Active Directory. Most administrators spend a stern separate process. Microsoft, moreover, that the RIS partition must not be separate or partition a boot, so he had to throw in a spare disk drive and place the image on it. In addition, the partition must be NTFS. RIS RIS setup utility and usefulness of the preparation you will put different images on the server. The process then requires Win XP CD and copy the I386 directory on the server and can then choose to install a simple script or install later. The RIS uses single instance storage means that stores a single copy of each file to load multiple images on the server. This result is saving a lot of space on the server too, but what makes one more reason to put it on a dedicated server and once everything is set levels of access can save images to allow restricted access to users who can not install any image you like. End users boot from the network and boot from the PXE network card or floppy disk, PXE, and are asked to connect and authenticate in the domain of the server and then give them options for installation images . In a multi-domain environment, administrators are required to configure the RIS servers in each domain. There are similar questions about the compatibility of equipment. Do not limit the permissible variations in the material of the machine, but must be identical and HAL and hard disk drives must be equal or larger size. booklet PXE only works on users of PCMCIA network cards are limited laptop out of luck. Also the remote installation can be done only on drives C and segregation units do not allow the service to work.
Installation Troubleshooting:
Troubleshooting is always an enemy that the administration has faced during their work. Although Windows XP is a very robust operating system, there is a slight possibility that you’ll have problems during installation. The first step is to check the compatibility of equipment and hardware health. Mostly the problems I found in Windows XP are due to defective hardware. There is no guarantee that the devices running on Windows 2000 Windows XP. A first step is to install Windows XP with minimal equipment and components to low additional hardware after installation. This allows you to isolate the piece of bad or incompatible hardware. You can also access the website of Microsoft Access, the HCL. You should also check if the BIOS supports ACPI as described above.
User Accounts:
Windows XP requires user accounts to operate in it. Formula based on the Windows NT kernel. Each user on Windows XP requires a user account. A great advantage of user accounts must be able to customize Windows XP for your environment. Windows XP can run in a workgroup or an Active Directory domain. Windows XP gives us also built in user accounts. The most powerful of all is the administrator account and repeatedly told to do everyday tasks logged in as administrator. The control of the machine in this case is a serious threat because the user account is present only in this machine is the Administrator account is not protected. This is a serious threat because the user has complete control of E. g. format a disk, even by accident. The other story is the guest account which is open to users to access the machine, but does not give you the power to corrupt or affect programs installed. A workgroup environment is good for a small company network, but the biggest drawback is the terminal of each must have a user account for that user on that computer, because Windows XP accounts for authenticated users. However, the field of environment has a central repository for all accounts that reduces overhead and it is easy to add new accounts and terminals. In a domain environment where a user account, you can use this account to connect to any machine in the local domain. The accounts of users in a workgroup can be sustained through user accounts in control panel. In the default user accounts in Windows XP does not need a password, but the administrator can change this default setting. Microsoft has also installed a feature called “Password forgot to tell” where, through the administrator account can create a floppy disk with the password stored in the recovery. However, this result should be preserved because it can be a circular hole for the safety of the entire network. In a domain environment you must log in as a member of the administrator to create and delete user accounts. However, in a domain environment, you must add domain users to local group to give them access to machines of this group using this user account. The concept is somewhat different, as the domain user accounts must have access to a local group and are therefore able to connect to a machine of this group with that domain account, while each computer in a domain environment may also have local user accounts for the specific machine and accessible only through.
Group Accounts:
Groups are a blessing for a director of the parameters of authorization. This allows us to combine them to manage users and resources. Local groups allow us to set the permissions to a group and to drip for members of this group, local groups in each machine that gives us this ability. Windows XP also gives groups such as the built in Administrators group and the group of users. Local groups, however, have the power to the local machine. Microsoft Management Console to create, delete and manage groups. g.

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