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Windows XP Network Problem Solver

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I have a client who has 3 Windows XP home computers. They were sharing Quickbooks Pro across these three by using one computer as a “server”. Well this “server” ended up getting multiple trojans, viruses and spyware installed onto it making it non accessible from the other 2 machines. We ended up working a few hours off and on each day for the past week trying to get this thing back on-line. We used HP’s recovery partion, XP’s restore point, and many other winsock and network reset utilities to no-avail. It wasn’t until I broke down and took the computer home did I stumble upon the Windows XP Network Problem Solver page by Hans-Georg Michna tht I was able to crack this problem. This computer was having the infamous “Logon failure: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.” message when connecting from another PC. It wasn’t until I followed the instructions of the aformentioned page did I fix this problem. Here is the code (note: you must first download the “Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit” to use the ntrights utility. See the link above for instructions)

net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight -u Guest

So simple and intuitive right? It had to be done because XP Home as limitations on networking built in that XP Pro does not. The moral of this story has two parts: 1) Always use XP pro in a networked, business, or home office environment and 2) never do work for a client who is having file sharing and networking issues in XP Home MAKE them upgrade or tell them to call someone else!

Where You Buy Your Gas Could be as Important as HOW MUCH You Pay!

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A forward I got from my friend Doug. Interesting information I thought I would pass on:

The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the
coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don’t import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends. I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil:
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Sick of all the ads on on websites?

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1) Click on the Get Firefox button on the top right.

2) Then get the adblock extension at http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html

3) Shutdown and reopen firefox

3) Download this filter list http://www.spuler.us/extensions/adblock.txt

4) Goto Tools->Adblock->Preferences menu item

5) Click on the Adblock Options button and select Import Filters…

6) Find the adblock.txt file you just downloaded and select Open

You should have less ads already even on my page! Now you can right click on an ad and select Adblock Image or Adblock iFrame to get rid of an ad. Now your surfing the web ad free!