Friday, March 18, 2011

How to write protect your USB drive

There are reasons that you want to write protect your USB drive. The main cause of viruses is USB flash drive. These viruses tend to copy themselves to the flash drive whenever system detected new device plug in. You can protect your USB flash drive if you enable the write protects through your PC.
To enable usb write protect on your PC follow these steps:-

1. From Start menu, point to Run, type in: regedit
If you are using Vista or Windows 7, just type in regedit in the search box when you click on the Start menu.

2. Navigate to the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
3. Find a sub key inside that is named "StorageDevicePolicies". If it does not exist there then we need to make it. Right click on "Control" key -> New -> Key. Name it "StorageDevicePolicies" without quotes.

4. Now right click on this newly created key and then click New -> DWORD value and name it as "WriteProtect".

5. Double click this key to modify and give it a value 1. The value 1 in here means to enable it, while the value 0 is the opposite to disable it.
6. Click Ok button to save and exit Registry Editor.

Now usb is write protected is on your PC.
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Alternatively you can do this by creating a reg file for this just open a notepad and copy and paste this line for enable usb write protect,


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000001

Save this file with .reg ext like (usb write protect enable.reg)

And for usb write protect disable use this line,


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000000


save this file with .reg ext like(disableusb write protect.reg)…………

Now whenever you want to enable or disable usb write protect you can do that by using these files......................
Task completed...................


Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Microsoft Outlook : Recall or Undo Email Message

This function works only in corporate environment means with exchange server Most home and personal account don't use Microsoft Exchange.
The recipient of the e-mail massege that you want to recall must also be using an exchange account. You can't recall a massege sent, for example to someones personal ISP POP3 e-mail account.......

For Outlook 2003:
1. Go to the Sent Items folder.
2. Find the message you want recalled and double-click it.
3. Go to the Actions menu and select Recall This Message.
4. To recall the message: Under this you will get these options
Delete unread copies of this message.
(the recipient needs to have Outlook opened for the message to be deleted)
To replace the message:
Select Delete unread copies and replace with a new message, click OK, and type your new message.
To be notified about the success of the recall or replacement:
Check the Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient check box.
5. Click OK.
For Outlook 2007:
1. Click on Sent Items.
2. Find the message you want recalled and double-click it to open.
3. Go to the Ribbon.
4. In the Actions section, click Other Actions and select Recall This Message.
5. Select Delete unread copies of this message.
6. To be notified about the success of the recall, check the Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient checkbox.
7. Click OK.

For Outlook 2010
1. Go to the Sent folder.
2. Open the message.
3. Click the More Actions option in the Actions tab.
4. Select Recall This Message
5. Choose whether to Delete undread copies of this message or Delete undread copies and replace with a new message.
6. Click OK.
THATs ALL..............




Thursday, March 3, 2011

RIS configuration

For Step-by Step guide of RIS Setup See on this link:-

http://www.alanphipps.com/WindowsAdmin-Server-RIS.html