Some Notes on the Machines

Good article, sent by the remarkable Zach Hogan:

https://sysblogging.com/2015/12/29/how-to-migrate-windows-file-server-shares-with-ntfs-permissions/

Remote Web Workplace. Certificates are verified AOK, and yet at the point of RDP, you receive a popup reading “Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because no certificate was configured to use at the Remote Desktop Gateway server. Contact your network administrator for assistance.”

To fix this, you’ll need the Remote Desktop Gateway Manager. If you have it, it’s in Start, Administrative Tools, Remote Desktop Services. If you don’t have it, install it:

dism /online /Enable-Feature:Gateway-UI

Then:

1. Open the RDGM.
2. Right-click the server object, open properties.
3. Open the SSL Certificate tab.
4. Click Import Certificate.
5. Choose the correct certificate — it’s the Exchange list, if this is SBS — and click OK.

SFTP, also called SCP, is not, accurately speaking, FTP. SFTP is “SSH File Transfer”, transfer of files over the SSH protocol, and not the FTP protocol. The FTP protocol has its own excellent secure (FTPS) capabilities, FileZilla being a recommended graphical FTP server for Windows; but GUI servers for SSH are much harder to find. Happily, here is one:

https://www.solarwinds.com/free-tools/free-sftp-server/registration?program=961&c=70150000000FJX0&CMP=BIZ-TAD-PCWDLD-SW_WW_X_PP_PPD_FT_EN_TOPFT_SW-SFTP-X_X_X_X-X

1. There are three ways to reset the password if you need to do so:

https://www.mydigitallife.net/reset-and-fix-incorrect-or-wrong-password-for-windows-xp-mode-xpmuser/

2. If you need to transfer an XP mode virtual from one user profile to another, create a blank XP mode on the new user, then copy all of the old files replacing the new. Use the default filenames, don’t change anything. It will work, but you will need to change the password, above.

A registry entry:

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /v SeparateProcess /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

which can be set up in group policy, under Computer Configuration, Preferences, Windows Settings, Registry.

Here’s a great tester:

https://ftptest.net/

Very nice:

https://gist.github.com/Zenexer/ae98c2b80d60fffcc588

This will make any Windows 10 machine run much faster, at the cost of the fancy Cortana query and search component.

1. In REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Software, Policies, Microsoft, Windows.
2. Create key “Windows Search” no quotes.
3. Create DWORD32 “AllowCortana” no quotes. Make sure the value is zero (0).
4. Create DWORD32 “AllowCortanaAboveLock” no quotes. Make sure the value is zero (0).
5. Create DWORD32 “DisableWebSearch” no quotes. Make sure the value is one (1).
6. Create DWORD32 “ConnectedSearchUseWeb” no quotes. Make sure the value is zero (0).
7. Create DWORD32 “ConnectedSearchUseWebOverMeteredConnections” no quotes. Make sure the value is zero (0).
8. Reboot.

Possibly the best:

http://www.mediaelementjs.com/

Netflix has a lot of categories, and its automatic machines have been given far too much ability to prevent us from seeing our interests. Here is a better way. Try the links here:

http://whatsonnetflix.com/netflix-hacks/the-netflix-id-bible-every-category-on-netflix/2/