Now a days it is very important that all machines disable their auto play feature to stop the spreading of virus from portable disks. If auto play is enabled, the virus scan spread as soon as the drive is plugged into the system, if the drive is infected. Follow the below mentioned steps to disable auto play in XP Pro machines.

1. Win dows XP Pro users: Click Start and then click Run. Type gpedit.msc and click OK. The Group Policy window will open. In the left pane, double-click Administrative Templates
2. In the right pane, double-click System, scroll down the list and double-click Turn Off Autoplay
3. In the Turn Off Autoplay Properties window, select Enabled. From the dropdown next to Turn Off Autoplay on, select All drives and then click OK. Exit Group Policy by selecting File, then choosing Exit from the menu.

This Webcast Series will show how Windows 7, Exchange Server 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 deliver on the key capabilities IT Professionals have asked for. Also, the webcasts will cover the Virtualization aspects of these new generation technologies.

22-Jul-09 4:00-5:30pm Windows 7 Meet Windows 7! Ranjana Jain   29-Jul-09 4:00-5:30pm Exchange Server 2010 Technical Overview Ravi Sankar   05-Aug-09 4:00-5:30pm Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Overview of changes in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Part 1 of 2) Ranjana Jain   12-Aug-09 4:00-5:30pm SQL Server 2008 Upgrading from SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008 Vinod Kumar   26-Aug-09 4:00-5:30pm Windows 7 Windows 7 Performance Enhancements Ranjana Jain   02-Sep-09 4:00-5:30pm Exchange Server 2010 Anywhere Access and End user Experience Ravi Sankar   09-Sep-09 4:00-5:30pm Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Oerview of changes in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Part 2 of 2) Ranjana Jain   16-Sep-09 4:00-5:30pm Virtualization Solving Application Compatibility Using Virtualization Technologies Ravi Sankar   23-Sep-09 4:00-5:30pm Windows 7 Managing Windows 7 using Windows Powershell 2.0 Ranjana Jain   30-Sep-09 4:00-5:30pm Exchange Server 2010 Compliance, Archiving and Retention Ravi Sankar

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  Note: This is an online event and you are not required to pay any fee to attend it.

Microsoft Virtual Techdays are back. its a great opportunity lo learn new Microsoft Innovations .

I am looking forward to Silverlight 2 session on Nov24th 10:30 to 3 PM IST and Building Data-Driven Applications with Silverlight 2 and the new Silverlight Control Pack

on 25th (2:15 to 3:30 PM IST)

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I recently installed Windows 2008 server on my laptop . Fully excited to learn the new features I logged in to the machine and started to browse the net with Internet explorer. Then I noticed a nagging “Your current security settings put your computer at risk ” message below the IE address bar. it was so irritating that i stopped browsing with Win2008 server. Another problem I faced is that the IE was displaying  ”Security Settings at risk ” page on IE startup than my predefined homepage ion IE options. I dont understand why microsoft wants to irritate people like this. WHo ever using Windows 2008 server will have a minimum amount of knowledge about security and its only required show them a warning once. Why are they showing this idiotic message everytime ?? And they dont have a button/link to disable this feature which makes us hate the OS/IE the very first time.  

Image of Security settigns at risk page:

After cursing the the MS team. I found a way to disable these irritating  features.

The steps are  as follows: 

Start -> Run - Gpedit.msc (MS group policy editor)Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates ->

 Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Security Features -> Information Bar. Change “All processes” to “Disable”.

 Now go to Start - Run - regedit Navigate to HKLM -> Software -> Microsoft -> Internet Explorer -> 

Main Change the “Security Risk Page” to your home page link.