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Melissa Mendick

Melissa Mendick has more than 15 years of network and systems administration experience with small and midsized Windows networks. In her spare time, she enjoys helping others on various online support forums, including windowsitpro.com.
Email: melissa.mendick@gmail.com

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Set Up Printers Without GPOs

By Melissa Mendick, 05/27/2008

If you can't use GPOs for users' printer connections, you can help your users make the connections with the Add Printer Wizard, the Run command, or a shortcut on a public share.

Recommended: PMPMgr for Printer Management

By Melissa Mendick, 05/27/2008

Windows XP's System Restore

By Melissa Mendick, 08/19/2002

Learn how to use Windows XP's System Restore to recover your system and protect your data.

System Restore Registry Entries

By Melissa Mendick, 08/19/2002

Learn about registry entries that are relevant to Windows XP's System Restore.

Disabling System Restore

By Melissa Mendick, 08/19/2002

Learn how to prevent users from changing Windows XP's System Restore settings.

Top 10 XP Registry Hacks

By Melissa Mendick, 04/22/2002

Tweak XP's registry to improve performance and usability.

Avoid User-Rights Abuse

By Melissa Mendick, 10/18/2001

To ensure that users don't abuse NT's user rights, activate Use of User Rights auditing.

The 27 NT User Rights

By Melissa Mendick, 10/18/2001

Learn how to use NT's 11 standard and 16 advanced user rights to maximum advantage.

10 Steps for Replacing Your Aging PDC

By Melissa Mendick, 02/28/2001

The author shares the steps she took to replace her aging PDC with a new one, all without the help of a BDC.



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