The registry controls almost all aspects of your Windows server’s configuration. See how to deal with problems that can occur in one of the most important parts of the registry — the system hive. Read the article at ZDNet-UK TechUpdate written by MCSE Peter Parsons.
Recover the System Hive of a Windows Server
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I’m just curious what one has to endure to become an MCSE?
Flaming spanking paddles?
Burning coal walking?
“Upgrading” Windows 95 to Windows ME?
And what differentiates it from an A+ Certification?
A+ is vendor neutral and MCSE concentrates mainly on implementing and maintaining an Active Directory. Some of the tests are pretty hard despite pathetic trolls like yourself. I just took a Cisco exam and many people widely herald it as much harder but it didn’t seem that much harder to me than my MCSE tests and one MCSE test in particular was much harder.
How does one get to the recovery console in XP?
Never mind that last comment, I found that it works the same in XP, I had just made a mistake.
How does one get to the recovery console in XP?
pop in your win xp cd and boot from it. then select to repair your system. on the next screen it will ask you if you want to go into the recovery console – press ‘R’. type in your admin password and your in.
and i forgot .. if you have a win 2000 pro cd. you can do all the same as above and not have to type in an admin password – now that’s Microsoft grade security
Wee! I get to be a pathetic troll.
Just because I don’t have enough money to take the exams, doesn’t mean I don’t have a majority of the knowledge required. It just means I need to stop getting fucked in the ass by life.
(My family had to pay $2400 because the SPCA seized our horses. At the same time, I had to start sleeping on the couch, because the roof was leaking on my bed. AND, my car’s transmission died, so I had little to no reliable transportation to work and to college. Fun.)
I meant, specifically, the A+ exams. It takes a lot more money than what I’ll have in the next year to take the MCSE exams, I’m certain. Same goes for CCNA. A+ is at least moderately affordable, from what I’ve gathered.
I always loved the way NT would try and back up your configuration to a floppy disk (all 10Mb of it on a typical system…)
Longhorn is meant to have a database-like filesystem, let’s hope they give it rollback and versioning and then base the registry around it instead of the ugly hack it is now. Registry breakage has got to be the most common cause of Windows failure, and registry bloating the most common cause of Windows slowdown. We know Microsoft can write databases ok (even Access is passable these days), so what’s the deal with the registry?
one MCSE test in particular was much harder.
Must have been 70-216, Windows networking, aka. The Beast 😉
and i forgot .. if you have a win 2000 pro cd. you can do all the same as above and not have to type in an admin password – now that’s Microsoft grade security
Sure. At least you need a specific cd here. Linux? Just boot linux single 😀
Sure. At least you need a specific cd here. Linux? Just boot linux single 😀
You CAN disable that functionality in Linux. Can you in Windows?
This article is kind of sad. Not that it is a bad article, or doesn’t have very useful information in it. It’s just sad that the artcle has to exist.
The registry hive in XP has died on me at least 3 times (and I only used XP for a total of 4 months). I have never had that problem with Windows 2000 (beginning in 1998 when I used it as a production machine in its beta form at Microsoft). I think XP is lame (posting happily from 2000 at the moment).
Serge, you read my mind. 70-216 left my brain a quivering mass of Jello. I passed and I don’t know how. CCNA was child’s play next to 70-216.
Beryllium, I am sorry I thought you were trolling. A+ isn’t worth wasting your money on. Better to take your CCNA or one Microsoft exam. I joined the military to pay for my education (among other reasons).