1. Click on the Windows Start button at the lower, left-hand corner of the screen, or tap the Windows key on the keyboard and select Control Panel.
2. From the Control Panel, click on Network and Internet
3. Click on Network and Sharing Center.
4. Click on Set up a new connection or network.
5. Click on Connect to a workplace at the "Choose a connection option" window.
6. At the Connect to a Workplace window, click on Use my Internet connection (VPN).
7. At the next window you will see "Type the Internet address to connect to". Type the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address for the VPN provider, e.g., example.com, in the Internet address field. The default destination name is "VPN Connection," but you can change it if you wish to reflect the particular VPN provider, e.g., "Ajax VPN Connection". Check the check box next to "Don't connect now; just set it up so I can connect later" and then click on the Next button. Note: if you don't have a VPN service already, Hide.me offers a free VPN service you can use for testing, though it has more limited features and geographical locations than the Hide.me paid service.
8. At the next window, you can provide the user name and password for the VPN account. If you don't want to have to provide those each time you establish the VPN connection, check the check box next to "Remember this password" then click on Create.
9. When you see "The connection is ready to use," click on the Close button rather than Connect now.
10. Then back at the Network and Sharing Center window, you can click on Connect to a Network and select the VPN connection. Or you can click on Change adapter settings which will show you the available network connections. You will need to be already connected to the Internet via a wired or wireless connection to establish a connection to the VPN. You can then double-click on the VPN connection entry in the list. You should see "WAN Miniport (IKEv2)" on that entry. If you need to make any changes to the settings, you can right-click on the relevant VPN connection and choose Properties.
11. A window will open with fields for the user name and password for the domain. If you chose to save those values previously, you can simply click on Connect at this point to establish the VPN connection.

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Instructions for installing SNMP on systems running Windows XP are at Installing SNMP Under Windows XP.

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C:\>powercfg -availablesleepstates
The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby ( S3 ) Hibernat
e Hybrid Sleep
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
        The system firmware does not support this standby state.
Standby (S2)
        The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Another option for the powercfg command, - hibernate or -h, enables or disables hibernation. You can see all available options with powercfg /?.

  -HIBERNATE, -H
              Enables-Disables the hibernate feature.  Hibernate timeout is not
              supported on all systems.

              Usage: POWERCFG -H <ON|OFF>
                     POWERCFG -H -Size <PercentSize>
              -Size  Specifies the desired hiberfile size in percentage of the
                     total memory. The default size cannot be smaller than 50.
                     This switch will also enable the hiberfile automatically.

  -AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES, -A
              Reports the sleep states available on the system
              Attempts to report reasons why sleep states are unavailable.

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1. Click on the Start button.
2. Type regedit in the "Search programs and files" field and hit Enter.
3. When prompted if you want to allow the program to make change to the system, choose "yes".
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
5. Right-click on Winlogon and choose "New" then "Key" and put SpecialAccounts for the key name.
6. Right-click on SpecialAccounts and choose "New" then "Key" and put Userlist for the key name.
7. Right-click on UserList on the left side of the window and select New and then DWORD (32-bit) Value.
8. You'll see the new entry in the right pane of the window, rename this value, which by default will be labelled "New Value #1", to the name of the user account you want hidden. It should be exactly how it is listed on the welcome screen you see when the system starts. Leave the value at 0.
9. You can then close the registry editor by clicking on File then Exit.

Now when you logoff, you shouldn't see the hidden account on the welcome screen. If you still see it, reboot.

Note: unlike with hidden accounts under Windows XP, you can't log into a hidden account by hitting the Ctrl, Alt, and Del keys.

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1. Click on the Windows Start button.
2. In the "Search programs and files" field type cmd.

   

3. Right-click on cmd.exe and choose "Run as administrator". Provide a userid and password for an account in the administrators group when prompted.

Alternatively, you can open a command prompt with administrator access from a command prompt you've opened from a standard user account by typing runas /user:administrator cmd.exe. Or you can substitute the name of some other account with administrator access instead of "administrator". Enter the password for the account when prompted to provide it.

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