Monday, May 26, 2003

Speed Up Boot time with Windows XP Prefetch Clean & Control A few weeks ago, we told you how to speed up your Windows XP startup time by clearing the files in your PREFETCH directory. Ben Taylor wrote recently and told us about a very cool tool called "Windows XP Prefetch Clean & Control". This little freeware utility will clean out your PREFETCH folder for you, and it also has a few other tricks up its sleeve. Definitely worth a try. 6:39:13 PM    comment [] TIP: CHANGING IE'S KEEPALIVETIMEOUT VALUE When I'm working across my high-latency satellite Internet connection, my browser occasionally times out before connecting to the Web site I want to access. The problem is Microsoft Internet Explorer's (IE's) default KeepAliveTimeout value, which defaults to 1 minute. I could defeat the value by using the satellite proxy server that my connection software provides, but doing so causes some problems that I prefer not to experience. Fortunately, by creating a KeepAliveTimeout registry entry, I can reset the timeout length default value. A longer timeout lets me cope with some of the inherent latency that my satellite Internet connection introduces. To create the KeepAliveTimeout entry and set its value, take the following steps: Launch regedit. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings. Create a KeepAliveTimeout subkey of type REG_DWORD. Set the data value to the number of milliseconds (ms) you want the connection to stay alive. The valid data value range is from 60,000ms (1 minute) to 2,147,483,647ms (just less than 25 days). A setting of no more than a few minutes should solve most connection problems. by David Chernicoff, david@winnetmag.com -- Windows Client UPDATE, May 15, 2003 6:36:29 PM    comment [] Using IIS with a dynamic IP address By Steve Blass -- NW Digital Grease Monkey March 12, 2003 We leased a domain name that is being routed by our ISP to a "holding" page. We want to call up the Web page from outside our network and access our Internet Information Server (IIS) and Web page. We want to use IIS to host the Web page/domain using the dynamic IP address that our ISP provides us. How can we accomplish this? The secret is to use a stable Internet location to provide dynamic DNS update services or URL redirection services that keep your domain host names synchronized with the dynamically changing IP address given by your broadband ISP. Searching the phrase "URL redirection" will uncover several services on the Internet, including http://www.tzo.com/ and http://www.no-ip.com/. Or you can build your own with a little scripting. The idea is to use a script or servlet on your holding page to redirect Web page requests to your IIS server. The trick is having the IIS server check in with the holding page server every time the IP address changes in order to update the redirection script. The static Web page space that accompanies many broadband connections often is suitable for hosting such a holding page. 6:35:46 PM    comment []

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