Re:How to disable Passport integration with XP
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in the run window type:
"gpedit.msc"
then under:
"Computer Configurations -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Messenger"
there are some options there that are self explanatory...
you can change the settings there...
you can also do this for a single user as well... just a thought...
I'm pretty much in the same boat... currently I'm taking a BSc. in Physics, balacing work and running a small business... I'm working because the business isn't large enough to provide a truely stable income, but nonetheless I know the feeling that most other people here seem to express... It's a rough go... but every year you will find yourself looking back and being proud of what you accomplished... at least I have and honestly that's what keeps me motivated... a sense of pride and honour in what I have accomplished/will accomplish...
the biggest problem I have found is how do you manage the major conflicts... realistically business doesn't stop because you have a test... and a test doesn't stop because you have a business... a job works a differently in that it isn't your head on the chopping block everytime, but in your situation you have to be the go-to-guy for your business and that more than anything is what is going to throw you... managing a schedule is an absolute necessity... do everything in set time periods as much as possible... routine will keep you on track and focused on what you need to do/have to do... last year (3rd year for me) I found myself losing routine because I was moving my schedule around so much and then I discovered I was overbooking myself a lot of times... the more you keep everything in a stringent pattern the less likely you are to have fall apart at the seams... albeit factor in some lag time into EVERYTHING you can (I try to space everything by about a 1/2 hour and I take work/homework with me to fill that time, if I get it)... because assignments always take longer than you thought and meetings run longer than they should, and everything always breaks when it shouldn't... and if stuff doesn't go wrong then lo and behold you will have free time;-)
and as I said you need to balance the major conflicts, at some points you will have to drop something you just need to prepare for those decisions and not look back... I am willing to miss small tests/assignments for business emergencies, but major tests/major assignments come before those same emergencies... make sure your are comfortable with sacrificing both, because I assure you it will happen, and as a result your marks/bottom line will suffer...
as someone else said (and I'm sure a couple other people said, I didn't read all the posts) get sleep, and eat... these are essential to your survival... you need to ensure that you have both of these otherwise it becomes way easier to become distracted and then you find that you don't have the motivation to complete stuff you need to get done...
in our office we just back up the whole network... we are working on centralizing everything but it's a pretty painful process... we back up all of our data files using WinRar (and divide up for storage on CD-RW's)... I also grabbed a copy of PC Magazine's Tree program and I schedule it to run every night at 11:00 and it takes a snapshot of our directory structures (reminds me of what programs we had and how the network was configured)... then the backup runs at 11:30 and the next day we burn it to CDRW's... Every friday we burn to CD-R's and take them off site... that way if the place burns down we have info that is max 1 week old (barring strange things like corrupted files)... this also allows us to recover older files that may have gotten deleted/infected and not realized for a couple of days/weeks (as they are in the offsite CD-R's)...
there are a few caveats with our method... 1) you gotta pay for WinRar ($30), not a lot but it's not free but I like the interface so I use it... 2) Media can get costly (contrary to advertising CD-RW's do not last for 1,000 rewrites - we get about a 6 months to a year our of them, and we gotta buy CD-R's on top of that... 3) size... we have 5 computers on our network and they take up 2 CD's at the moment and we are teetering on 3 at the moment so if you need more storage space this isn't a good option... 4) speed of restore (it takes a while unlike a ghost option cause you have to reinstall all the programs/settings/data files... so it can take a while...
but it works for us... we even had all of our laptops stolen last week (3 of them)... I had them back to normal in less than a day... so like I said it depends on the size of your network... if it's big this is not the option for you...
it's incredibly transparent to everyone cause you can schedule it to run at night, just make sure that people leave their laptops behind every so often otherwise they never get backed up...
Not to mention that's its frustrating that is doesn't include an FTP server integrated... I understand why, it's listed on their site but keep in mind this is something that you also need to setup and administer
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in the run window type: "gpedit.msc" then under: "Computer Configurations -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Messenger" there are some options there that are self explanatory... you can change the settings there... you can also do this for a single user as well... just a thought...
I'm pretty much in the same boat... currently I'm taking a BSc. in Physics, balacing work and running a small business... I'm working because the business isn't large enough to provide a truely stable income, but nonetheless I know the feeling that most other people here seem to express... It's a rough go... but every year you will find yourself looking back and being proud of what you accomplished... at least I have and honestly that's what keeps me motivated... a sense of pride and honour in what I have accomplished/will accomplish...
;-)
the biggest problem I have found is how do you manage the major conflicts... realistically business doesn't stop because you have a test... and a test doesn't stop because you have a business... a job works a differently in that it isn't your head on the chopping block everytime, but in your situation you have to be the go-to-guy for your business and that more than anything is what is going to throw you... managing a schedule is an absolute necessity... do everything in set time periods as much as possible... routine will keep you on track and focused on what you need to do/have to do... last year (3rd year for me) I found myself losing routine because I was moving my schedule around so much and then I discovered I was overbooking myself a lot of times... the more you keep everything in a stringent pattern the less likely you are to have fall apart at the seams... albeit factor in some lag time into EVERYTHING you can (I try to space everything by about a 1/2 hour and I take work/homework with me to fill that time, if I get it)... because assignments always take longer than you thought and meetings run longer than they should, and everything always breaks when it shouldn't... and if stuff doesn't go wrong then lo and behold you will have free time
and as I said you need to balance the major conflicts, at some points you will have to drop something you just need to prepare for those decisions and not look back... I am willing to miss small tests/assignments for business emergencies, but major tests/major assignments come before those same emergencies... make sure your are comfortable with sacrificing both, because I assure you it will happen, and as a result your marks/bottom line will suffer...
as someone else said (and I'm sure a couple other people said, I didn't read all the posts) get sleep, and eat... these are essential to your survival... you need to ensure that you have both of these otherwise it becomes way easier to become distracted and then you find that you don't have the motivation to complete stuff you need to get done...
best of luck with it...
in our office we just back up the whole network... we are working on centralizing everything but it's a pretty painful process... we back up all of our data files using WinRar (and divide up for storage on CD-RW's)... I also grabbed a copy of PC Magazine's Tree program and I schedule it to run every night at 11:00 and it takes a snapshot of our directory structures (reminds me of what programs we had and how the network was configured)... then the backup runs at 11:30 and the next day we burn it to CDRW's... Every friday we burn to CD-R's and take them off site... that way if the place burns down we have info that is max 1 week old (barring strange things like corrupted files)... this also allows us to recover older files that may have gotten deleted/infected and not realized for a couple of days/weeks (as they are in the offsite CD-R's)... there are a few caveats with our method... 1) you gotta pay for WinRar ($30), not a lot but it's not free but I like the interface so I use it... 2) Media can get costly (contrary to advertising CD-RW's do not last for 1,000 rewrites - we get about a 6 months to a year our of them, and we gotta buy CD-R's on top of that... 3) size... we have 5 computers on our network and they take up 2 CD's at the moment and we are teetering on 3 at the moment so if you need more storage space this isn't a good option... 4) speed of restore (it takes a while unlike a ghost option cause you have to reinstall all the programs/settings/data files... so it can take a while... but it works for us... we even had all of our laptops stolen last week (3 of them)... I had them back to normal in less than a day... so like I said it depends on the size of your network... if it's big this is not the option for you... it's incredibly transparent to everyone cause you can schedule it to run at night, just make sure that people leave their laptops behind every so often otherwise they never get backed up...
Not to mention that's its frustrating that is doesn't include an FTP server integrated... I understand why, it's listed on their site but keep in mind this is something that you also need to setup and administer
right up until you reach the transition point to concrete/asphalt/whatever... ouch!...