Automatic login to Windows XP

Don't you like typing your password in to your personal computer that no one else uses? To automatically log in to Windows XP, run "control userpasswords2".

DAFT RAT (watermark is missing letters)

If your watermark is missing letters (such as a DRAFT comes out as DAFT or RAT), uncheck the semitransparent option in Format > Background > Printed Watermark .

Thanks to http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/watermarkletters/index.html for the solution.

Compile Error in Hidden Module: AutoExec

Upon opening MS Excel, I was getting a Visual Basic error ==> Compile Error in Hidden Module: AutoExecNew and upon exit ==> Compile Error in Hidden Module: DistMon.

I tried the solutions on Experts Exchange , but the solutions didn't work. My particular problem had to do with a user who had just moved computers. Her old computer had Adobe Acrobat, and her new one didn't. It seems that her old computer created some VB code in a roaming profile for this user. So, from within her login, I uninstalled Acrobat from the old computer and the errors disappeared from her new computer.

Instead of Acrobat, try PDF Creator.

Shutdown But Don't Power Off My Servers!

I manage HP ProLiant servers and we've been having power outages. What would happen is that a couple of servers wouldn't power on automatically, even though the BIOS setting was to restart when power was restored.

The offender was a Windows 2003 server that would get a signal to shutdown (i.e. kill all Windows processes) but would ALSO turn off the power to server. What I wanted was the power to remain on for the server and to let the UPS remove the power so that when building power is restored, the server will turn back on.

I found the solution at www.annoyances.org: You could try changing the following registry value. Go to Start-> Run ->regedit. Browse to the following key and change the value shown. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "PowerDownAfterShutdown"="0"