How To Tell Windows XP To Not Look For New Wireless Networks
In order to make Windows XP ignore new wireless networks, there must be some sort of registry tweak or something, right? There must be some way to force the manual setup of new wireless network connections in Windows, right? Let’s find out… After a bit of Googling came up with these:
http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/ht/wirelessconn.htm
This one may be true, but on the system I checked the checkbox mentioned was not ticked. Not to mention, this does not keep the wireless adapter from finding, or scanning for, new wireless networks and reporting that they are in view.
Posted under Microsoft, Network, Wireless
This post was written by Content Curator on July 2, 2009
Set Windows clock to UTC time
Save the following lines as utc.reg, and then run it to import this registry tweak. It allows you to set the hardware clock in your PC’s BIOS to UTC time. This is handy for boot dual-booting Mac, or Linux, when those operating systems are set to read the BIOS clock as UTC time, instead of Windows’ preferred Local Time (ie. PST, PDT, MST, MDT, CST, CDT, EST, EDT, or the standard “GMT-
Here is the code to save as utc.reg:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
“RealTimeIsUniversal”=dword:00000001
Posted under Apple, Linux, Microsoft
This post was written by Content Curator on October 30, 2007
