A mirrored volume, also known as a RAID-1 volume, is a fault-tolerant volume that duplicates your data on two different physical disks. Mirrored volumes are supported on dynamic disks, and provide data redundancy by using two identical copies of your drive.

Below I will give you the steps in setting up a mirrored drive on a Windows 2003 System.

1. Log on to the system with Administrator rights.
2. Click Start and then right click My Computer.
3. Then click Manage.
4. In the Disk Management window, right-click the drive that you want to mirror, and then click Add Mirror.
5. Click the disk in which you want to use to mirror, and then click Add Mirror.

Note: you cannot create mirrored volumes on computers that are running Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional or Windows XP 64-Bit Edition

If you have a desktop computer and you want multiple monitors, you’ll need to go buy a second video card. Unless you have built in dual video adapter that supports multiple monitors. You can upgrade your current video adapter with an adapter that can connect directly to multiple monitors. make sure that any video card you buy is compatible with your computer and has connectors that match the monitors you plan to use.

If you’re a laptop user, you don’t have the option of adding another video adapter, but your laptop should support using Dual view with an external monitor and the laptop’s built-in display. If it does support Dualview, just plug a monitor into the external VGA port of your laptop and turn on the Dual view feature of Windows XP. To turn on Dual view, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the desktop, and then click Properties.
2. In the DisplayProperties dialog box, click the Settings tab.
3. Click on the Screen numbered 2 or click on the display list and click the second video adapter
4. Check the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor option. Click Apply or OK.

Windows uses the spool folder to store all print jobs while they are waiting to be sent to the printer. By default, Windows spool folder is in the same area as the windows system files are.  “%systemroot%\System32\spool”. I will show you how to move the spool folder.

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When you open a new tab in IE7 by default it open a blank page that says “You’ve opened a new tab”.

Below is the steps to setup IE7 to open your home page with you open a new tab.

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click Tools and then click Internet Options
3. Under General tab click on Tab Settings button
4. check the box that says “Open home page for new tabs instead of a blank page” and then click OK twice.

If you open a new tab and see a page that says “You’ve opened a new tab” after you’ve followed the steps above, select the Don’t show this page again check box, and then click Close. When you restart Internet Explorer, your home page will display whenever you open a new tab.

Dr. Watson is a program error debugger that detects and diagnoses program errors and creates a log file that contains diagnostic data. In Windows XP the files are stored in the
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application\Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson folder.

To turn off the Dr Watson debugger

Start > Run - Type regedit
Then drill down to the path below.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
change the Auto Value from 1 to 0 disables Dr Watson

To re-enable Dr Watson, you can change Auto back to 1

Windows XP Service Pack 2 comes with a new way to manage your security in windows technologies. SP2 makes it easier to monitor your security with Windows Security Center.

The Security Center lets you check the status of your essential security settings. You can also use it to find information about the latest virus or other security threat or to get customer support from Microsoft for a security-related issue.

1. Go to Start > Control Panel
2. Double Click Security Center

Windows Security Center will check if you are uptodate

Software Firewall
Antivirus Program up-to-date
Windows Auto Updates is setup

If the Security Center detects that you may need updates, three essential areas listed above, it displays an alert in the notification area (to the right of the taskbar, above the clock). You will see an alert like the one below every time you log on, until the problem is fixed.

If you need to address a problem, click any alert and the Security Center will open. In the Security Center, click Recommendations.