November 30

SonicWall Disable Zone Interface Trust

By default the LAN Zone has Interface Trust enabled, which means all interfaces within the same Zone trust each other (pass traffic). Go to Network, Zones, and Edit the Zone in question (LAN) and remove the checkmark from Allow Interface Trust. This will remove the auto-added LAN<->LAN Allow ANY/ANY/ANY rule.

By default traffic between Zones is only allowed from “more trusted” to “less trusted” (but not the other way. Eg. from LAN to DMZ but not DMZ to LAN).

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November 21

Windows Missing Shortcut Arrow

Desktop shortcut icons showing up as missing-shortcut-iconmissing images

Download the icon file, and create a folder c:\icons\, place the icon file there.

  1. Click Start, type regedit.exe and press ENTER
  2. Navigate to the following branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons
  1. In the right pane, create a new String value (REG_SZ) named 29
  2. Double-click 29 and set its Value data as C:\Icons\blank.ico
  3. Close Regedit.exe and restart Windows
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November 3

Remove “Get Internet Ready” Internet Explorer First Run Welcome Screen

It is annoying.  “Install free antivirus from Microsoft and enable recommended settings” appears every time when running I.E.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
  • click on the right pane and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  • Enter DisableFirstRunCustomize.
  • Right-click on the new entry it and choose “Modify”.
  • Modify DWORD (32-bit) Value to 1 (without the quotes) and click OK.

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