Vince’s Tech Tips - Disable Fast User Swiching in Vista and Win7, Dump IP and Reapply

Vince Meek, one of our professional Network Engineers here at Alliance Technologies, offers some friendly tech tips to help your IT Department and general users alike.

Disable Fast User Switching - Vista/Win7

Open gpedit.msc by typing into a command line. Navigate to the following:

Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Logon/Hide Entry Points for Fast User Switching

This month, Vince got a little help for the tech tips section from Brian Hammond, who provides this great tech tip:

Dump IP Info and Reapply It

Here’s an easy way to dump the IP info to a text file and then reapply it.

To dump the IP config using netsh from a command line, run this command: netsh interface ip dump > c:\ipconfig.txt

Since Windows will most likely see the new NIC as “Local Area Connection 2” (or something similar) you have to modify the above text file and change the NIC name to match the new NIC’s name. Or change the new NIC’s name on the host to match what’s in the file above. Either way works.

To re-import it, use this command: netsh -c interface –f c:\ipconfig.txt This really comes in handy when you have a lot of DNS servers, WINS servers, etc and/or multiple IPs on the same NIC.

Thanks for helping us out, Brian! Tune in next month (and every month after that) for more tech tips, same tech time, same tech channel.