Phpmyadmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Since Windows doesn’t include a GUI  managment tool for Mysql, you will need to install phpMyadmin to acess a GUI  rather than administratering Mysql via the command line interface.

Please be sure that your php installation already has the GD/GD2 Library, Mysql and MBString extensions active. You can see this by going to your IIS server and accessing the php test page. If you do not have one, you can make one by going to “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ and my creating a text with the following line;

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Save the file as phptest.php.

This will allow you to goto Http://localhost/phptest.php. If you don’t see the Mysql or MBstring sections, you will need to have them enabled to proceed as phpMyadmin requires this.
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To resize a partition with Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008, follow these steps:

Be sure to back up any valuable information, because there is a slight chance that data can be lost when dealing with partitions.

1) Click on the Start menu

2) Right click on Computer and click on Manage.


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3) Open up the Storage category and click on Disk Management on the left hand panel.


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Windows 2008, by default has all ICMP requests turned off. This of course can cause issues with ping requests or using any type of monitors that ping the server for heartbeats. However turning this option on isn’t exactly how it was in Windows 2003 and it’s not located in the Windows firewall settings.  To enable it, you have to goto the Windows firewall with advanced security settings, which is in the administrative tools section.
To get to the Windows firewall with advanced security, you’ll need to goto the control panel and the administrative tools. You can also goto to the administrative tools directly if there is a link in your programs bar.

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Once there , look inside of the inbound ruleset and scroll down to the file and printer sharing. You’ll need to right click and enable the “FIle and Printer Sharing (echo request - ICMPv4-in) rule.

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This will enable the rule and it will no longer bt grayed out (it will be green now).

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You can also enable thiss by running the following command from the Windows command prompt.

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

To disable incoming ICMP requests, type the following.

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
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To disable Windows 7 / Vista from downloading automatic updates, follow these simple steps.

Open Start menu, right-click on Computer and click Properties. This will open System dialog box that will show basic information about your computer. On the left sidebar, under See also heading, you will find Windows Update. Clicking it will bring you to the Windows Update dialog box, now on the left sidebar click on Change Settings. You will now see a window that will look like this,

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You will notice that Windows has enabled option as default, to disable it, simply select Never check for updates and you are done.

Note: Microsoft recommends that you must keep your windows up-to-date in order to remain secure. And I recommend the same, my computer is always up-to-date, this is one reason I never get attacked by any kind of virus.

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1. To get started, lets
goto the Server Manager and open up the IIS manager. You can do this by
going to Start -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services
(IIS) Manager.

2.Once IIS Manager opens,
expand out the web server and then expand the Sites folder. Right click
on sites and then click on Add Web Site

3. In the Add Web Site
window we have some basic information to fill out for a static site:

  • Site Name – Name of the site, this will be
    either domain.com or *.domain.com (Where * would represent a sub
    domain name such as www or blog for example).
  • Physical Path – The location on the local
    server that will hold the files for the website. If you did not set
    this up beforehand you can create a folder through this interface.
  • Type – choose either http or https depending
    on whether your site will use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate
    or not.
  • IP Address – From the dropdown you can
    specify what IP the website should answer on or use the default
    switch of All Unassigned. Now, if you have multiple IP addresses,
    you can simply choose the one you wish to assign to the website as
    well. Lastly, if you even neeed to change the IP address, you can do
    so by going back and clicking on binding’s, which will take you to
    the section that allows IP address changes.
  • Host Name – If you would like this site to
    respond to other domain names you can put these here.
4. That’s it. You’ve just configured your
first website in IIS7. While it is a bit different from IIS6, the
process is still the same.

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