Installing Telnet on Windows Vista

By default Microsoft Windows Vista does not come with the telnet client available. Telnet is useful when troubleshooting various types of network issues and it’s helpful to have.
Follow these steps to install telnet on Windows Vista:
By default, Vista doesn’t install the Telnet client. The client is for text-based communication with remote systems. You can install [...]

Testing SMTP on Exchange

While the following guide on testing SMTP functionality on Microsoft Exchange Server is specific to MS Exchange, it should work for most SMTP servers, as well:

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This article describes how to telnet to port 25 on a computer that runs Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) services to troubleshoot SMTP communication problems. The information in this article, [...]

Determine Video Card Memory from within Windows

To determine the size of your video card’s memory within windows open a command prompt and type ‘dxdiag’
Microsoft’s description:
The Display tab also lists your device’s available memory and can tell you if your video driver has passed Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) testing regimen by checking whether the WHQL Logo’d [...]