How to Download Google Chrome Offline (Standalone) Installer Plus a possible downside of doing this By default, the Google Chrome browser can currently only be downloaded and installed while connected to the Internet. The small file you download will start the installer, which will then go to the Internet to download the rest of the Google Chrome files. However, for IT administrators who want to install Chrome on computers not connected to the Internet or want to install Chrome on to many computers at once, this is not a very good option....

How to Change an Apache Server Listening Port If port 80 is already taken Last week, I encountered a server with its HTTPS port 80 already taken by another software. The “culprit” was unsurprisingly another web server software, namely IIS. Because the IIS users are already accustomed to the default port, the Apache installation had no choice but to use a less popular port for HTTP, in this case case port 81....

How to Turn Off IE Enhanced Security Configuration But be careful when you go browsing By default, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 ship with Internet Explorer in Enhanced Security configuration, which is basically a locked down version that adds a bit of extra security to your servers. However, if you know what you are doing, you might want to disable IE enhanced security configuration to get rid of the annoying messages....

How to Configure Interrupt Request (IRQ) Priorities in Windows A real improvement or a placebo tweak? Most components directly attached to your motherboard—including PCI slots, IDE controllers, serial ports, the keyboard port, and even your motherboard’s CMOS—have individual interrupt requests (IRQs) assigned to them. An interrupt request line, or IRQ, is a numbered hardware line over which a device can interrupt the normal flow of data to the processor, allowing the device to function....

How to Force Group Policy Update in Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 8 and 10 Plus how to refresh group policy remotely As an IT Administrator, there are many times when I make a change to Group Policy in Active Directory and need to manually refresh the policy on a client machine. Depending on which OS you are running, the command to refresh group policy is different. Also, there is a difference between refreshing a policy and forcing a policy refresh....