Bypass traverse checking Access Right

Policy Setting Location:

Open the group policy which defines this settings, this is usually a default domain controller policy. You can open group policies using Group Policy Object Editor, this console is by default installed on windows operating system. Fastest way of opening group policy object editor is to execute command “gpedit.msc” from Run prompt.  Under group policy object expand

“Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment”, on right hand side you will see the policy “Bypass traverse checking”.

Policy Description:

This user right determines which users can traverse directory trees even though the user may not have permissions on the traversed directory.

The users having this privilege are not able to list the contents of a directory, they can only traverse directories.

This user right is defined in the Default Domain Controller Group Policy object (GPO) and in the local security policy of workstations and servers.

The default groups that have this right on each platform are:

• Workstations and Servers
• Administrators
• Backup Operators
• Power Users
• Users
• Everyone
• Domain Controllers
• Administrators
• Authenticated Users
• Everyone

Once you change this setting you should restart the machine or at least execute following command from command prompt:

gpupdate /force

Executing this command will refresh the machine policy settings.

How to Use Scheduled Tasks

Windows has a good feature called Scheduled Task, which let user execute the specified task to execute daily, weekly, monthly, at the specified time. 


You can automate your different time consuming tasks on the times when you are not using your computer, such as disk cleanup, disk fragmentation, any many more. 


Follow below steps to use the create new scheduled task, steps are explained from the windows XP prespective.  

1. Open Control Panel from Start Menu or typing Control in the Run window.
2. Under Category View  of control panel select "Performance and Maintenance". If your control panel view is classic then you will directly find "Scheduled Tasks" folder like icon.
3. Under Scheduled Tasks, right click then Select New ->Scheduled Tasks.
4. Specify the Name for the New Task. Then right click the newly created task.
5. Select Properties.  This will show the properties window for the new schedule task. 

6. Under Run specify the executable you want to run as your schedule task. This can be any exe, batch file(.bat) or a script that you want to execute. 
7. In front of  "Run as: " provide the user name and valid password of the user, under this user context the schedule task will execute.

8. On Schedule tab, provide when, how frequently you want to execute the task.
9. Now press Apply then OK. Now your task is ready to execute at specified date time.

Modifying System Startup: To load selective startup

If your windows operating system is booting/running slow, then more number of unwanted program loading at startup might be one of the reason behind this.


You can load the selective startup, so that required programs only get loaded. Follow below steps to do this. 


Caution: Be sure that which programs you are going to remove from startup, because if you de-select programs such as device driver or any of the required services then the operating system might not function correctly.
  
1. Click Start, select Run.
2. Type msconfig. Click OK. This will launch dialog as below. 

3. Under startup selection click on Selective Startup.
4. Then Select Startup tab.

5. There you will find the programs that are going to be loaded at startup. 
6. By unselecting them, they will not load during startup.
7. Click Apply then OK.
8. It will show message box as below.

 9. Here click restart if you want to restart.