Disabling the Shutdown Event Tracker (via Regedit)

Just quick post to help those of you out there who seem to be having problems finding the Shutdown Event Tracker setting in gpedit (as I did). To disable the shutdown event tracker, you need to add/edit these two keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability]
"ShutdownReasonUI"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Reliability]
"ShutdownReasonOn"=dword:00000000

Or, if you prefer, here's a ready-to-use regedit file.

Squid: The request or reply is too large.

Today at work we had a complaint that one of our remote offices couldn't  make a new job posting to Monster.com. Many of our offices have transparent squid implemented, and this is one of them.

Then error that the user would see was:

The following error was encountered: The request or reply is too large.

According to a few places, the problem potentially lied with the reply_body_max_size setting. However, in most recent versions of Squid, this is set to unlimited by default. After some poking around in the Squid docs, I noticed that upping the reply_header_max_size setting from the default of 20 KB to 40 KB seems to resolve the issue. The applicable setting is:

reply_header_max_size 40 KB

If this setting does not work for you, try upping the request_header_max_size as well, which would cause failure for similar reasons. Good luck!