What you do is go to Network and Sharing Center and click on the change adapter settings link. From there, if you have the Desktop Experience installed, you might not have the menu bar running across the top. You need to hit the Alt button on your keyboard in order to get the menu bar [...]
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Use Windows 7’s Previous Versions to Go Back in Time and Save Your Files
Previous Versions is an incredibly useful feature built into Windows 7, which allows the OS to record and view earlier versions of files without a flux capacitor. Here’s a detailed guide to using this excellent feature. This feature goes beyond the functionality of the Recycle Bin as it allows you to: Recover files you may [...]
Cleaning up the WINSXS folder in Windows 7 SP1
Earlier I wrote about the WINSXS directory in Windows Vista and Windows 2008. In Windows 7 the cleanup tool is changed. Just like it changed with Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista en Windows 2008. The new command is: DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded Remember: This command requires elevated command prompt and you cannot uninstall the [...]
UAC Virtualization – Allowing standard users to update a system protected area
You should know the score by now – I install application FOO into “C:\Program Files\Foo Inc\Foo” and it has a built-in manifest stating that asInvoker is used for its requested privilege level, allowing standard users to run it. Attempts by standard users to write to “C:\Program Files\Foo Inc\Foo” do not fail with “access denied” (as [...]
MPIO between Storage Server and clients in a pure Hyper-V environment
1) open the iSCSI initiator 2) Add the two iSCSI portals (DNS, or IP if there are no name resolution in the private iSCSI network) 3) You will see the available targets in the Targets tab 4) Click connect 5) Check Enable multipath and add the specific target-initiator pair in one of the iSCSI networks [...]
List of users with their email adresses
csvde -f yourfile.csv -r “(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=user))” –l “sAMaccountname,mail” Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
Overscan Options in Catalyst 9.9 on Windows 7
I had enough trouble finding this option that i felt it worthy of a blog post. I’m not immediately sure how the Catalyst Control Center differs between Windows 7 and Windows XP, but I was able to find the Overscan/Underscan options a bit easier in XP. To access the Overscan option of your current display [...]
Automatically add email signatures/disclaimers with Exchange 2010
For many organizations, it’s a good idea to centrally manage email signatures and email disclaimers – it gives a consistent branding on your email communications, and you’re not relying on end users to set them up correctly and keep them consistent. If you’re running Microsoft Exchange 2010, you have the ability to do this out [...]
What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large?
UPDATE FOR WINDOWS 7 SP1 A commonly asked question among people looking at a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 installation is “why is the WinSxS folder so big?!” To answer that question I need to first describe componentization, and how components are managed in Windows Vista. One of the largest changes between previous versions [...]
Maximum size of deployment cache Java Web Start and Java Plug-in
The deployment.properties file is used for storing and retrieving deployment configuration properties in the Java Control Panel. They are also used for customizing runtime behavior for both Java Plug-in and Java Web Start. There is always a User-Level deployment.properties file. Its location, which is non-configurable, is described below. There may also be an (optional) System-Level [...]
