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One of the features I really like about Windows Vista and Windows 7 is the Windows Mobility Center.I have been using it without looking very deep into it, but today while my students are doing a lab, I looked into it a little bit more: and I ran into the following feature setting: When switching to presentation...
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Ever had it happen, that when you use Vista have EA stored in a database on the network are not part of the domain that EA keeps on asking for the password to connect to the database, no matter what you do? Strangely enough this does not happen within Windows XP. The solution to this problem is that...
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most of the people that installed XP saw or have used the unattend file creation tool. A little gem for sysadmins who want clean installs, but who do not want to do the click here type there scenario. For Vista there is no such thing on the DVD. reading and surfing on the web brought me to the this site...
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Steve Ballmer announced at the Gartner conference last week that there will be modifications in Vista to add Hyper-V to the system. Hyper-V willa lso integrate further into Server 2008. Microsoft will not wait for Windows 7 to integrate the Hypervisor technology in the client operating system. I am very...
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while reading up on some mail and feeds, I ran into this little gem here: a Sidebar gadget to keep track of your Hyper-V machines (on several parents…) http://mindre.net/post/Hyper-V-Monitor-Gadget-for-Windows-Sidebar.aspx
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I am working on the new beta of Microsoft Application Virtualization. I downloaded the 4.5 latest beta. I decided to build myself a new environment in Hyper-V and decided to build a DC server 2003 R2 SP2 and a Vista Business client. to separate several versions, i decided in all my wizdom to name the...
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In this video someone is presenting "a vista hack": http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html in this article there are the 10 Immutable Laws of Security, look at rule #3 where it states: "If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not...
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After I installed the K-Lite Codec pack, I sometimes get this Avi Chunk Viewer window at the most annoying times possible. It seems this is caused by a codec called Avi splitter. It pops up when there is an avi found with an incomplete footer. To remove the Avi Chunk Viewer, do the following: 1. Start...
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In this Blogpost , the terminal server team explains the reasons why the /console switch has disappeared and what the replacement /admin does for you.
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AHUM, may I please urge you guys to backup your boot configuration when installing a New version of f.i. Server 2008 on a dual boot system... I got it working again, and it took me not too much time, but..... EasyBCD did a lot for me today. (And in the process I saw that there is a way of backing up...
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eager to get the new Hyper-V working after two weeks of frustration that I got my hands on it, and not being able to get it installed because of the lack of available hardware, I installed the RC1 escrow build this afternoon. (Maybe you recall me having a new machine with a dual boot with my vista x64...
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some people do not know how to make up their mind. I was stunned by the following two titles on Vista vs Leopard from the same person. posted within two minutes: Why Leopard Is Better than Vista Posted at: October 29, 2007 4:16 PM and Why Leopard Isn't Better than Vista posted at: October 29, 2007 4...
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For those of you that use Windows Vista Ultimate and want to use your GPU and CPU a little more: Dreamscene is final and downloadable for you. Now you can have your much wanted animated desktops, your favorite moviescenes as the background of your work.
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It has arrived: the RC0 build of Windows Server 2008. Just as the first version of the beta of Vista SP1. I have my work cut out for me now. I am already downloading RC0, SP1 of vista will have to wait, I am teaching today and tomorrow, so no time to get into both things at the same time. first WSv than...
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What was used to be called Mandatory integrity Control is now called Windows Integrity Mechanism . for those of you who want to know more abpout it, on the MSDN library there is very nice information on this subject... And this time it's dev AND ItPro.... :-)