Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/02
When you do not have DSA.msc installed in Windows 7, you cannot perform the “Active Directory Users and Computers”, which is a very valuable tool to browse/edit a Windows Active directory.
The How to access DSA.msc in windows 7 explains on how to install it, but when your Windows installation is not allowed to add/remove Windows features, you need to download it the .msu, then install it.
The download depends on your Windows service pack. For Windows 7 SP 1, it is here (it is about 230 megabyte):
Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with SP1 from Official Microsoft Download Center.
You can download both an x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) version.
–jeroen Install Group Policy and AD Tools on Windows 7.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/01
On an old Windows XP machine srunning SP3, the .NET framework updates provided by MicrosoftUpdate.
One of the affected updates was An update is available for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003: June 2013.
It would throw errors 0x643 (also known as 0x80070643) when installing, even after a clean reboot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/22
I always forget this one:
The keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a report-mode (also known as Details mode) list view control to fit the current content width is Ctrl+Num+. That’s the + key on the numeric keypad.
–jeroen
via Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/15
Every once in a while, a hidden POWERPNT.EXE consumes 100% of one CPU core (on a single core, that is deadly, on a multi-core system it drains your battery pretty fast).
This was the cause:
One reason is you have preview pane enabled and have selected a PowerPoint File. To preview it an invisible copy of PowerPoint is opened and may not close when you deselect. This doesn’t normally use much cpu though.
–jeroen
via PowerPoint high cpu usage.
Posted in Office, Power Point, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
When doing a lot of remote desktop and VM work from a Mac to Windows machines, the Mission Control shortcuts (like Ctrl Up/Down) often get in the way.
Since I hardly use Mission Control anyway (I run VMs and remote machines to really cut dependencies: far stronger than multiple desktops), I just disabled all the Mission Control keyboard shortcuts you see here:
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Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/03
On my MacBook Retina, SugarSync prompts me to install 2.0.27, and directs me to the SugarSync 2.0 Release Notes that only lists me 2.0.23. Time to skip a version…
–jeroen
via: SugarSync 2.0 Release Notes – desktop and web apps – current release.
Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, Power User, Windows | Tagged: Apple, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/21
If you ever wondered why how in Windows – as of Vista – the NCIS (network connection status indicator) determines if you have a valid internet connection, it is pretty simple, as both these pages explain:
NCIS depends on the msftncis.com domain (link to the checks from IntoDNS) and is for supporting Network Awareness in applications.
The probing is done in this order: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Captive Portal, DNS, Internet, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/13
Interesting thread: Thinstuff Remote Application – NLDelphi.
Allows remote application access from Windows 7 / Vista / XP and Windows SBS, and it looks like you don’t need special CAL for it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/10
(note: part of this post is unfinished, but I wanted to make sure all the links are publicly accessible, so I posted earlier and incomplete)
I already did a few ESXi5 postings (they apply to 5.1 as well) of which the most important are:
Time to finish up some additional installation steps (with a big thanks to Matthijs ter Woord):
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Posted in BIOS, Boot, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, Hardware, HP XW6600, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, PowerCLI, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, Wake-on-LAN (WoL), Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
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