This has been an annoyance for many versions of Windows starting somewhere around the Vista \ Server 2008 time frame. PROBLEM: If you use Robocopy to copy folders they will be set to HIDDEN and the HIDDEN check box will be greyed out… can you say anoying. CAUSE: The HIDDEN […]
This was surprisingly tricking issue to deal with. If you are copying TO or FROM a Deduplicated file share you must make certain: Do NOT robocopy the a partition or volume – only robocopy shares\folders. This is because the dedup information is stored in the SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION folder and […]
There are several ways to do this but most likely if you are asking this question, you just want to get the “old” Windows 95/98/2000/XP/Vista/7 desktop experience back and that means two things: Not starting with the Tiled interface Having a Start Button Both of these issues can be resolved […]
My God this has frustrated me. You likely know that Microsoft has removed the start button from Windows 8 and early versions of third party coded Start buttons were unusable… not anymore! There are now several answers and I will begin with the two I most like. 1: CLASSIC SHELL […]
If your AD account becomes locked over and over again (especially after a recent password change), it is likely something on your PC/Server has cached the old password and is causing the account to lock. There are several ready places to look for this… and I will get to those […]
After playing with this bizarre Google Earth (GE) problem for some time and reading dozens of very frustrated blogers end their threads with “… and the only way I could get it to work was to wipe my PC and perform a fresh Windows install”, I got creative. Being unable […]
The solution is to: click START (gets you to the tiles) type RUN type slui 3 and press ENTER yes, SLUI: which stands for SOFTWARE LICENSING USER INTERFACE SLUI 1 brings up the activation status window SLUI 2 brings up the activation window SLUI 3 brings up the CHANGE PRODUCT KEY window SLUI […]
In Windows 7 and Vista you could do this by clicking START, WINDOWS SECURITY and then RESTART. Apparently WINDOWS SECURITY link has been removed from Win8 sooo I can think of just two ways to easily reboot a Win8 machine from an RDP session: on the tile page type RUN (select […]
I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent […]
Um, yes it does! Win8 Defender now includes Security Essentials. Here is the official word direct from Microsoft “Windows 8 Release Preview comes with Windows Defender, which has been improved in Windows 8 to provide the same level of malware protection as Microsoft Security Essentials. You do not need to […]
It appears that Microsoft has depricated Gadgets in favour of Tiled Apps in Windows 8, so know you have four choices: Use the half dozen Gadgets built into Windows 7 andVista Use the 35 or so more Windows Gadgets found on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets?SignedIn=1 Search (Bing, Google…) for specific Gadgets and download […]
What this means is that there is a pre-Beta of the next version of Office, but you can’t get it. “Not since Office 2003 has Microsoft taken such an “ambitious undertaking” to reinvent the productivity suite. Today, PJ Hough, CVP of development for Microsoft’s Office division, announced the “technical preview” […]
“ReFs” or Resilient File System is a new file system written from scratch for Windows 8. ReFs is compatible with NTFS and is supposed to reduce complexity while being able to automatically detect corruption on RAIDed disks. “…Together, Storage Spaces and ReFS have been architected with headroom to innovate further, and […]
The short answer is, almost all Windows (INCLUDING Windows 7 HOME – see the last paragraph in this message for details) and Mac operating systems; the long answer is: Operating system Supported Domain Join Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional, Enterprise (x86 and x64) Yes Yes Windows 7 Home Premium, Basic, Starter […]
To Factory Reset your switch, which will include setting resetting the password, Short Answer: On older 3Com SuperStack switches (like the SuperStack II 9300 and 3000) use: Login: 3comcso Password: RIP000 On newer 3Com SuperStack switches (like the SuperStack 3 3848 and 4200G) use: Login: recover Password: recover Long Answer: […]
There are serveral ways but, if you have a serial console cable you can set the IP using the following process: Get a serial console cable. Note that I went through several of them before I found one that would let me SEND characters to the device; I could see […]