Oct 2
On Wednesday Microsoft released their new Anti Virus solution. It is free, and looks like a great product. I myself will be installing it this evening, and updating this post with some comments on performance, and real time scanning.
Here is the link!
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/
Sep 15
I have to thank Morgan Che for posting this excellent article on fixing the An authentication error has occurred (Code: 0×80070574).
Her post on http://www.vistax64.com/vista-networking-sharing/166833-problem-remoting-vista-enterprise-system.html
In Remote Desktop Connection 6.0, server authentication verifies that you
are connecting to the correct remote computer or server, which may lead to
some incompatibility issue.
So, could you confirm if you use Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 client to
connect Vista?
Before Vista, Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 has been included in the
following OS:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
If so, please edit Default.rdp file as following steps to turn off the new
features in Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 to revert to the features in
Remote Desktop Connection 5.x.
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type mstsc.exe, and then click OK.
2. Click Options, and then click the General tab.
3. Click Save As, and then type a file name in the File name box.
4. Select the location where you want to save the remote desktop file,
click Save, and then click Cancel.
Note The saved file has the .rdp file name extension.
5. Click Start, click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.
6. On the File menu, click Open.
7. In the Files of type list, click All Files.
8. In the Look in list, locate and then click the file that you saved in
step 4. Then, click Open.
9. Locate the line that resembles the following:
authentication level:i:n
Note The n placeholder represents the current authentication level.
10. Change the authentication level to 0 so that the line becomes the
following:
authentication level:i:0
Note When you set the authentication level to 0, RDP 6.0 does not check for
server authentication.
11. Add the following line to the end of the file:
enablecredsspsupport:i:0
Note When this line is present, you do not have to provide credentials
before you establish a remote desktop connection.
12. On the File menu, click Save.
More information, please see:
Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 prompts you for credentials before you
establish a remote desktop connection
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941641
In addition, please also install hotfixs for Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
client, which can be achieved from:
Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
http://technet2.microsoft.com/window…-7038-4e82-a32
c-4bc10ffe56ab1033.mspx?mfr=true
Jul 21
One really annoying bug? in windows 7 is that Windows Live Messenger runs on the taskbar, and not the notifications area where your normally use to checking.
To fix this annoyance is really easy.
EXAMPLE: Windows Live Messenger taskbar icon
1. If you have Windows Live Messenger running, close all conversations and exit Windows Live Messenger.
2. Browse to the Windows Live Messenger folder; they will be in different locations, depending on which version OS you are running.
x86 System (32bit) C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
x64 System C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
3. Right click on the msnmsgr.exe file, and go to "Properties"
4. Next, click the "Compatibility" tab shown in the image below.
5. Click "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" Windows Vista (any option other than Windows 7 works fine)
5. Click on OK.
6. Open Windows Live Messenger to see it’s icon location now. (Messenger may seem to be installing something, don’t freak, everything is fine. 
Enjoy using messenger the way it was meant to be!
Something Microsoft has always been lacking in vs Mac and Linux OS has been theme’s, and appearance.
Although this isn’t really a big deal, and ad’s no real functionality, it is a very nice visual enhancement, and if your on your PC all day, it’s nice to switch it up every now and again.
With the launch of Windows 7 due shortly, I’ve been using RCO for quite some time now, and just stumbled across this today. Great themes, and the greatest thing is that most of them come with multiple desktop backgrounds that are very appealing, and automatically change (to a time you can set, default 15 minutes)
I find it really enjoyable, and figured I’d share it with you all!.
You can visit the page here.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/downloads/personalize?T1=tab01
I found a really nice utility on-line http://www.iaza.com that can help you take any old JPEG or other format picture, and turn it into a transparent PNG file with ease!
It has a tremendous amount of other useful tools that I haven’t played with yet, but if they work any bit as good as the “Transform – Transparent” feature I’m sold!
Props to iaza.. Great tool guys!
Automating IIS7 backups with vbs script.
Dim fileName
Dim WSHNetwork
Dim shareName: shareName = WScript.Arguments(0)
Dim xmldom : set xmldom = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")
Dim fpc : set fpc = WScript.CreateObject("Fpc.Root")
Dim array : set array = fpc.GetContainingArray
set WSHNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
fileName=shareName & "\ISA Config – " & WSHNetwork.ComputerName & " – " & _
Year(Now) & "-" & Month(Now) & "-" & Day(Now) & ".xml"
array.Export xmldom, 0
xmldom.save(fileName)
copy above script into notepad, save the file as filename.vbs
May 29
So you’ve checked everything you can think of, and one of your drives (hard drive, usb stick, usb drive) has become write protected, and you have no idea why..
The solution my friend is "DiskPart".
Open a command prompt window (start –> run –> type in the run window cmd
In the command prompt type "diskpart"
Type "list volume"
this will list all the drives on your computer and give them all volume numbers.
Next you want diskpart to set focus on the write protected drive "select volume #" which ever volume is the disk in question.
Now enter "attributes disk clear readonly" and then type "attributes volume clear readonly"
Check the drive in question, you should now be able to access the disk with full permissions. Hope this helps.
May 21
use this command to make sure VT (Virtualization Technology) and NX (No-Execute) are enabled.
wevtutil.exe qe System /q:"*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Hypervisor'] and (Level=2)]]" /rd:true /f:text /c:5
Example output of a system with NX not running:
Event[0]:
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Hypervisor
Date: 2009-05-20T19:19:24.891
Event ID: 52
Task: N/A
Level: Error
Opcode: Info
Keyword: N/A
User: S-1-5-18
User Name: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: uhura
Description: Hyper-V launch failed; No-execute (NX) or DEP not enabled on processor 0×0 (check BIOS settings).
May 2
My host Windows 2008 x64 (Core) Enterprise Edition with Hyper-V is running on an HP DL140, 1.6Ghz Xeon Quad Core, 16GB Memory, RAID1 (Mirrored) 146GB SAS drive configuration.
For the Guest operating system I will be using the Windows 7 RC0 released on TechNet early last week. The guest is configured with 2GB of memory, 1 network adapter connected to my local network. The processor is configured to use 4 core’s, and the VHD file is living on the Hosts C:\ drive.
Here are some screen shots during the installation.. I will explain the performance and usability I received while demoing Windows 7 Ultimate.
at this point it hung for about 9 minutes on “Preparing your desktop” (not sure if it’s maybe doing the performance testing at Vista does?
Although the Operating System is getting closer to release, I fail to see any major improvements. I will continue my investigation by using it on my desktop where I will be doing everything from photo editing in Photoshop, web design in expressions, heavy office and RSAT usage. A follow up post to come.
Apr 7
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Most of the links out there right now are actually dead. here are some updated links to download Remote Server Administration Tools for Vista SP1 Hyper-V MMC |
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