Notes for self on how to do this. Start Local Group Policy Editor. From start menu type gpedit.msc and hit enter. Navigate the left pane: User Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Explorer On right hand side find: Turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.dg files...
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I've recently discovered (been introduced to) the runas command line utility which I was previously unaware of. This command allows you to run in the context of another user which is particularly useful if you are testing access permissions under different user names. The syntax is: runas /user:mydomain...
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I've been trying to install Windows Update KB968930 on my XP SP3 machine and kept on getting this error: Windows Management Framework Core Setup Error Setup cannot proceed. Windows Management Framework Core is already installed on your system. This update, I believe, is Powershell 2.0 (final) To install...
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I frequently need to view two web pages side by side but I find that I have those two web pages open in separate tabs in the same browser. What I used to do would be the following: Copy the URL from one of the tabs. Minimize all windows on the desktop (Win + D) Open a second browser. Paste in the URL...
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After installing SpamBayes Addin for Outlook 2007 on my Server 2008 x64 "workstation" I started receiving the following message when starting up Outlook 2007: "Outlook experienced a serious problem with the 'spambayes' add-in." The fix was to disable DEP for that application. To do...
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I bought an Acer laptop a couple of years ago just before Vista came out. It touted a free upgrade to Vista because Vista was imminent. Fair enough I thought, I'll still get Vista and don't have to wait so I went ahead with the purchase. The real story behind the free upgrade was that (1) I had to wait...
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I'm ready to move on to Windows 7. Most of the reports and experiences that I've read have been very positive. In fact I don't recall anything negative that I've heard about Windows 7 that would impact me. My main desktop machine is running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The reason that I selected this...
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Just been trying to troubleshoot why I couldn't ping any of the other computers on my network from one of my laptops. I still haven't fully solved the problem but I've managed to get the piece of software to work that I needed to get to work by following an excellent tip from amcmillan after asking "...
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I'm running Windows Server 2008 as a workstation. I ran into the usual problems with UAC and eventually disabled it. My logic is this: On XP we didn't have UAC and I never got into trouble. The reason that I didn't get into trouble is because I'm a highly sophisticated user (software developer). I don...
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Just been doing some testing on running VPN on a VM and on the host OS. The host in this case is Server 2008 x64 and the VM software is Hyper-V and the guest VM is Vista x64. As expected, the OS running VPN takes on the IP address of the VPN while host or guest will continue to use the original IP that...
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