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Windows Vista

Bring back the classic start menu in Windows 7

July 16, 2010
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I was not a big fan of the new start menu in Windows 7, and Vista. Especially since Microsoft made it impossible to switch back. Over time I grew to like it. What about those users who aren’t on the computer every day? Many of them have a hard enough time just getting the computer [...]

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Windows 7 – "Identifying Network" (Resolved)

October 7, 2009

I was at a friends house last weekend. I found a very interesting problem with Windows 7. They had a laptop they just purchased in Taiwan, and no matter how they tried to connect it to their network, it would always say “Identifying Network”: Now, in the screen shot it is the wireless network, but [...]

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Windows XP vs Windows 7 – Who Won?

September 10, 2009

I installed Windows 7 on my ASUS Atom N270 Before I did that, I recorded how long it took to do a few things: -Copying a 45 MB file over the network -Boot Time -Shutdown Time -Memory used at idle, after startup -IE Launch time Then, after I installed Windows 7, I did the same, [...]

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Remote Control 4.0 Released

June 19, 2009

This is a quick one – The final version of Remote Control 4.0 has been released. Current customers with an upgrade protection license should receive their email within 24 hours. If you did not, please send an email to support@intelliadmin.com and we will take care of you as soon as possible. Here are the screenshots: [...]

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Clean boot into Windows 2008, and Vista

June 1, 2009

I was troubleshooting a server yesterday and a came across an easy way to clean boot into Vista, or 2008. When I say clean boot I mean that Windows starts without any 3rd party services running. To do it, startup MSCONFIG, (Start then run…type msconfig.exe) Once it launches, move over to the services tab: Then [...]

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Remote Control 4.0 Beta

May 26, 2009

We have been working hard on the new version of IntelliAdmin Remote Control. Some things that will be in the new version: Screen scaling – The client will automatically shrink the view to fit the screen within the window. With huge resolutions, you no longer are forced to constantly scroll around Alpha Capture Disable – [...]

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Delete files securely

May 13, 2009

Since 2000 every version of Windows uses object reuse protection. When you create a file, the space on the hard drive for that file will be zeroed out. Another way of looking at this is when a file is created, Windows will make it impossible to see what was there before. But what about right [...]

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Write script results to the event log

May 12, 2009

I have quite a few scripts that are run by task scheduler on my server.  One of the ways I track the results is by writing to a text file in a common share. After a while this can become a little ridiculous to follow. Recently I discovered that it is possible to create your [...]

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Prevent users from clearing history in IE 7

December 18, 2008

This tip is only for Vista….so I apologize in advance to those of you still using XP. In Vista you can easily clear your browsing history by going into the options of Internet Explorer. I have helped a few organizations that use this information after a spyware incident to determine where the problem came from. [...]

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Enabling File and Printer Sharing – FPEnabler.exe

December 11, 2008

We started out this week thinking that we would update FPEnabler.exe. We released this free program about a year ago, but we had to pull it from our website because it was breaking every few months with new patches released by Microsoft. FPEnabler simplified the process of adding a file and printer sharing exception to [...]

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