The Internet is getting pretty dangerous, especially for anyone running a Windows 2000/XP machine. Wouldn’t it be nice to surf the web from your Windows box using a Linux browser? You can, using Virtualbox + UBuntu + Seamless Mode. You can see this in action: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/virtualboxs-seamless-mode-combine-operating-systems-desktop/ The process is very simple: Install Virtualbox into your Windows [...]
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Data Recovery Fun
I recently had a D630 laptop hard drive go bad. Of course, there had to be 18GB of user data on it. Windows wouldn’t boot in normal or safe mode. Upon booting the laptop with WinPE, I could see all of the data was still intact. I attempted to copy the data through Windows’ XCOPY [...]
Sysinternals Tools Updated
Some interesting enhancements to some of Sysinternals tools: Autoruns v10: This major update to Autoruns introduces the ability to scan offline Windows installations, adds.exe and .cmd extension handlers, defaults to hiding Windows entries to reduce noise in the common use case, and includes bug fixes. Process Explorer v12.04: This Process Explorer release adds the ability [...]
The GPO That Couldn’t
After many sweet years, we finally bid farewell to Internet Explorer 6. We planned to deploy Internet Explorer 7 via a Software Installation GPO. After making the IE 7 MSI with the IEAK, we assigned it as a GPO. As soon as the computer would reboot, the MSI would be assigned, install and restart the [...]
A Very Fast Search Utility for Windows
I use Agent Ransack at home and at work for searching for files, but just recently I found Ultrasearch made by the guys that created Treesize. The file search works by searching the MFT of NTFS directly instead of drilling down into the file system itself or an index. The nice thing is that not only [...]
Fun with Virtual Machines
Virtualbox from Sun Microsystems is very cool. The snapshot feature is priceless for testing application deployments. One of the annoying things, however, is the eventual loss of domain membership. Eventually Windows changes the computer account password, you snapshot back the VM to a time where the password was different and it loses its domain membership. [...]
Spruce Up That Old Windows Explorer
From time to time, I go and search for a better file manager, but I always come back to the built-in Windows Explorer. Instead of completely replacing Windows Explorer, you can add some neat functionality to it. You can do this with FileMenu Tools which was recently reviewed by TechPP.com and is freeware! It has neat [...]
Giveaway – EASEUS Partition Master Professional 4.1.1 until 2/20/10
Enjoy Free Partition Management Software Now! EASEUS Partition Master Professional is comprehensive hard disk partition management tool and system partition optimization software; it can let you enjoy all the powerful basic and advanced partition functions for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 32/64 bit users. Free until 2/20/10
A Quick Way to View BSOD Minidumps
I found this program called BlueScreenView. It is quite handy as it can open up memory dumps without having WinDBG installed, can open them remotely through c$ shares, is portable, easy to use and the best part: it’s free! Below you can see it in action. This was on a Dell D600 laptop who’s motherboard [...]
Flaky NIC Hits Too Close to Home
Usually these type of problems happen at work, but this one hit too close to home. A few weeks ago the Internet connection on my PC dropped. NIC showed an error status. I power cycled my router and went on my merry way, until it happened again. I went to another PC with a wireless [...]
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