Category: Windows 7

In the last number of years many businesses have started rolling out Full Disk Encryption software throughout their IT Environment’s enabling piece of mind and security to prevent Data Loss / Theft, but this introduced many different issues for IT Administrators in general. Later iterations of Encryption products allowed...

After uninstalling Google Chrome it seems outlook has decided to have a complex about it, when clicking a link in an email I get the following message: It turns out, it’s a pretty common error after uninstalling chrome http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4c894d24ab6fac2d&hl=en The fix is relatively easy: 1. Click Start, click Run,...

My colleague Alex Verboon posted up a link to a great tool the other day for GPO. Take a look: http://gps.cloudapp.net/...

Pet hate of mine is creation of new computer accounts (ahhh) for machines that have been reimaged, rejoining the same account is actually really simple! Open up AD Users & Computers Find your computer account Right click an hit “Reset” Join the computer to the domain with the old...

As consultants we always have the challenge of migrating from one Desktop OS to a Newer Version and normally we stick to the same products: USMT, SCCM and Radia CAE; Its rare that we deviate from this because we know that USMT + SCCM or Radia is bullet proof,...

Mitch Garvis has a great article on running Windows 7 with BootCamp on Intel Based Macs. See here: Click Here...

What does Hydraq do? Hydraq is a targeted attack that installs itself on a user’s computer or an organization’s server. It then can be used to search an organization for private information. Hydra can capture and forward all information from an infected computer, including a live feed of windows...

My Colleague Alex Verboon has a great article on updating your Group Policy Central Store with your Windows 7 ADMX templates, a must for any GPO Administrator. http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2009/11/updating-the-central-store-for-windows-7-group-policy-administrative-templates/ Michael...

Thanks to one of my colleagues for showing me this, its really cool! Daily Bing search engine images consist of awesome collection of photos from amazing nature photos to holiday sensitive events. If you  really don’t have time to change desktop wallpaper then you can use this great feature...

With all the stuff in our modern operating systems its easy to take the small things for granted. Booting your Windows 7 install off your USB Key, watching videos on youtube, RSS’ing up your Favourite news / comic feeds, listening to your favourite music over Spotify or finishing your...