Windows 98, Where it all started for me
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...
Windows Ads – Win 95 to Windows 7
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8 Things To Think About For Windows 7
Great article on some things to think about with Windows 7 http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301670&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Security...
IPAQ Data Messenger Sly
Ok let me start off by saying the legal stuff: This represents my Opinion and not that of my Employer or its subsidiaries Let me start off by saying, i used to love iPAQ’s they were at one stage advanced devices at the time but the market has changed...
Exchange 2007 not supported on 2008 R2
So there you have it, Windows Server 2008 R2 will not Support Exchange 2007 running on it, however if you are running Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers you will be unaffected. Several posts on this on the net but the best most reliable public reference i have found is...
Internet Explorer Crashes on Start
So you got the error to say “Internet Explorer has stopped responding”, Windows goes and try’s to collate data and send it back to Microsoft… Normal enough yeh ? So you go to open it up again and hey presto its done the same thing… After this you restart...
Finding when a user last logged on
In this case ADSIEdit.msc is our friend (this is found on the Windows 2003 support pack or from the Administrative tools on your 2008 DC / in the RSAT pack on Windows Vista / 7. So open up adsiedit.msc Connect to your Domain Naming context, navigate to the users...
Windows 7 Skype Bug
So you’ve got Windows 7 and Skype installed; Your browsing your sites and suddenly you get a “Internet Explorer has stopped responding” message… Odd It hasn’t crashed ? All my tabs are the same…. Good news, its just the Skype ActivX addins, for some reason crashing or terminating abnormally....
Microsoft Security Essentials
There has been a lot of talk about Microsoft Security Essentials (Codename Morro) so i decided to acquire a copy from a colleague at HP for testing. So i fired up my lab pc’s, which include a few flavours of Windows, including 32bit and 64bit Versions of Vista....
Group Policy & Internet Explorer
Its a problem come across most often, you change something in your internet explorer Group Policy Object and now suddenly a dozen or so users are getting the information bar or have popup’s informing them they are switching to https connections. Anyone who has worked with group policy will...