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Want to know what is changing or what's new in the Active Directory space from Win2k8? Then follow this link . I have to say that I am quite pleased with the Beta3 build that we are running in production (6001.16510). There have been no "show-stoppers"
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POWERCFG has the answer to that question and many others, like -LASTWAKE will tell you why your machine resumed form sleep or hibernate. I used to run into an issue where I'd wake up in the morning and find my laptop was at perfect temperature to cook
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Ran into a case today where NLTEST was returning RPC_S_UNKNOWN_IF. C:\Users\Administrator>nltest /sc_query:bradforest I_NetLogonControl failed: Status = 1717 0x6b5 RPC_S_UNKNOWN_IF C:\Users\Administrator>nltest /sc_reset:bradforest I_NetLogonControl
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http://www.hamaddarwish.com/content/index.html If you like the cool filters used in some of the vista backgrounds there are others available for high-res download. Excerpt: Below, is a photo collection of the images taken during Microsoft's Windows Vista
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You find yourself in a situation where you may want your app to run with privileges. In this case you want the app the prompt for elevation when its started. You could have the user just alt-click and runas administrator or you can put it in the manifest.
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This is a nice consolidated location for a lot of Vista drivers. Of course I make no guarantees if you install them. This page just has links to the pages from the manufacturer so you don't need to run around the entire interweb. http://www.radarsync.com/vista
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I've lately been sending people to Wikipedia for information on what's new in Windows Vista, but with the release of the Product Guide on microsoft.com I'll be sending them to this download location now. A comprehensive feature-by-feature guide to Windows
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So I ran into a situation last week where I wanted to filter the event log in Vista to only show events in the Application log that contained the string msnmsgr.exe. Alas, this was not as easy as alt-clicking and adding to the keywords. I thought it would
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It's not. So I have been hearing this a lot lately and wanted to get a link out to a good article which explains superfetch and what it is doing. I will have to admit the first time that I opened task manager in Vista and saw my system running at ~1.6GBs
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Just saw this on on10.net http://www.thirteen23.com/work.html It demonstrates what you can do with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I'm using the netflix demo from that site right now and it is pretty slick looking. I can't wait for more products
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Are you tired of alt-clicking the cmd icon and choosing "Run as administrator" 70 times a day? Well I am. Create a copy of cmd.exe in C:\Windows; rename it Elevatecmd.exe (or whatever) and set the Run As Administrator checkbox in Properties – Compatibility
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Using the Windows key (WinKey) + a number will bring up items on your taskbar. For instance I have IE, Product Studio, Outlook, and Wmplayer on my taskbar. If I hit WinKey+1 it will bring up IE, if I hit Winkey+4 it will bring up Windows media player.
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