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Identity and Access in Windows Server 2008
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" Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:29 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

What variations of sleep does my computer support? And why did it wake up?
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:37 AM by Brad Rutkowski | 5 Comments

NLTEST returning RPC_S_UNKNOWN_IF
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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:33 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

Vista Wallpapers...
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 Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:19 AM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

Making your app prompt for elevation in Windows Vista
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. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:27 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

Searching for Vista drivers?
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:29 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

Book of Vista (The definitive guide to Vista)
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:18 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

How to filter the eventlog in Vista manually (XML)
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 Read More...

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 11:37 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 1 Comments

Why is Vista such a memory hog?
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:08 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

Cool Vista Demos from thirteen23.com
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 Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:18 AM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

How do I create an elevated cmd shortcut in Vista/LH?
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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:50 PM by Brad Rutkowski | 0 Comments

Cool Windows Vista Feature
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. Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 5:51 AM by Brad Rutkowski | 2 Comments

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