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21 February 2007
Windows Desktop Search - Index network shares for faster searching
Can't wait to get home tonight..... just saw a pointer to this download on microsoft.com which is an addin for Windows Desktop Search, supported on Windows Vista which provides indexing capability for network shares. Given I've got hundreds of GB of data Read More...
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20 February 2006
Shadow Copy Client Download
I was on the train a few days ago and ended up chatting to some guy (apologies, I'm terrible with names) about stuff which inevitably deviated into technology - of course we got to the bit when I mentioned I worked for Microsoft. His relatively small Read More...
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13 February 2006
Clear Read-Only Attributes in bulk
There's often those situations where you need to clear read-only attributes from a directory tree in bulk. In the past, having been a command line junkie and developer, I've used the attrib command with the /S parameter to include sub-directories as I've Read More...
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07 February 2006
Applying Least Privilege to User Accounts in Windows XP
You've already probably heard by now the many efforts and changes which will be coming into place with the release of Windows Vista later this year regarding how "least privilege" (I use quotes as the actual term has changed a few times and I'm not sure Read More...
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04 January 2006
Cleartype Tuner
One of these always useful links to have - I just changed to a new laptop a couple of weeks before Christmas, and the default LCD display was somewhat fuzzy even with ClearType turned on. If you didn't know, you can use an online tool to optimise the Read More...
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09 November 2005
Media Center (Centre) - new downloads available
Just noticed that TweakMCE 2.0 is now available for download . My main Media Centre machine was playing up (OK, fair cop, I'd been playing with it, installing Beta software left right and centre) to the extent that I was forced to rebuild it last weekend. Read More...
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07 September 2005
Business Desktop Deployment
I was following up a couple of queries with people about desktop deployment last week, and noticed that the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment was updated a few weeks ago to version 2.5. Rather than re-gurgitate info that other people Read More...
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29 July 2005
WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2)
I just noticed that my there's a firmware update available for one of my wireless routers I use at home to support WPA2. I haven't delved into WPA2 so far, but may now give it a chance if I'm feeling brave. I'm always nervous when it comes to applying Read More...
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21 July 2005
Malicious Software Removal Tool
As much as a bookmark blog as anything else so I know where to find it. You may have seen the malicious software removal tool come down through WindowsUpdate/MicrosoftUpdate. What I didn't know was that a version with the latest updates is released on Read More...
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01 July 2005
What does each Windows Service do?
Another frequently asked question by many customers. A good answer can be found in the "Threats and Countermeasures: Security Settings in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP" document which can be downloaded here . A little out of date (being based on Read More...
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21 June 2005
Don't be flamed - use the Image Resizer Powertoy
Continuing the theme of digital imagery and photography , I happened to notice an email go through on an internal discussion group today which had something like 4MB of attachments in the form of photos. As you can probably imaging, the sender was somewhat Read More...
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20 June 2005
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
As I blogged about a little while ago, the Microsoft RAW Image Thumbmailer and Viewer application was released last week. You can download it from here . It doesn't install directly under Windows 2003 server as on my laptop, but it will soon :-) Officially, Read More...
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02 June 2005
New Windows Support for RAW file format - RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
If you're a fan of Digital Photography, read on. There was an interesting press release yesterday (which I can't unfortunately find on the Presspass site) about how Microsoft is going to be natively supporting the commonly used RAW file format in Digital Read More...
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12 May 2005
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1
I've had a couple of people ask me about this over the past week, so rather than answer individually, here's the location for the latest version of the Group Policy Settings Reference spreadsheet. This spreadsheet lists Group Policy settings described Read More...
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28 April 2005
Remote Desktop Assistant 1.0
Sometimes the most blindingly obvious and simple utility become a weapon of choice in your toolbox arsenal. Here's one such example I stumbled across a few days ago and am now wondering how I ever coped before. Over on longhornblogs.com, Robert (who I Read More...
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