It’s the Data Redirection feature that was introduced with Windows Vista, in November 2006. Data Redirection – beginning with Windows Vista, standard users have restricted access to certain files, folders,…
At the end of “Our roaming profiles aren’t being saved …”, I wrote that For Windows Vista and later, the log information is stored in the Event Log. Under Applications…
As I finish up version 1 of InstallRunner, I went to set the UAC setting for “Require Administrator Privileges”. I did that, and got this error: Doing some research*, the…
Windows 7 x32 RC. This happened as soon as I started Microsoft Excel 2007. Given that I was running several VMware machines and memory was running a bit low, I…
Was asked to comment on a Vista upgrade proposal some time ago, as I’ve been around the block once or twice with SOE designs. Reading through the proposal document, from…
If you’re a business customer, thinking about making the upgrade from Windows NT4/2000/XP, I’d be waiting for Windows 7. By all means, plan and test with Windows Vista, and then…
Is really easy with Windows Easy Transfer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/easy-transfer.aspx) I'm a fan of the clean operating system install, rather than an operating system upgrade install. The bad thing about clean installs…
I have dozens of Virtual PC/VMware images, and can never remember the password for the things. A cleverer guy than me (Tony Cinanni) suggested this solution: Set a “Password Hint”. …
To fix, Short version: Under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System registry key, create 32-bit DWORD value named LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy, and set it to 1 . Long version See the How to Geek for the…
Open a command prompt (as administrator). Run "cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms IP_address_of_KMS:1688 && slmgr.vbs -ato"
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