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DaleMy Windows 7 logon time could be measured in minutes. So I tidied up my Roaming Profile. 4GB of space savings later, I was removing the last of the files…
Performance wise, it improved Windows 7 logon time by 15%
It, being a Microsoft enterprise hotfix rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. And the 15% logon time improvement was just when I applied it to…
How to recover a “WiFi” password from a Windows PC.
Or, “I’ve forgotten my Wireless password and don’t know how to retrieve it from my Windows 7 PC.” I didn’t either, until today. The background was that a customer was…
TrueCrypt and “Can’t come out of hibernation”
… with an 0xc0000242 error. No, I don’t know what the underlying problem is. Often, if I just reboot, Windows/TrueCrypt allows the resume from Hibernation to work. My guess is…
Slow startup and/or logon times with Windows 7?
Our users were complaining of slow startup and logon performance with our Windows 7 fleet. We got Microsoft in. One of the things they recommended was deploying two hotfixes: An…
Busted laptop–one of those Family/Friends/Neighbour deals.
The friend reported that their Windows 7 Dell laptop was bluescreen-ing. Now this was going to be a post about how simple it was to fix, but as it turns…
MaxPatchCacheSize and Windows 7
So I was building a Windows 7 virtual machine, so I could play “Gardens of Time” as GoT doesn’t work on my Windows 2008 R2 box …, and I went…
The Case of the Windows FTP.EXE not working from the corporate network.
The heading alone should tell you the answer, particularly if I add ACTIVE FTP to it. You see, most Corporate IT people consider ACTIVE FTP a bad thing, and block…
Removing old update backup files from Windows XP and Windows 7
Before I release a new Windows XP standard operating system image, I use a utility called “Windows XP Update Remover”. I do this to reduce the number of “$NTuninstall” directories…
Office 2007 & 2010 reporting "File in use" on Novell Netware file shares.
We had a user complain that on Windows 7 and Office 2007, when they try to open a Office document on a Novell Netware fileshare, they were getting a "File…