Tag: Windows 7
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Windows Task Manager auto-started as an effective CPU monitor in your system tray
Overview: You can use Windows Task Manager as an effective CPU monitor left running in the system tray as a notification icon. It’s light on system resources, and safe to leave running full-time. Discreetly shows you how busy your system is, at-a-glance. Moving your mouse cursor over the icon provides a surprisingly handy pop-up view of…
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Migration and Deployment How To Migrate or Transfer Files And Settings To Windows 8 From Windows 7, Vista or XP (Part 4 of 19)
Overview: You can use Windows Easy Transfer wizard to migrate files from your old computer to your new computer. Using the Easy Transfer Wizard is super simple. You can use this tool to transfer you files and settings even if you are moving from an 32 bit (x86) environment to an 64 bit (x64). Basically…
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How to Expand a Boot To VHD Disk or other Virtual Hard Drive Using Windows Tool–Diskpart Windows 8, Windows 2012 and earlier OS
Last year wrote a blog post How To Expand and Extend To Increase Capacity On A Virtual Hard Disk The Easy and Fast Way–Solve the problem of “Out of Disk Space on Drive C” Forever Please refer to this blog post for a step-by-step video of the process. I ran out of space on my…
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Beta Start Planning Your Migration
The latest release from the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) team provides organizations with tools to accelerate their migration to the cloud. The beta is available on the connect site. Download the beta materials on Connect: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=219165 Accelerate your Windows Server 2012 migration with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.0 Beta. This latest version…
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How To Mount VHD Image From Windows 7 or Greater Step-By-Step Without Any Third Party Tools–The Easy Way
1) Click Start – Right-Click Computer – Select Manage {Authorize the elevation if prompted} 2) Expand Storage – Select Disk Management – Right-Click Disk Management – Select Attach VHD 3) Browse to select the VHD – Click OK
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IE9 Security Overwhelms the Field With VERY Impressive Stats
In a recent test, NSS subjected Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 15-19, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 7-13 to over 3 million test runs against over 84,000 URLs determined to be active and malicious out of a unique sample set of 227,841. · Out of 750,000 test cases per browser, NSS labs found…
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IE9 Security Overwhelms the Field With VERY Impressive Stats
In a recent test, NSS subjected Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 15-19, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 7-13 to over 3 million test runs against over 84,000 URLs determined to be active and malicious out of a unique sample set of 227,841. · Out of 750,000 test cases per browser, NSS labs found…
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Lab Guide – Windows 2012 RTM Install and Configure Windows and Hyper-V
The Word Version of this doc can be found at: /wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FY13H1-IT-Camp-Hands-On-Lab-Hyper-V-Quick-Guide.docx Microsoft IT Camp Hands-On Lab Windows Server 2012: Getting Started Lab version: 1.0.0 Last updated: 8/15/2012 Original Post Location of this Guide: Lab Guide – Windows 2012 RTM Install and Configure Windows and Hyper-V Contents Overview.. 2 Objectives 2 Prerequisites …
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Create Bootable USB Thumb Drive Key with Windows 8 Media to Install Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 or Other Operating System–Step by Step
These procedures were written using Windows 8 Release Preview but will work with prior versions of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 and Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. There is a video walkthrough of this process at the bottom of this post. If you do not have the…
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How To Modify Timeout, Change Default or Delete Boot Menu Item From Windows 7 or Later Using MSConfig To Modify Boot Configuration Data
Change Default Selection and Timeout Using MSConfig 1) Start | type msconfig | Press <ENTER> 2) Click on the Boot tab 3) Click to select the option you want to set as default 4) Click the Set as Default Button 5) Turn on the checkbox “Make all boot settings permanent” 6) Click OK – on…
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Remotely Manage Windows Server 2008 R2 and More with Remote Server Management and Administration Tools for Windows 7
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 with SP1 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server® 2008 R2, Windows Server® 2008, or Windows Server® 2003, from a remote computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows 7 with SP1. You can download from the…
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Part 2 – Build a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cloud Foundation Test Lab in Less Than an Hour–BIOS Settings
Step 1: Part 1 – Build a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cloud Foundation Test Lab in Less Than an Hour (includes sysprep images) You should have your server up and running. Step 2: Install your network drivers. If you need help with the network driver see: Network Trashed on My Lenovo W510 And The…
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How To Turn On or Off AutoPlay Features in Windows 7–Change What Programs and Media Are Used In AutoPlay
The Auto-Play features are changed in Control Panel
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How To Create Enable Permissions and Run a Multi-Line PowerShell Script
This topic explains how to enable scripting in Windows PowerShell, which script extensions are used in Windows PowerShell, how to enable running PowerShell scripts, how to create a script and how run a script.
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Microsoft Virtual Academy–Advance Your Career With Free Online Training Portal
Are you interested in more free Microsoft training? If so, pay attention…
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Check Version of Assembly or DLL on Your System
To look at what is on the machine click Start– and type in the path to the assembly folder which is C:windowsassembly and press ENTER.
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IT Camp–Systems Management Coming to Waltham MA Oct 28th 2011–Must Attend Event
IT Camp – Systems Management – Free Training Friday, October 28, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)
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TechNet Radio: IT Time–Tips and Tricks for setting up Windows Deployment Services (Part 1 of 3) with Blain, John and Rhonda
Another Great TechNet Radio Broadcast from Blain Barton. Check it out!!! TechNet Radio: IT Time–Tips and Tricks for setting up Windows Deployment Services (Part 1 of 3) with Blain, John and Rhonda Its IT Time and in Part 1 of this 3 part series, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome back Setup and Deployment MVP,…
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Boot2VHD-Part 3-Load OS on VHD With OS Already Installed on Metal
Native Boot To VHD (Boot2VHD) – Everything You Need To Know Part 3… In this multi-part video series we will dive deep into a the new virtualization feature built into Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. It is called Native Boot To VHD (AKA: Boot2VHD). This is the one virtualization platform that allows virtualization…