Andrew Herron

Boot from a VHD in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

by Andrew Herron 30 June 2010 Desktop

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 allow you to create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) that you can make bootable. This is particularly useful when needing to create a dual boot system and does not require having to partition your Hard Disk Drives (HDD). First of all you will need to create the VHD. The [...]

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Tagged as: Desktop, Server 2008 R2, VHD, Windows 7

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Better Compression for a CD\DVD image files

by Andrew Herron 7 May 2010 Applications

This a nice lossless way to compress a CD\DVD image file in order to get a better compression ratio. First you need a application called ECM. You can get that here: http://www.neillcorlett.com/ecm/ Once you have downloaded and extracted the application to a folder on your machine you will need to do the following to compress [...]

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Old Computer Accounts in Active Directory

by Andrew Herron 20 April 2010 Active Directory

I needed to find out which computer accounts where stale in a Active Directory Environment. I first tried to use Powergui to get the information that I required by exporting all the computer objects to a csv. When I opened the csv that I exported I could not find the attribute that I was looking [...]

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Offline Folders not Working in Windows 7 and SBS

by Andrew Herron 2 February 2010 Desktop

I had the above issue yesterday. The folders had been redirected to the server, however the user was unable to create new files and folder, nor could the user edit existing files when offline. I discovered that a Group Policy Object had been created and linked to the Domain. The purpose of the Group Policy [...]

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Tagged as: SBS, Windows 7

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Canon EOS Application Issue

by Andrew Herron 1 February 2010 Desktop

I had an interesting problem today regarding a Canon EOS camera and Windows 7 Ultimate x64. The problem was that the Canon EOS application would not download images from the camera to a redirected My Documents folder. To fix this particular issue I mapped a drive to \\servername\sharename. I then set the Canon EOS application [...]

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Tagged as: Accessories, download, Windows 7

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DHCP stops without an error event

by Andrew Herron 31 January 2010 Server

Now this one took a bit of head scratching to figure out. DHCP had stopped on a Domain Controller and there was no error in the Event Logs. The only entries in the Event Log are the ones below: The problem with this is that because there is no error log there was no way [...]

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Tagged as: DHCP, Server 2003

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More Windows “God Mode” codes

by Andrew Herron 22 January 2010 Desktop

Here is a list of other folder GUID’s that can be used to create shortcuts to various different tools and settings: {00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33} – Default Location {0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428} – Biometric Devices {025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D} – Power Options {05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9} – Notification Area Icons {1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70} – Credential Manager {15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4} – Install from Network {17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966} – Default Programs {1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87} – Manage Wireless [...]

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Windows 7 "God Mode"

by Andrew Herron 21 January 2010 Desktop

Windows 7 "God Mode" is nothing more than a list of all the tasks that can be used in the Control Panel. You can create it by creating a new folder and naming it "anything.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" This will then create a shortcut, of your naming, to the All Tasks folders. For another nifty trick in Windows [...]

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