Installing Windows 7 from a USB key
Microsoft has announced that it will support Windows 7 installations from a USB key. This will allow people to install Windows 7 on systems that do not have a DVD drive (yes, Windows 7 will also run quite fast on your old notebook that only has 1Gb of RAM and does not have a DVD […]
Fixing ‘Compatibility Mode grayed out’ or ‘Unable to enable Run as administrator’ on Vista / Windows 2008 Server
Ever wondered how you can set Compatibility Mode on executables under Vista / Windows 2008 server when the settings (or even the entire tab) has been disabled ? Or make the application “run as administrator” permanently, and you’ve found that this setting is disabled ? All of the settings in the Compatibility tab can be […]
Windows XP L2TP over IPSec dialup client VPN to a Juniper ScreenOS firewall, using Certificates
Before looking at the various configuration steps, we’ll have to take the following assumptions into account : – We don’t want to use the Netscreen Remote client, but we want to use the Windows XP built-in dialup VPN technology that allows us to build PPTP or L2TP/IPSec connections. Juniper screenOS does not support PPTP (which […]
IP Autotuning in Vista
At any given time, the amount that TCP can send is governed by three factors: the congestion window, the receive window and the number of bytes available to send. Without using TCP window scaling (which is disabled by default in previous versions of Windows), the maximum receive window a receiver can advertise is 64K bytes. […]
System/Disk Backup in Vista using command line script
Microsoft has implemented a really neat feature in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, allowing you to perform a full disk or even system backup, while the system is running. This new backup tool used Block Level backup and uses Volume Shadow Copy to backup open files (however, it is advised to close your applications while […]
Run explorer window with administrator rights in Vista
Easy, don’t you think ? Right click explorer(.exe), choose “run as administrator” and you’re set ? Nope – doesn’t work ! And this is why The UAC (User Account Control) feature in Vista provides a user with two tokens when he logs on… a token that is bound to his real user rights, […]