Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report
Cool little utility built into Windows 7 to survey your computers energy efficiency. Run a command prompt as Administrator and run the following:
powercfg –energy
This will run for a minute and then create a report for your system. The filename and path will be shown when it finishes running. Note that you may need to copy [...]
Location Aware Printing in Win7
A cool feature in Windows 7 is location aware printing to allow your laptop to automatically choose the default printer based on the network your connected to. The instructions below are from the Microsoft Springboard Series
To setup location aware printing:
Click the Start menu and then click Devices & Printers
Under Printers and Faxes, click a printer [...]
Windows Server 2008 Easy Print
:: UPDATE
After the 120 days the server stopped responding to Remote Desktop. I got in touch with the support rep and it looks like even after repeatedly questioning the fact that I’m not acutally running a Terminal Server and being told not to worry, he mis-understood.
I removed the Terminal Services role, rebooted and it looks [...]
Windows 7 Driver Recovery
I had the first issue I’ve seen so far with Windows 7 today, actually it was the new beta NVidea driver that I’m running. While in the middle of working my screen blanked out..just as I started muttering the slew of curses it came back online and the little balloon popped up saying there was [...]
Windows 7 RC
I decided to try out the new Windows 7 RC on a Asus EeePC 1000HE netbook. After setting up a USB flash drive to boot from, the install went smooth. The Ethernet driver is actually included in the RC where it wasn’t in the Beta…still have one driver missing but haven’t looked to see what [...]
Developer Tools in IE8
Found a cool new feature in IE 8, the developer tools make a nice improvement. Press F12 to bring up the developer tools to work with HTML, CSS and scripts on the site to make real-time changes (view only.) Definitely a nice plus.
Windows Server 2008 Foundation
Talk about a stealth launch from Microsoft, the release of Windows Server 2008 Foundation was practically missed by most of the MS Partners in this area. While going through a Microsoft presentation from J.J. at the Palm Beach IT Association meeting the only person who had heard about it thought it was an April Fools [...]
Portable Ubuntu
There was a post on Lifehacker the other day about Portable Ubuntu for Windows which lets you run Ubuntu within Windows! So you can still be in Windows and have access to apps within Ubuntu….without even needing to install. It runs self-contained and can even be run from a thumb drive.
SecondRun.tv for Windows Media Center
Just came across this extension for Windows Media Center called SecondRun.tv that looks really cool. We’ve been considering cutting out the cable service in the house and just going with the over the air tv and online shows and this makes that change one step closer. It allows you to select and watch content from [...]
Custom Logon Screen in Windows 7
Looks like Windows 7 is going to make it a little easier to modify the logon screen. I’ve always used one of the numerous tools out there to do this in the past but after reading a post on WithinWindows it looks like it’s going to be an easy change to do in Windows 7.