Having empty vmdk files allows you to - create virtual machines even with vmware player - create additional disks and add them to existing vmware installations

The easiest way to create custom vmdk 'disks' is by using a free Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

First of all, download psexec from the Microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx     From and elevated/admin command prompt (cmd.exe, "run as administrator"), run psexec –s cmd.exe

C:\>whoami peter

C:\>psexec -s cmd.exe

PsExec v1.83 - Execute processes remotely Read more

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 Read more

By default, Vista has the Windows Firewall is turned on. This means that all incoming connections are being blocked. This may be a good thing in certain cases, but not restrictive enough in most cases, because all outgoing traffic Read more

Windows XP Method 1

1. In Folder Options, on the Offline Files tab, press CTRL+SHIFT, and then click Delete Files. The following message appears:

The Offline Files cache on the local computer will be re-initialized. Any changes that have Read more

After migrating this blog from my old 2008 RC1 server to a new 2008 RTM server, I noticed that my Sharepoint alerts stopped working. I was still getting an email message when I created a new alert definition, but Read more

In this post, I will explain one of the techniques to monitor the age of a given file, using vbscript and Operations Manager 2007

This is what the script looks like :

Option Explicit ' ' Script that returns Read more

I have decided to make some of my old (and new) tools and scripts available to the community. 

The first (6 years old but still useful) tool is my SMTP Open Relay Tester.  This small standalone Windows console application Read more