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Windows 7 RC1 just came out. I am a TechNet subscriber, so I wanted to try it out. I have an old (2005) Dell desktop, 2.8 GHz, 2 GB ram, 160 GB drive box. 3.7 rating for Vista (because of the Graphics card mostly, would be 4.4 otherwise – not too bad, even for being [...]

If you ever wanted to remotely log memory usage (and CPU usage) of processes, you can use "tasklist" The key is, "tasklist /s"  and then the remote computer name. That along with filters you can query and log process info remotely with no more than a cmd window, or batch file in a scheduled task. [...]

Whew, long title, amazing results! Problem: You have a laptop or computer and you are working remotely for a company. You VPN in. Your computer is not on their Active Directory (AD) domain. You try to connect to SQL Server using SSMS or Analysis Services using Excel, but it doesn’t work because it is using [...]

Now, I am from Minnesota originally. I drove over that bridge 3 days before it collapsed. It sucks, its a bad thing for the state, for the people involved, and for everyone who passed or is injured. It is a very sad situation that no one should have to go through. What does the bridge [...]

Usually, in a company, there is a “development” department and a “IT” department, and usually the departments don’t really work together. Development is focused on delivering business value through coding applications for end users or B2B clients. IT is busy making sure the corporate network is humming along, and that other internal issues related to [...]

Right before I left for Portland, I was moving some files around on my USB hard drive, and I noticed something was wacked, like 100 GB was in use, but I couldn’t see any files! They had disappeared. Well today I finally got around to recovering the files. I tried 3-4 different products at first. [...]

Since I am getting my Internet today, this probably isn’t such a big deal, but for the past few days I have been “borrowing” the coffee shop’s wifi below my apt. Comes on in the morning, shuts off at night. But, there are like 20 wifi points in the list to connect to. I hate [...]

Sometimes, your path when you go to start->run, CMD will be something you don’t want. In active directory or on an NT domain, sometimes your default home path might be a network drive. This isn’t so good when you are offline or drop offline after being online. The CMD prompt is set to a place [...]

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If you reload your laptop, and you can’t figure out how to get your Bluetooth working. You need to hit fn+f5 (function key and f5) and the wireless manager comes up. You need to turn on the Bluetooth radio. Kind of hidden if you ask me :)