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After I reinstalled my computer a while back, I noticed that one characters (the @-sign) had a long delay before showing up after I had hit the key on the keyboard. And I noticed it wasn't every time I had turned on my computer it was "slow". Imagine how frustrating it is to write your email address in a normal pace on the keyboard, just to find it spelled firstname1977gma@il.com instead of firstname1977@gmail.com ? Hitting ' @ 'had 0.5 to 1 second delay before it showed up on my screen, while the characters after displayed instantly. The computer in question runs english Windows 10 x64 with an NVidia GTX1070 card from Asus, and using a norwegian/scandinavian keyboard (Logitech G710+, but model isn't the problem). Throubleshooting led me to narrow the problem down to my ASUS GPU TweakII v1.4.0.8 (older version probably have the same problems). When I started the program, which was set to auto-start, I was suddenly no able to type @ as fast and often as ...

Short summary: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench CTRL+SHIFT+J (Chrome) Paste into Console and hit Enter: Select Windows 10 (1511 TH2) or another version Select Language (English International = UK/GB) Download 32- or 64-bit For better instructions (or using another browser) see TechJourney article here: https://techjourney.net/windows-7-8-1-10-iso-official-direct-download-links-from-microsoft-tech-bench/

I found this blogpost about MDT 2013 and handling drivers.. I might have to check it out later in a lab environment. In MDT 2013 (Lite Touch), there are two types of drivers to worry about when deploying Windows. There are drivers for Windows PE 5.0 (the boot image) and there are drivers for the Windows Operating System that you deploy.   Driver management for the boot image is pretty straight , but driver management for the Operating Systems that you deploy is more complex. The real answer is it depends… To simplify I have broken down drivers for the Windows Operating system in to three core scenarios (see later in this post). But first, let’s start with the boot image drivers. Link: http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/325/MDT-2013-Lite-Touch-Driver-Management

This post was originally stored as a draft I never finished on how to update Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 Update 1 with the least amount of downloads (and time). Before I got around to publish it, Windows 10 was released. So now it will take you all the way from Windows 8 through Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. As many of you know, Microsoft has released Windows 10 as a free upgrade if you have a legal Windows 7 or 8.x installation, as long as you upgrade during the first year (so by 29th of July 2016). To upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 10 you have to first upgrade to Windows 8.1. So lets get cracking. I assume you have a clean new Windows 8 ("Home" or Pro) installed. Shortest path to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 First, activate Windows 8. Then configure Windows Update to "Let me decide which updates to download and install" Check for Windows 8 updates. Windows will want to update the Windows Update Component itself. Update it. Install the only update you n...

This might work in previous versions of Windows, but I've only tried it in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. I've got a MFP (multi-function printer) from Dell that I use to scan directly to a shared folder on my computer. For this I use a seperate user that has share/write permissions on a shared folder. I don't want to show this user in the Windows 10 list, so here is how to hide it: Start regedit and navigate here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Create a new sub-KEY under Winlogon named ' SpecialAccounts ' Create a new sub-KEY under SpecialAccounts named ' UserList ' In UserList, create a DWORD (32-bit) and give it the name of the user account. Leave the value at 0. Log out or Reboot Update: Verified to work in Windows 10.

Start these with  run  (from start menu) or run it from a command prompt. Admin Applet Command AD Domains and Trusts domain.msc Active Directory Management admgmt.msc AD Sites and Services dssite.msc AD Users and Computers dsa.msc ADSI Edit adsiedit.msc Authorization manager azman.msc Certification Authority Management certsrv.msc Certificate Templates certtmpl.msc Cluster Administrator cluadmin.exe Computer Management compmgmt.msc Component Services comexp.msc Configure Your Server cys.exe Device Manager devmgmt.msc DHCP Management dhcpmgmt.msc Disk Defragmenter dfrg.msc Disk Manager diskmgmt.msc Distributed File System dfsgui.msc DNS Management dnsmgmt.msc Event Viewer eventvwr.msc Indexing Service Management ciadv.msc IP Address Ma...

I just came over this page  that has good info about windows (vista/7/8/2008/2012/..) boot record problem solving.

Just found a nice forum post that keeps track of Intel's RST/RSTe drivers. I'm a bit sceptical since I can't find the latest version on Intel.com but thought I'd post the link here so I can go back later and have a look. It might be legit, it might not. Intel's RST/RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers @ Fernando’s Win-RAID Forum

This is yet another update to my list of SysAdmin inventory and accounting tools. I just did some searching for SysAdmin inventory tools and accounting and found the following I'd like to check our some day: SpiceWorks |  http://www.spiceworks.com/welcome/ OCS Inventory |  http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/ OPSI |  http://www.opsi.org/en FusionInventory |  http://www.fusioninventory.org/overview/ GLPI |  http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en ManageEngine |  http://www.manageengine.com/ Kaseya |  http://www.kaseya.com/ RackTables |  http://www.racktables.org iTop | http://www.combodo.com/spip.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=8 (new) Total Network Inventory | http://www.softinventive.com/products/total-network-inventory/ (new) XIA Configuration | http://www.centrel-solutions.com/XIAConfiguration/ (new) Network Inventory/Network Monitor | http://www.alchemy-lab.com/ (new)

As an update to my old post on a few SysAdmin tools, I just did some searching for SysAdmin inventory tools and accounting and found the following I'd like to check our some day: http://www.spiceworks.com/welcome/ http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/ http://www.opsi.org/en http://www.fusioninventory.org/overview/ http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en http://www.manageengine.com/ http://www.kaseya.com/ http://www.racktables.org

You may have noticed lately, at least this happenes in my Chrome v35 beta, that the entire URL has vanished and only the site FQDN is showing? Illustration:  FQDN, but no Complete URL. Annoying if you ask me    First I didn't find any solutions while googling, so I started to og through all the advanced and experimental settings ("flags") for Chrome and at the bottom I found the solution/configuration.   Open this URL in Your Chrome: chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox   This will give you this: Even the flag url is hidden, showing only "Chrome" Now, by setting this setting to 'Disabled' and restart Chrome everything is back to normal, or at least the way I prefer it - the COMPLETE URL is shown :)  Much better! Later I started googling for the key Words in the settings, like "origin-chip" and found some more information: http://chromespot.com/2014/01/17/you-can-now-customize-origin-chip-url-address-in...

RAM drive utility: ImDisk -  http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk Create for instance a 2GB RAM drive, mounting it as R: Browsers: Chrome - Add  --disk-cache-dir="R:\ChromeCache" --media-cache-dir= R:\ChromeCache to the Chrome icon's Target to change temp internet files Internet Explore - Internet Options, Browsing History, Settings, Move Folder - Select the root of R:\ SWAP - Disable swap on a normal disk and set a 1GB swap file on R: Verified on Windows 8, and should support all Windows NT based systems, including x64 :) Updated: A forum post on how to do this with scheduled tasks when booting. Also it is not recommended to use RAM for pagefile. Get more RAM instead, it's cheap these days. Updated 2: Added info about 'media-cache-dir' option for Chrome.

If you just found a gigantic c:\hiberfil.sys, it's your hibernation save file. If you don't use hibernation, turn it off and reclaim the space. On my new rig, I have a sweet 32GB of RAM, and my hibernation file at this point was 26GB. That's a lot of wasted space on an SSD drive when I don't use hibernation. To disable hibernation and remove this file in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, open a command prompt as administrator and type: powercfg -h off This should turn of hibernation and delete the big file automatically :) For Windows XP, just go to Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate tab .

Use BackInfo to set a servers wallpaper with hostname and other useful info. I used to use bginfo, but backinfo is simpler and that is what I want. Keep it simple! http://richardjgreen.net/2009/06/02/backinfo-over-bginfo-for-your-servers-wallpaper/

How to create a Windows 8 To Go USB stick: http://tweaks.com/windows/52279/how-to-create-a-windows-to-go-usb-drive/

Microsoft documentation about  Netsh AdvFirewall Firewall Commands . You'll also find the entire chapter  Netsh Commands for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security  which describes the Consec, Firewall, MainMode and Monitor commands in each section

Short but good article from VMWorld 2011 #GD21 - vSphere Guest OS Partition Alignment http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/08/guest-os-partition-alignment.html So we have Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008, RHEL/CentOS 6 that aligns automatically. W2K3 doesn't!

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