Size Requirements for the Volume Shadow Copy Service
The Volume Shadow Copy service is a great way to provide an added means of backing up your data. Here we will look at some of the space requirements you will need to plan for when implementing it.
Category Archives: Windows
Enhance Performance by Moving the Pagefile
Boost performance by moving your pagefile to a separate volume. A significant performance gain can usually be achieved on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 by moving the pagefile to a different partition or volume. By default, Windows creates a pagefile of size 1.5 x RAM and locates it on the root of the boot partition (usually C:… Read More »
Enabling Remote Desktop on a Remote Machine
What if you want to use Remote Desktop on a server that’s already off-site? Here’s how to do it.
How to customize the Send To menu in Vista
A useful trick in Vista is being able to right-click on an item, select Send To, and then send the item to your Documents folder, a mail recipient, a USB drive, and so on.
Locking down USB devices in Vista for greater security
If you want to prevent users from connecting USB key drives to their machines and copying sensitive company information onto them, you can always pour glue in the USB ports on these machines, but that’s a drastic measure.
How to customize the Default Users profile
Want to customize the desktop experience for any user who logs onto a computer? Customize the Default User user profile on the machine, which is found in C:\Documents and Settings\Default User.
How to roll back device drivers
Rolling back a device driver may be necessary if you”ve just installed updated the driver for some device on your system and it”s behaving erratically as a result.
Disable Roaming Profiles
If you”re troubleshooting a desktop system on a network where roaming profiles are being used, you may want to temporarily disable roaming profiles on the machine and use a locally cached profile instead. That way when you reboot the machine or log off and on, you won”t end up having the roaming profile overwrite any diagnostic changes you”ve… Read More »
How to avoid problems arising from APIPA
Windows XP computers can be assigned IP addresses two ways: manually using static addresses or automatically using DHCP.
How to disable Vista’s Setup log
Windows Vista includes a Setup log which can be viewed and analyzed using Event Viewer. By default new Setup events generated are added to this log, but you can disable this functionality using local Group Policy as follows: