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121) Add New Hardware Wizard in Windows 7: Date - Jun 22, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to launch the Add New Hardware Wizard in Windows 7.
122) Network traffic and the ADMX central store: Date - Jun 21, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; A tip concerning planning for network traffic when you implement a central store for ADMX template files.
123) Resynchronizing with a Time Server: Date - Jun 16, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to resynchronize a domain-joined Windows 7 computer with a time server.
124) Printing from Windows 7 to Windows XP in a workgroup: Date - Jun 15, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to print from a Windows 7 computer to a Windows XP printer in a workgroup.
125) Deleting zillions of tiny files from a volume: Date - Jun 15, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to delete zillions of tiny files from a volume without taking forever.
126) Creating a new file association in Windows 7: Date - Jun 14, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to create a new file association in Windows 7.
127) Change or Spoof your Network Adapter MAC Address: Date - Jun 09, 2011; Rating - 4.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; See how easy it is to change your network adapter's MAC address.
128) Discover a Hidden Wireless Network’s SSID (Network Name): Date - Jun 08, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Recover the Network Name from a Wi-Fi network that's not broadcasting its SSID.
129) Stop Auto Reboots after Windows Updates: Date - Jun 08, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Prevent Windows Update from rebooting your PC after automatically installing updates.
130) Impose Network Connection Restrictions: Date - Jun 06, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Control access to LAN, RAS and other network connection settings.
131) Disable Recent Shares in Network Places: Date - Jun 02, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Stop Windows from automatically adding shared folders to My Network Places
132) Troubleshooting static IP address page not displaying in Windows Deployment Wizard: Date - Jun 01, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; You want to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 and specify a static IP address for each target computer during deployment, but when you run the Windows Deployment Wizard on a target computer the wizard page that enables you to configure a static IP address is not displayed—why?
133) Specifying the boot image order in Windows Deployment Services: Date - Jun 01, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; You want to specify the order in which boot images are displayed when using Windows Deployment Services.
134) Troubleshooting task sequences not displaying: Date - May 31, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; You have a dozen task sequences created in MDT but when you run the Windows Deployment Wizard on a target computer only some of your task sequences are displayed—why?
135) How to duplicate a task sequence: Date - May 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Here are the steps you can perform to make a duplicate copy of a task sequence in MDT 2010.
136) Restoring a default file association on Windows 7: Date - May 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; You accidentally changed the default program associated with .cmd files to Notepad—how do you change it back?
137) Inject multiple packages into an offline Windows image: Date - May 24, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; You can use DISM to inject multiple packages into an offline Windows image.
138) Backing Up Your MDT Infrastructure: Date - May 19, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to back up your Microsoft Deployment Toolkit infrastructure.
139) Changing the Display Resolution in Windows PE during LTI: Date - May 18, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to change the display resolution in Windows PE during a Lite Touch installation using MDT 2010.
140) Replicating the MDT Database: Date - May 18, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; A tip concerning replicating the MDT database in a multi-site environment.
141) Staging Files to Virtual Machines: Date - May 17, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Virtual Platforms; Here's a tip on how you can quickly stage files from your Hyper-V R2 host computer to a virtual machine on that host.
142) Creating Windows image catalogs using Windows SIM: Date - May 12, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; A tip concerning creating Windows image catalogs using Windows SIM for different system architectures.
143) Suppressing the Network Location Wizard after LTI deployment: Date - May 11, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; This tip explains how you can prevent the Network Location Wizard from being displayed after an LTI deployment that joins the target computer to the domain.
144) Get the Classic Taskbar Back: Date - May 11, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Make the taskbar button labels visible again, so you can better distinguish between open programs and windows.
145) Disable Mapped Drive Reconnect Warning: Date - May 10, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Stop the annoying error message about unavailable mapped network drives or shares.
146) Change Network Bridge Settings: Date - May 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Change the Forwarding and/or STA settings of Network Bridges in Windows.
147) Load Balancing Among Multiple Network Adapters: Date - May 04, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Make Windows randomly distribute connections across muliple network adapters.
148) Respond to WINS Queries with Only One IP when Using Multiple Adapters: Date - May 04, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Make Windows respond to WINS queries with one IP instead of all IPs of the muliple adapters.
149) Skip the Open With Web Service Prompt: Date - May 03, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Administration; Select an application to open the file with quickier.
150) Enabling the Network Adapter Onboard Processor: Date - Apr 28, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; If your NIC supports it, turn it on in Windows.