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151) Display Error Statistics on the Network Connection Status Window: Date - Apr 27, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Show errors in addition to the amount of sent/recieved packets.
152) Open a Command Prompt in Any Folder of Windows 7: Date - Apr 27, 2011; Rating - 4.8; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Here's shortcut to quickly navigate to a path in the Command Prompt.
153) Hide a Server from the Microsoft Computer Browser Service: Date - Apr 26, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Stop sending announcements to the domain.
154) Configuring a static IP address using MDT 2010: Date - Apr 21, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; A tip on how you can configure a static IP address using MDT 2010.
155) How to identify a failing laptop battery using Powercfg: Date - Apr 20, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Here's a tip how you can use the Powercfg in Windows 7 command to identify a laptop battery that might be failing.
156) Adding desktop icons during deployment: Date - Apr 20, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; How to add desktop icons such as Computer or Network to a target computer's desktop during deployment.
157) The Windows Virtual PC alternative to upgrading: Date - Apr 19, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; If you have a Windows Vista computer and are considering doing an in-place upgrade to Windows 7, you might want to follow the approach described in this tip instead.
158) Moving the Offline Folders Cache: Date - Apr 14, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How do you move the CSC folder to another location on a Windows 7 computer?
159) Group Policy confusion: logon hours: Date - Apr 14, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; What's the difference between these two Group Policy policy settings?
160) New Command-Line Parameters for Defrag.exe in Windows 7: Date - Apr 14, 2011; Rating - 4.3; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Admin; See the exisitng, new, and hidden switches for the Defragmenter.
161) Office XML-Based Files Downloading as ZIP: Date - Apr 07, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - TroubleShooting; Convert a DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX file back to the correct format.
162) Remove Blank Entries from the MSConfig Startup Tab in Windows XP: Date - Apr 06, 2011; Rating - 1.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Disable - Hide; Clean up the startup entries by deleting blank items.
163) Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive for Windows 7 Installation: Date - Apr 06, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Install Windows 7 from a Netbook or other PC without a DVD drive.
164) Check if a CPU Supports Virtualization: Date - Apr 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Utilities; Check if your PC supports AMD-V, Intel VT or VIA VT.
165) Create Custom Jump Lists in Windows 7: Date - Apr 04, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; With a third-party tool you can edit and/or create these new shortcuts.
166) Analyzing Wait Chains to Determine the Cause of Software Hangs: Date - Mar 30, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Nothing is more frustrating than a program that continues to hang during operation. The Windows 7 version of resource monitor provides a new feature which helps determine the cause of software crashes.
167) Opening Command Prompts at Your Current Location in Windows 7: Date - Mar 30, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; If you are a command prompt junkie then one of the most useful features you can have is the ability to open a command prompt window from your current working directory in Windows Explorer. This required a separate download in previous versions of Windows, but with a special trick it’s a bit easier in Windows 7.
168) Stress Testing File Server Capacity: Date - Mar 29, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Testing file servers for a supported workload has always been something that’s challenging outside of an actually deploying a server and seeing how it performs. Microsoft is currently testing a product which should allow for this to be done with great ease.
169) Troubleshooting missing task sequences in Windows Deployment Wizard: Date - Mar 24, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to resolve the issue of no task sequences being displayed when the Windows Deployment Wizard runs on the target computer.
170) Troubleshooting the Sysprep and Capture task sequence: Date - Mar 23, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to resolve an issue involving the use of the Sysprep and Capture task sequence in MDT 2010.
171) Selecting from multiple MDT deployment shares: Date - Mar 23, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; This tip describes how you can select which MDT deployment share to use when several are available on the network.
172) Troubleshooting Slow Shutdowns with Xbootmgr: Date - Mar 22, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; There’s nothing more frustrating than waiting on your laptop to shut down so you can head out the door. The Xbootmgr utility from Microsoft can help troubleshoot lethargic shutdowns.
173) Identifying reference computers by MAC address in MDT 2010: Date - Mar 17, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; This tip describes how you can identify your reference computers by their MAC addresses so that you can capture an image of these computers.
174) Prevent users from changing their time zone setting: Date - Mar 16, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; How you can prevent users from changing the time zone setting on their computers.
175) Prevent use of writable CD/DVD drives: Date - Mar 16, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How you can prevent users from writing to writable CD/DVD on their computers.
176) Using Vista answer files with Windows 7: Date - Mar 15, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Can you use answer files created for Windows Vista to perform unattended installs of Windows 7?
177) Troubleshooting an empty task sequence page in Lite Touch wizard: Date - Mar 10, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; You are trying to deploy Windows using MDT 2010 using LTI but the task sequence page of the wizard is blank. Why?
178) Pre-specifying the computer name for Windows PE: Date - Mar 09, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Here's a tip on how you can pre-specify the computer name for Windows PE.
179) Adding feature packs to Windows PE: Date - Mar 09, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; When adding feature packs to a Windows PE image, make sure you also add the corresponding language packs.
180) AutoRestartShell And Windows: Date - Mar 08, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Registry Hacks; This article explains how you can use a registry entry to enable auto restart of Explorer.exe shell if it stops unexpectedly.