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Miscellaneous Tips

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How to wipe a hard drive using Diskpart and Format: Date - Jan 25, 2012; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Explains how to wipe a hard drive using the Diskpart and Format commands.
Determining the drive letter of a removable drive from the command line: Date - Jan 24, 2012; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to use WMIC to determine the drive letter of a removable drive from the command line.
Creating a System Repair Disc for Windows Vista or 7: Date - Jan 17, 2012; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Booting directly to the System Recovery Options to fix boot and startup issues.
Determining whether a folder is shared in Windows 7: Date - Dec 21, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here's a tip on how to determine whether a folder is shared in Windows 7.
Search the Internet from the Windows 7 Start Menu: Date - Sep 06, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Windows Vista let you search the web from the Start Menu—get this back in Windows 7.
Disabling activation pop-ups in demo environments: Date - Aug 24, 2011; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to disable Windows activation pop-ups in demo environments.
Using Process Explorer to Examine Dialog Boxes: Date - Jul 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; When troubleshooting program errors dialog boxes can often be unclear or confusing. This tip will show you a quick method to getting more out of those dialog boxes than meets the eye.
Configuring Indexing for Performance: Date - Jun 23, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Chris Sanders; Indexing has improved greatly in Windows operating systems over the course of the last several years, but you can still benefit from disabling it in certain areas. This tip discusses how to configure indexing for greater performance.
Changing the Location of the Indexing Database: Date - Jun 22, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; This tip demonstrates how to change the location of the Windows indexing database and why you might want to do so.
Resynchronizing with a Time Server: Date - Jun 16, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to resynchronize a domain-joined Windows 7 computer with a time server.
Creating a new file association in Windows 7: Date - Jun 14, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to create a new file association in Windows 7.
Troubleshooting static IP address page not displaying in Windows Deployment Wizard: Date - Jun 01, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; 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?
Troubleshooting task sequences not displaying: Date - May 31, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; 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?
How to duplicate a task sequence: Date - May 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here are the steps you can perform to make a duplicate copy of a task sequence in MDT 2010.
Inject multiple packages into an offline Windows image: Date - May 24, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; You can use DISM to inject multiple packages into an offline Windows image.
Backing Up Your MDT Infrastructure: Date - May 19, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to back up your Microsoft Deployment Toolkit infrastructure.
Changing the Display Resolution in Windows PE during LTI: Date - May 18, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to change the display resolution in Windows PE during a Lite Touch installation using MDT 2010.
Replicating the MDT Database: Date - May 18, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; A tip concerning replicating the MDT database in a multi-site environment.
Creating Windows image catalogs using Windows SIM: Date - May 12, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; A tip concerning creating Windows image catalogs using Windows SIM for different system architectures.
Suppressing the Network Location Wizard after LTI deployment: Date - May 11, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; 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.
How to identify a failing laptop battery using Powercfg: Date - Apr 20, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here's a tip how you can use the Powercfg in Windows 7 command to identify a laptop battery that might be failing.
Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive for Windows 7 Installation: Date - Apr 06, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Install Windows 7 from a Netbook or other PC without a DVD drive.
Analyzing Wait Chains to Determine the Cause of Software Hangs: Date - Mar 30, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; 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.
Opening Command Prompts at Your Current Location in Windows 7: Date - Mar 30, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Chris Sanders; 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.
Troubleshooting missing task sequences in Windows Deployment Wizard: Date - Mar 24, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to resolve the issue of no task sequences being displayed when the Windows Deployment Wizard runs on the target computer.
Troubleshooting the Sysprep and Capture task sequence: Date - Mar 23, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to resolve an issue involving the use of the Sysprep and Capture task sequence in MDT 2010.
Selecting from multiple MDT deployment shares: Date - Mar 23, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; This tip describes how you can select which MDT deployment share to use when several are available on the network.
Troubleshooting Slow Shutdowns with Xbootmgr: Date - Mar 22, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Chris Sanders; 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.
Identifying reference computers by MAC address in MDT 2010: Date - Mar 17, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; This tip describes how you can identify your reference computers by their MAC addresses so that you can capture an image of these computers.
Pre-specifying the computer name for Windows PE: Date - Mar 09, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here's a tip on how you can pre-specify the computer name for Windows PE.
Adding feature packs to Windows PE: Date - Mar 09, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; When adding feature packs to a Windows PE image, make sure you also add the corresponding language packs.
Copying and customizing task sequences in MDT 2010: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; This tip describes how you can copy and then customize a task sequence in MDT 2010.
Determining the UUID of a computer: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to use WMI to determine the UUID of a computer.
Updating a Windows Image: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here's one method you can use for updating a Windows image that you want to deploy using MDT 2010.
Troubleshooting Sleep Mode Device Wake-Up with Powercfg: Date - Jan 20, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Leveraging sleep mode can have a very positive impact on both your network and your budget. However, there are some devices that may cause you grief when your computer wakes up. We can use the update powercfg utility to troubleshoot this.
Deleting Recently Opened PST Files: Date - Jan 18, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; If you’ve ever tried to delete or rename a PST file directly after opening it in Outlook 2007 then you were probably shocked to find that you couldn’t do so for at least thirty minutes. This can become bothersome in certain situations, but we can fix that with a simply registry edit.
Windows 7 Window Management: Date - Nov 11, 2010; Rating - 3.3; Author - Chris Sanders; We tend to get lost in the administrative and security features of a new operating system, but sometimes the simplest changes result in the biggest productivity gain. The new window management features in Windows 7 do just that.