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Comment on Unidentified Network issue with VMWare’s virtual NICs in Vista by Tomas

Tomas — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:36:54 +0000

same to me, Windows 7 64bit host. Also got it out of unidentified networks, but ports are still blocked (80,443,telnet…).

Comment on How to add the Exchange Tabs and Tasks to the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in without loading Exchange System Manager by moracca

moracca — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:36:56 +0000

thanks for this… its really annoying to have to find the exchange cd and install the whole system management tools in order to manage email addresses from another server.

Comment on Unidentified Network issue with VMWare’s virtual NICs in Vista by Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:17 +0000

On my Windows 7 64bit host, these steps took the VMware nic out of the public unidentified network, but it did not make it a home or office identified network. Any suggestions?

Comment on Reset Health doesn’t work in SCOM Health Explorer? by Sam John

Sam John — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:58:21 +0000

Should this procedure be done while in maintenance mode?

Comment on Dark Aurora Wallpaper by Matt_Wade

Matt_Wade — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:45:50 +0000

Added a high-res link for 1500×1125. Enjoy.

Comment on Dark Aurora Wallpaper by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:57:42 +0000

Wonderful Background, but it's only 640×480… I'd use it if it was bigger, maybe 1024×768 or bigger.

Comment on How to clear the AutoComplete list in Outlook 2010 by Matt_Wade

Matt_Wade — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:58:20 +0000

Yes, this still applies if your are running Outlook 2010 on Exchange 2007.

Comment on How to clear the AutoComplete list in Outlook 2010 by Judie Rahman

Judie Rahman — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:09:42 +0000

Matt – Great article! Will this work if we are running Exchange server 2007? Or do we have to wait for 2010?

Comment on How to clear the AutoComplete list in Outlook 2010 by Matt_Wade

Matt_Wade — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:00:59 +0000

Apologize for the late reply. No you will still not be able to manage the Autocomplete list centrally. That would be a nice option for future versions of Exchange.

Comment on WinSxS, Disk Space and Windows 7 by FBKK

FBKK — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:50:37 +0000

Actually some of the files in the WinSxs Files are actually hardlinks to files in other locations, which means that if you add up the size of the WinSxS folder to other folders on C: and free space you will exceed your partition size, by my calculations on my C: drive I have some 2,5 GB of extra space on C, which means that at least 2,5 GB of reported disk space is made up of hardlinks to other files. That being said, my winsxs folder is about 7 GB in size, which means that at it contains about 4,5 GB of files which are not hardlinks, and this is not surprising if you know how the winsxs folder works, basically it stores every version of every shared dll on a system, and supposedly it deletes a version when the system is sure that there are no more applications using a particular version, however it is very difficult to determine when a shared dll is no longer in use, so more often than not, just to be sure, windows keep every version of every patch, update and fix dll in the winsxs folder, and on x64 system usually 2 version of every dll, the x86 and the x64 version, side by side as the folder name suggests. What you end up with is a bloated beast.
Recently I find myself using Ubuntu more and more, and it's surprisingly nice, and I find myself able to do everything I would do in windows, except hardcore gaming and windows programming of course, and while OpenOffice is definitely not on par with MSOffice I think it would be usable in most office settings. So we still have 4 more years of WinXP support, and to me it remains to be seen if Linux will even be considered as an alternative, but it definitely should be.