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Filtering policies in new Group Policy management tool

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When you install Vista Service Pack 1 the old GPMC.MSC control panel is removed. The reason for this is that there is a new and improved Group Policy management tool released in the Remote Server Admi... (more)

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In group policies, vista | 03/05/2008 23:53:10

Warning for using Vista Offline files with NAS devices

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This is just a warning to anyone thinking about using Offline files in Windows Vista together with a NAS device. The Offline files feature is activated by default on all folders which you redirect whe... (more)

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In offline files, vista | 03/05/2008 22:40:19

Turn off UAC in a domain using Group Policies

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Some people for whatever reason want to turn off UAC for all or certain computers in a domain using Group Policies. This is done by setting the Computers Configuration > Windows Settings > Local... (more)

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In vista | 29/03/2008 23:10:50

Vista detects that the system is working slow

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The other day when I was running a couple of virtual machines in Virtual PC in my computer I got a warning looking like the picture below. Vista detected that the machine was working very hard and off... (more)

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In vista | 29/03/2008 23:09:34

No image catalog for 32-bit images when running Vista x64 SP1

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I have had severe problems with System Image Manager crashing when trying to create the Catalog file for a Vista Enterprise SP1 image. The other day an updated version of the Windows Vista Service Pac... (more)

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In sp1, vista | 11/03/2008 21:59:15

Make Vista SP1 permanent and gain gigabytes of disk space

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With Windows Vista Service comes a very handy tool which is called VSP1CLN.EXE, short for Vista Service Pack 1 Cleaner. The tool can be found in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 and when run it makes Windows Vis... (more)

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In sp1, vista | 29/02/2008 19:41:06

Script for enabling Network discovery and File and Printer sharing in Vista

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In Windows Vista it might at a first glance appear to be tricky to automatically enable File and Printer sharing and Network discovery. However it is actually very easy when you know what to type. The... (more)

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In vista | 14/02/2008 20:33:58

Spelling error in Vista with SP1 RTM: Histroy instead of History

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For the first time ever I have found an English spelling error in a final Microsoft product. I noticed it today while reading the explanatory text for the policy setting “Exclude directories in roamin... (more)

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In sp1, vista | 14/02/2008 20:30:22

Vista slowness problem gets solution pre-SP1

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Microsoft has just released a Knowledge Base article about the fact that Windows Vista systems using Folder Redirection are experiencing slowness’s of about 30 seconds when you do not have a connectio... (more)

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In vista | 20/01/2008 09:01:32

Slipstream the “new” Windows Update components

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More than half a year ago Microsoft silently released updated Windows Update components. No official notice was made about this silent release until now, when Microsoft finally published a Knowledge B... (more)

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In vista, windows update | 20/01/2008 08:58:02

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