There have been several software packages in the past few years which did pretty much that: synchronizing data with different machines.  If you have a few computers, it’s hard getting that data between your machines. So for example let’s say you have a laptop and a workstation. Microsoft released Groove a few years back which [...]

There have been a number of machines that I tried to boot with the Acronis True Image Rescue CD only to find that the booting would hang. What you need to do is press F11 when you are taken to the screen which gives you the screen selection of boot to windows or acronis. A [...]

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 all have the ADMX files locally on the system. In your systemroot folder, you will see a policy definitions folder. This is what you are looking for. Now what you want to do is create a central store. If you go to GPMC and try to create a [...]

When you utilize group policy, there are different administrative templates for Vista, XP, and 7. Instead of having to create a new OU for XP vs Vista and 7 clients, you can use WMI filtering to apply the correct policy based on OS. To accomplish this, Launch GPMC Right click on WMI filters on the [...]

Today I had to figure out what domain groups a user was a part of.  I had to find out if a particular user was part of a specific domain group or not, so that I could verify if that group was part of the server’s local administrators group. And if it wasn’t, then I [...]

By default Microsoft Windows hides many of its critical files from the user. One particular folder includes the user’s application data. There are times when you need to access these folders to access particular files or make backups. WINDOWS XP & WINDOWS 2003 1. Goto my computer. 2. Select the Tools menu and click Folder [...]

The Outlook autocomplete file is that the file the holds the addresses that appear when you start typing away an email address in the To: field. Many times you may compose an email address that is not part of your address book. So this is what that autocomplete file populates- the list of all those [...]