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 [...]

Sometimes we overlook the issue that is presented to us by not looking at the simplest things. So I ran into an issue where the machine was running Windows XP 64bit and things were running great. All of a sudden my computer reported 10GB for the drive. So what’s the deal? Checking the obvious, BIOS [...]

The infamous blue screen of death (BSOD) is what appears when you turn on your computer. Immediately you suspect a hard drive failure or data loss. This is not necessarily true. Remember, a BSOD is given by windows. So it must have at least read the hard drive to get the BSOD to show. So [...]

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 [...]

When you delete files in Windows XP, they go to the recycling bin. So are they really deleted? No, technically they are just moved. It’s kind of like a get me out of jail free card. So if you accidentally deleted a file that you needed, you can get it back. Of course, once you [...]

There have been times where you will install a program, and it will work for days, weeks, without problems. The one day when you need to get into it, you get a pop up that says “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a [...]

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 [...]