Microsoft
Reboot PC via MSTSC
Care of: http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2006/10/21/Ways-to-shutdown_2F00_restart-your-computer-via-Remote-Desktop_2E00_.aspx
These next two tricks are documented and will continue to work in future versions of Windows:
If you’re a command line person, you can run shutdown.exe, but that program supports only shutdown and restart; it doesn’t do stand-by or hibernate. But the shutdown.exe program has a serious flaw: It requires you to have administrator [...]
MSIE 8 Tabbed Browsing
In order to adjust MSIE 8 behavior to open new windows in tabs instead of in a new window, the following config changes are indicated:
MSIE8 => Tools => Options => Tabs (subsection) => Settings (Button) => Opens Tab Settings Window
Tabs Setting Window => When a pop-up is encountered (subsection) => Always open pop-ups in a [...]
My Windows 7 Experience, Day 3
Windows 7 continued to fuss at me every time I’d boot up about the Tages anti-piracy drivers not being compatible. I deleted the drivers (deleted them from the %systemroot%\system32\drivers directory) without any problems.
Nothing I want on my computer has blown up yet, and I’ve had no real issues. (It helps that I was out of [...]
My Windows 7 Experience, Day 1
I had a rough night last night, so I figured I’d risk making it worse (I’m a risk taker, yup) by upgrading my Windows Vista box to Windows 7. I have the Ultimate version of both. Vista Ultimate includes a bunch of media apps I never had any interest in, including Media Center… but once [...]
Microsoft Terminal Services Client
Keyworks: MSTSC, RDP, Remote Desktop
How to change from window to fullscreen mode:
CTRL-ALT-BREAK
Microsoft Archive: Event Viewer
Event Viewer can be easily accessed using Start > Run > eventvwr.msc
Microsoft Archive: Services
Opening the Services Microsoft Console (MMC)
SERVICES.MSC
From a CMD batch file:
mmc %systemroot%\system32\services.msc
Microsoft Archive: DCOM Config Utility
DCOMCNFG.EXE
Microsoft Archive: Converting FAT32 to NTFS
I have an external USB HDD which I originally formatted with FAT32, not that I recall why at the moment… anyway, I need to put some files on it that are larger than 2 GB (which is a FAT32 limitation), so I need to convert to NTFS.
Enter the Microsoft Technet Knowledgebase:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881
Don’t be a Victim of DNS Security Holes
Since DNS cache poisoning attacks are far beyond my normal realm of responsibility, it’s hard for me to really talk about the topic. I did make a post about it on my work blog a few days ago, but only because Microsoft released a patch for Windows DNS servers [MS08-037] and Nortel commented on it’s applicability [...]
