Tip 48: Setting Up and Installing Printers in Windows
This tip is for Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7 and possibly 8. This is going to be a long post, but is not meant to be all inclusive. There are definitely other ways to...
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Tip 47: One Windows System Stability Index Score to Rule Them All
This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 Server RTM and up. Since I talked about Wbemtest.exe and Windows System Stability Index in the last posts I thought I would do something useful with the...
Tip 46: Is This Computer Junk? Windows Reliability Index and Reliability Monitor
This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 Server RTM and up. How reliable is a computer? Most of the time if you ask this question, you will get a subjective answer; depending on the...
Tip 45: WBEMTEST, the underappreciated tool
This tip is for all versions of Windows, Windows NT and up. One of my favorite built in tools in Windows is Wbemtest.exe. It is not the prettiest program ever created, but the power...
Tip 44: How Fast is That Download in the Window
This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 RTM, 2008 R2 and 7. Your Internet Explorer download window may be lying to you. If so,how can you tell? Your Youtube video is taking forever to...
Tip 43: SharePoint 2010 – Create a New Active Directory Attribute and Map into the User Profile Store
This tip is for SharePoint Server 2010. I had this post sitting for a bit in my drafts and decided I should put it out there. User profiles have been getting a lot of...
Tip 42: Viewing Detailed Windows 7 Wireless Information
Happy 802.11 day! This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 RTM, 2008 R2 and 7. If you work on a laptop, you will have undoubtedly run into the following scenario. You try to connect...
Tip 41: The Phantom of the Session 0
This tip is for Windows Vista, 7, 2008 and 2008 R2. Windows Vista introduced session 0 driver and service isolation. To understand why this is cool, see the following article; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463353.aspx. When a program...
Changing the Game
If anyone is out there and reading this, you may have noticed the scarcity of tips lately. Expect some new content in the future as I have moved on to a new position, Premier...
Tip 40: IIS Application Pool Tracking
This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. When strange things happen to IIS application pools I am reminded of...
