Windows 8 Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
Mouse and keyboard: What's new in Windows 8 Consumer Preview [This information is preliminary and subject to change.] Most of what you know about using a mouse and keyboard…
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Download
Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available for download. Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup will check to see if your PC can run Windows 8 Consumer Preview and…
Windows 8 Touch Guidance
Microsoft released a four page PDF on Windows 8 Touch including Guidance, Language, Posture, and Targets. The PDF is available from Microsoft at this direct link and is…
Windows 8 Logo
With Windows 8, we approached the logo redesign with a few key goals on mind. - Sam Moreau Principal Director of User Experience for Windows
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Date Confirmed
February 29th, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain Microsoft is expected to formally launch Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Continue reading
Windows 7 – Problem Steps Recorder
Neat feature, didn't even know about it. Windows 7 has a tool to help techs troubleshoot user problems by allowing the end-user to record in screenshots the steps…
Get ALL table and column descriptions in MSSQL
Get MS_Description from all tables AND columns in a database. Suh-weet. SELECT u.name + '.' + t.name AS , td.value AS [table_desc], c.name AS [column], cd.value AS [column_desc]…
Outlook Signature and Stationery Folder in Windows 7
I always forget but I usually end up starting in the right place hunting down the signature local store on my computer for Outlook. Start -> %appdata% Navigate…
wmic output hangs when using psexec
I recently found when trying to issue a wmic query on a remote system with psexec (1.98) it would hang and not display results. The solution is to…
MSDN Bug Check Code Reference
Bug Check Code Reference from MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh406232(v=vs.85).aspx Great site with lots of collected information from an MVP http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html I once had a complete listing with search capability (https://techish.net/bugcodes/)…
Visualizing SQLIO: Disk benchmark results using a PivotChart
This is a quick video of what I was working on for a little today. I created a batch script that will benchmark a disk(s) using SQLIO and…
SQL Performance Monitoring
I have read numerous articles all over the 'net regarding performance counters to monitor, etc. This is a snapshot of a typical performance monitoring session I use to…
SQLIO Scripts and Graphs
One of probably hundreds of SQL scripts out there. This is what I made and use... and I like it. There are a lot of other scripts out…
Video: SNMP Services on Server 2008 R2
Here’s a quick video on setting up SNMP services on Windows Server 2008 R2. [SLVideoPlayer file=SNMP2008R2.mp4, width=640, height=480 /]
Windows Update – Error number: 0x8DDD0018
When attempting to run Windows Update the following message appears: ‘Error number: 0x8DDD0018.’ This message states that the Automatic Updates, BITS, and Event Log services must be started,…