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By Ian Matthews – September 13, 2010 BRIEF HISTORY: Under XP there was limited security on print driver installation by restricted users. Under Vista there were serious limitations put on Restricted Users which you could resolve easily via Group Policy. Under Windows 7, the same restriction applied but the security was Read more…
By Ian Matthews January 22, 2009 NOTE: The author will not accept responsibility for damages as a result of following the suggestions below. They are provided “as is” and you need to verify these facts with your Microsoft licence in your country Since the new licencing model release in January Read more…
UPDATE: SEPT 20, 2019 – We have a refreshed version of this article available: How To Control What is Starting Up Automatically In Windows We have a related article: Control What Programs Are Starting Up Automatically Using New Free Program From Microsoft Prepared by Ian Matthews June 6, 2010, updated Read more…
Prepared by Ian Matthews June 23, 2010 – Last Updated May 10, 2011 MARCH 2014 SEE: http://www.urtech.ca/2014/03/solved-how-to-add-drivers-in-wds-windows-deployment-services/ This is the followup to how to add drivers to a Windows PE 2.0 (Vista) .WIM file. Today I needed to add a network driver to a Windows 7 PE 3.0 Boot Image Read more…
Prepared by Ian Matthews Sept 6, 2007, Last Updated Dec 15, 2008 MARCH 2014 SEE: http://www.urtech.ca/2014/03/solved-how-to-add-drivers-in-wds-windows-deployment-services/ This is the shortest documentation I could create on how to inject drivers into Win PE2.0 (or Vista WIM file). The screenshot beside STEP 5 displays the 3 critical commands I used to Read more…
I created the following two courses for some of my clients in 2007 and revised them in 2008 and recently decided to make them available for free. Note that I am not a professional trainer although I have provided dozens of semi-formal “lunch and learn” type courses since the mid-1990’s. Read more…
By Ian Matthews December 10, 2007 If you have noticed that your Windows 2000, XP or Vista PC is running slowly and that SVCHOST.EXE is taking 100% of your single core CPU system (or 50% of your dual core CPU system), this is the article for you! SVCHOST.EXE is a Read more…
Written by Ian Matthews November 7, 2007 PREAMLE: Because it is theoretically possible to disguise a Trojan as a print driver, Microsoft has configured Vista to block domain users (or any standard, non-administrator users) from installing new or updated printer drivers. After more than 11 hours of work with Microsoft Read more…
By Ian Matthews, September 20, 2007 Getting an modern motherboards integrated network card to PXE boot is usually as easy as entering the BIOS, enabling the BOOT ROM and setting the boot order to LAN first. Getting an add in card to PXE boot is a whole other matter. In Read more…
by Ian Matthews Written May 23, 2007 Last Updated May 23, 2007 The purpose of this article is to provide a 20 minute guide to Windows Vista’s new features and functions. There is a lot to learn so we also have three other articles you may want to read: Windows Read more…
by Ian Matthews Written April 10, 2007 Last Update Feb 22, 2008 The purpose of this article is to provide a 15 minute guide to Windows Vista’s advanced features and functions. There is a lot to learn so we also have three other articles you may want to read: Vista Read more…
by Ian Matthews Update April 1, 2007 WHAT IS USER ACCESS CONTROL (UAC)? User Access Control is likely the most controversial new feature in Windows Vista. In addition to beta testing Vista since Beta 1, I have attended several MS sponsored webinars, read Microsoft white papers and asked MS staffers Read more…
Update August 31 2005 by Ian Matthews of Up & Running Technolgies Inc Here are the quick facts and screen shots of Windows Vista. RELEASE DATES: Beta 1 was released in August to MSDN and TECHNET subscribers. Beta 2 is should be released in January 2006 to anyone is wants Read more…
written by Ian Matthews June 3, 2005 There are many articles which reference slip streaming and many of them provide the basic instruction. However, most of them do not tell you how to make the resulting Windows + SP CD bootable; the process below will: copy the entire Windows CD Read more…
Prepared by Ian Matthews April 23 2007 – Updated July 1 2007 There are many ways to make external devices bootable. USB/Flash/Pen/Thumb/Memory Sticks and even real external hard drives are now commonly used as boot devices. The process detailed below can be understood and successfully completed by anyone with basic Read more…
Invisible file extensions on Windows By Floydman, Bachelor in Computer Sciences floydian_99@yahoo.com Floydman@hacker.am May 7th, 2001 Abstract The goal of this paper is to present the research I made on invisible file extensions on the Windows operating systems. After I published my initial research material on various places on the Read more…