Sometimes the Windows 7 functionality to automatically arrange or resize a window while dragging is a pain. This feature is called Aero Snap. Here are good news, you can disable the behaviour :-).
Open the Control Panel, go to “Ease of Access center”. If you are there, click “Make the mouse easier to use” and enable “Prevent Windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen”.
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To get a offline installation of Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (formerly known as WAIK) download the Websetup ADKSetup.exe and start it – Windows .NET 4 is requiered. If not installed ADKSetup starts the installation – at the first screen you can set the location. When you specify a download path the complete ADK is stored this folder.
Importent: Start adksetup with Administrator permissions, otherwise the option “Download the Assentment…” is invisible.
Share the folder and execute ADKsetup.exe from this location.
Michael
Hi,
if you migrate a Windows Installation to another Computer or virtual environment such as VMWare ESXi or VMWare Workstation it could happen that the system won’t start.
A typical error when the master boot record or the boot sector of the boot partition needs to be updated or must be rewritten is when
For all cases you can use the command line program “testdisk” which is part of the most linux live CDs/DVDs to correct this.
Continue reading Windows: Windows did not start. Howto write a new MBR and recover Windows OS Bootsector
Hi,
this posts describes which steps are necassary to add or repair a masstorage driver in an exiting Windows installation.
If a Windows boot ends with a bluescreen STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, the system is unable to load a driver for your disk controller properly.
It is possible to correct this and respective, if the hardware changed, to add a driver manually.
The masstorage device driver is registered in Windows at five positions:
An example. Installing the Intel Rapid Storage (RST) Driver. Download the driver from the Homepage of the manufacturer, extract it and copy the files to an USB Stick or burn a cd.
Continue reading Windows. Stop 0x0000007B. How to add a mass storage driver manually
Hi,
for VMware vSphere a very powerfull Scripting engine is available which is called PowerCLI. PowerCLI based on, the also very powerfull, Microsoft powershell.
The Basics
Get the PowerCLI package from the VMware website and install it on your Windows Computer or on the VMware vCenter Server. Ok, lets start.
Open PowerCLI Command prompt by clicking “VMware vSphere PowerCLI (32-Bit)” Icon. Note: The 64Bit Version(both the 32Bit and 64Bit versions were installed) did support all commands. For example when you clone a computer by the New-VM Command-Let and specifiy the OSCustomizationSpec parameter the follwing error was thrown.
New-VM -VM "ComputerTemplate" -Location "Windows Clients" -ResourcePool Resources -OSCustomizationSpec "Windows XP Client" -Datastore esxdatastore0 -Name "COMPUTER1" New-VM : 26.06.2013 23:37:42 New-VM is not a valid Win32 application. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700C1)
However start the 32Bit Version :-). First you have to connect to your vCenter. If your Windows Account, with which you logged on, have the appropriate rights to connect to vCenter simply call
Connect-VIServer NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com
If logon successeds 2 global object variables are set to which all following commands refers to.
global:DefaultVIServer NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com
global:DefaultVIServers {NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com}
Alternatively you can assign the vCenter Object to a variable and append the -Server <VIServer[]> parameter to each command. This is usefull if you have multiple instances of vCenter.
$oSecondVCenter=Connect-VIServer NameOfYourvCenter.domain.com Set-Vm -VM "OldName" -name "New-Name" -Server $oSecondVCenter
By default, all command are executed synchronous. This means the command prompt returned not until the tasks is finished. To start jobs asynchronus append the -RunAsync parameter to each command line.
Lets start with some example scripts
Continue reading VMware: A (incomplete) list with some PowerCLI Scripts for vSphere