Monthly Archives: April 2010
Delete Hiberfil.sys to regain space
Just incase you didn’t know when you activate the hibernate function on your laptop or computer, Windows takes a snapshot of your running programs, open files, etc. and writes that information to your hard drive in a file. The hibernate function was designed to speed up shutdowns and restarts and save power on laptops. Hiberfil.sys, is the name…
Q&A Monday:How can I display computer information on my desktop?
Question: I was visiting another data center and while given a glimpse of their servers, I saw on the desktops of their server had their server information. I’ve seen this at other companies, and with the large amount of physical and virtual servers I have in my data center, it would help me keep the…
Blackberry Java Exception
A Blackberry was handed to me, that wouldn’t turn on the Bluetooth on the device. When I would click to turn it on…it would try and then uncheck the box and show me a red X. Going to the Bluetooth options or attempting to connect the Bluetooth would do nothing…I could click and click…
Exchange 2007 and Shared Mailboxes
In many environments it might come in handy to create a “Shared Mailbox”, this would be a mailbox that does not have an “active” user associated with this. Exchange 2007 lets you create a shared mailbox, that created and then disabled an active directory account. This creates the mailbox without the pesky problem of having…
Q&A Monday: Move Files to New Computer
Question: Hi, I have an XP SP3 setup that I’ve tweaked to perfection (for me at least) and would like to maintain those files and settings when I get a new PC. Both machines have ASUS motherboards, the old with Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, the new with Intel i5. I have done some research…
Helpful XP Registry Hacks – Part 2
I had a couple more registry hacks that I thought might be interesting, but not as useful as the first bunch. Since it is Friday and usually I have these things thought out, I’m going to throw more registry hacks at you…and maybe you’ll find them more useful than I do. Change categories in the Control…
Dell PowerVault NAS 8002801d error
Ok, so if you are reading this entry, then that means like me, you are administering a Dell PowerVault NAS error and when going to certain managment websites you got one of the following errors: Persistent Images to Restore, error ‘8002801d’ ,Library not registered. /snapshots/psm_vr_list.asp, line 513 Volume Settings, error ‘8002801d’ ,Library not registered. /snapshots/psm_setup_list.asp, line…
Q&A Monday: Finding Enabled Active Directory Users
Question: We are looking at a couple different software packages for several processes in my company, though a lot of vendors are charging by active AD accounts. Is there a way to just find all enabled active directory accounts, without having to goto all OU’s and count them. Answer: I have been there many times,…
Helpful XP Registry Hacks
Every-once in a while, someone asks me for neat little tricks or how to customize their computer. One of the things that I find fun to do, are registry hacks to make Windows XP do things that otherwise I couldn’t do. Also some of these things can be implemented as minor security measures or help you…
Q&A Wednesday: Screen Saver Group Policy
Since I for some reason thought that Monday was Wednesday, it only seems right for me to post Q&A Monday on Wednesday: Question: Hi I am currently running Windows 2003 on my servers. I have two DC’s in my environment. Clients are running Windows XP. I have 5 OUs created for the varying users in…