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About Virtualization, VDI, SBC, Application Compatibility and anything else I feel like
19 Dec // php the_time('Y') ?>
I was cleaning up some old data on my Hard Drive when I found a program I wrote about a year ago.
At that time I was doing a project where I was deploying a Windows 2008 based Citrix Environment.
I wanted to get rid of the new Personal Folders or User’s files icon on the Desktop and replace it with the familiar My Documents icon.
These settings are stored in the Registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{folder’s GUID}\ShellFolder.
19 Dec // php the_time('Y') ?>
As you probably know there are several different Folder Views in Windows Explorer:
The Explorer keeps tracks of the last used View per Folder in the registry in the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags. This KB article sort of desribes this functionality.
6 Dec // php the_time('Y') ?>
I was trying to install a checked build of Windows 7 under VMWare Workstation but after the first reboot during the install (the completing installation step) the system came up with a BSOD.
It can be fixed by adding a line to the VMX configuration file:
piix4pm.smooth_acpi_timer = TRUE
20 Oct // php the_time('Y') ?>
Some time ago (2008 actually) I wrote a tool that can assign driveletters given a volumename. I use it myself after SysPrep operations to assign the desired drive letters. For instance after cloning a Virtual Machine from a template.
I noticed that I updated this tool sometime after the original post but never uploaded it here. The most important changes are:
12 Sep // php the_time('Y') ?>
I have written a small commandline tool that shows the Active Directory Property Sheet for a given account.
The Property sheet is what you get when you doubleclick an object in Active Directory & Computers. Basically this tool is meant to make it easy to quickly view or change properties without needing to start a GUI tool and looking up the account in the AD Tree.
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15 Jun // php the_time('Y') ?>
If you look into the registry in the key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\ProductOptions you will find several licensing related Values.
The ProductType and ProductSuite keys contain the OS Suite and Edition, but the ProductPolicy key is much more interesting. So let’s have a closer look at it, open RegEdit and DoubleClick the key, you will something like the screenshot below, a Binary Value:
As you can see the license names are there as a Unicode string and later on I will show you how we can read the values. But because I didn’t want to extract all the names manually I decided to see if I could reverse the used structure because it didn’t look very complicated. Using a Hex Editor I could determine the important part of the structure.
22 Feb // php the_time('Y') ?>
My hoster has had some problems with the simulatesas.com domain that I use for SasLibEx enquiries. If you have sent mail to that has not been answered I kindly request you to send it again.
I would also like to briefly tell you about an upcoming new release of SasLib, version 2.0. There is so much I would like to tell you about it but I will limit it to a few highlights here and save the rest for the upcoming website on SimulateSAS.com.
I feel especially good about 2.0 because further improvements were made to the code, again some highlights:
26 Nov // php the_time('Y') ?>
I never liked the new eventviewer that was introduced with Windows Vista. If you want to have the old eventviewer back (you can use the old and new one together) you need to follow the following steps:
It should look like this:
Doubleclicking an Event feels familiar as well:
25 Nov // php the_time('Y') ?>
Windows Vista introduced the Command Bar in Explorer which is sometimes also referred to as the Folder Band or the Task Band. The Command Bar is of course also present in Windows 7 and Server 2008 (R2).
This Command Bar shows possible tasks or actions depending on the active folder. I wanted to remove the “Uninstall or change a program” (in Dutch this is called “Een programma verwijderen of wijzigen”) button from the Computer view:
18 Sep // php the_time('Y') ?>
I just installed my laptop with Windows 7 (x64) and I was curious how the new Windows XP mode worked (more on that topic later). After installing it I could no longer start any Virtual Machines in VMWare Workstation. The VM fired up but immediately halted with the following error: “VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)” “VCPU 0 RunVM failed: -2”.