I’ve been playing around with Hyper-V. I found that I can convert my existing ghost images into Hyper-v disks by doing the following with Ghost 12. This will convert an existing ghost image to a new hyper-v disk image. ghost64.exe -clone,mode=restore,src=J:\ghostimg.gho,dst=e:\HYPERV\hyperv.vhd...
Similarly to the 7-zip silent install script, I also use the following script on my servers during their original build and patching: pushd "\\epmfileserver\share\utilities" npp.6.6.9.Installer.exe /S popd I’m not sure if any of you have ever used pushd and popd, but...
I’m just sharing a little script I use to install 7zip in silent mode. pushd "\\epmfileserver.mydomain.com\share\utilities" 7z920-x64.msi /q INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\7-Zip" popd I’m not sure if any of you have ever used pushd and popd, but they are pretty handy. The pushd...
I cloned my Dell XPS laptop’s 500GB hard drive to a 240GB SSD. The clone took over 5 hours to complete successfully. After rebooting, I received the following: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or software change might be the...
WE have been troubleshooting issues with DRM, and had a need to view the event logs. We found that our event logs were overwriting themselves every hour, which didn’t help us when we needed to identify an issue that happened 4...
I was searching around a few days ago for an opensource or freeware software virtualization tool like Vmware’s ThinApp. I stumbled across Cameyo (http://www.cameyo.com/). This is a pretty nice tool. You start the installation monitoring/listening tool, and it records all of the changes made to...
Install Xming from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Create a new or modify a SSH session in SecureCRT and check the following box under Connection -> Port Fowarding -> Remote/X11. Make sure X Forwarding is enabled on the server: yum -y install xorg-x11-apps xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-utils sed...
I recently installed VirtuaWin on my Windows 7 machine, because I really needed organization in my life. I have fallen in love with it. It is a great app that gives any Windows machine virtual workspaces or desktops, like those found...
If you have a Windows Vista machine that repeats the same updates over and over with them failing, try the following links: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958053 [ad#ad-post]...
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