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Android Remote Desktop Client
I find that I am increasingly relying on the computing power of my Android smartphone (a HTC Desire) and finding novel ways of using it to make my IT life easier. Sometimes I just want to connect to my...
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Installing Team Foundation Server on Windows Home Server 2011
Twelve months ago I wrote a post documenting “installing Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows Home Server” which has proved very popular. Well things move on and since then Microsoft have released a...
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Using Ubuntu via VirtualBox Seamless Mode
I like Ubuntu and I enjoy using it, although I’m still a windows guy at heart (at least for the time being anyhow but we’ll see if Win8 ever grows on me) and I use a lot of Windows only apps. The...
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The End Of TechNet Downloads Raises The Barrier To Entry For MS Techies
Microsoft unfortunately recently announced the demise of the TechNet Subscription. Whilst I appreciate that TechNet download abuse must contribute towards the availability of pirated products, I still...
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Full Screen Remote Desktop Sessions
Sometimes if you are on a new machine or using Remote Desktop for the first time you might find that the display size is not correct when you connect to a remote machine. If the remote machine session...
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Boot into Safe Mode With Windows 8
My laptop running Windows 8.1 decided not to boot this week but instead gave me a blue screen with the error "System Thread Exception Not Handled". As I’d not installed anything new recently I guessed...
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Android Remote Desktop Client
I find that I am increasingly relying on the computing power of my Android smartphone (a HTC Desire) and finding novel ways of using it to make my IT life easier. Sometimes I just want to connect to my...
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Installing Team Foundation Server on Windows Home Server 2011
Twelve months ago I wrote a post documenting “installing Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows Home Server” which has proved very popular. Well things move on and since then Microsoft have released a...
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Using Ubuntu via VirtualBox Seamless Mode
I like Ubuntu and I enjoy using it, although I’m still a windows guy at heart (at least for the time being anyhow but we’ll see if Win8 ever grows on me) and I use a lot of Windows only apps. The...
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The End Of TechNet Downloads Raises The Barrier To Entry For MS Techies
Microsoft unfortunately recently announced the demise of the TechNet Subscription. Whilst I appreciate that TechNet download abuse must contribute towards the availability of pirated products, I still...
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Full Screen Remote Desktop Sessions
Sometimes if you are on a new machine or using Remote Desktop for the first time you might find that the display size is not correct when you connect to a remote machine. If the remote machine session...
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Boot into Safe Mode With Windows 8
My laptop running Windows 8.1 decided not to boot this week but instead gave me a blue screen with the error "System Thread Exception Not Handled". As I’d not installed anything new recently I guessed...
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Allow PowerShell Execution
By default PowerShell’s execution policy is very restrictive which is a good thing for security. If you are editing or running scripts on your machine you may want to relax it slightly. As I often...
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Disable Start Menu Web Search in Windows 10
If like me you like the Windows 10 “start” menu to only provide applications and Windows settings in the search results and not web search results you need to configure it using these steps. Using the...
View ArticleCalculate a file hash without 3rd party tools on Windows & Linux.
If you need to generate a hash of a file (e.g. MD5, SHA256 etc) then there are numerous 3rd party tools that you can download but if you are restricted to only built in tools or don’t need to do this...
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Cmder – A Better Windows Console
Whilst Linux treats console users as first rate citizens and provides many useful and powerful terminal emulators Windows has always lagged behind. This is evermore noticeable now that many developer...
View ArticleRunAs Issue? Check Secondary Logon Service.
On Windows if you are having problems trying to perform an action as a different user via the RunAs command then it might be due to the ‘Secondary Logon Service’ not running. I recently had this...
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