Posts Tagged windows xp
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
Posted by jayb in Microsoft, Technology on October 29, 2007
After just coming back to XP (link) This is a great list of new free software to try.
Description: I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how you can outfit your computer with all the essential (and non-essential) software you need using strictly 100% freeware and/or [...]
Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
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Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:48:54 GMT
Window Clippings 1.2 by Kenny Kerr
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on January 5, 2007
Most of the time I blog about Windows Speech related things, but today I found a really neat utility written by Kenny Kerr I just have to share. It’s called Window Clippings. It makes capturing screen shots of Windows applications much easier than the built in PrintScreen capabilities, and it rivals commercially available software, IMO. But, Window Clippings is free.
Here’s Kenny’s motivation for writing Window Clippings:
Window Clippings 1.0 was also born out of frustration. I often need to get an image of an application window for an article I may be writing. Doesn’t Alt+PrtScn do that? Well yes and no. Alt+PrtScn creates an image of the window rectangle, but most people run Windows XP which supports themes that typically draw non-rectangular windows, known as window regions. Even if you’re using the Windows Classic theme, which defaults to rectangular windows, many applications today uses regions directly.
Since 1.0, Kenny’s added a lot of cool new features, and integration with the Windows Vista Desktop Window Manager (DWM) so it works well with Aero glass.
There are many nice things about Window Clippings. Here are two of my favorites:
- Automatically saves the image in a variety of formats to a pre-defined location on your computer (making the journaling of an experience a lot easier).
- An option to "clean" up the glass to prevent the glass from looking dirty by seeing thru the glass to what’s behind it.
Thanks for the handy utility, Kenny.
[Via The Galactic Patrol]
Image Windows XP with Ghost and Sysprep
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on April 2, 2006
Clear instructions on how to use Ghost and Sysprep to create a universal disk image of Windows XP that will restore onto any computer. No more reinstalling necessary after making this.
Link: Hisham?€™s Blog
[Via Two Mad Geeks]
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Command-line reference A-Z
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on April 2, 2006
this is great! I use both kix and batch files for startup scripts
Command line plus description and associated switches.
Link: Microsoft
[Via Two Mad Geeks]
RE: Tutorial: How to Build an Effective Virtual Machine Template
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on March 26, 2006
This is written for VM Workstation, but a lot of the ideas will work on ESX.
Virtual Strategy Magazine published a tutorial on how create and customize an optimized master virtual machine for creating several clones for work:
Many people have been asking for some tips on how to build a VMware Workstation virtual machine. The following guide has been written with the assumption that this will be the first virtual machine you will be configuring, and that you will be creating this as a template virtual machine.
A template virtual machine, will be a virtual machine, configured by you, which will be prepared for rapid deployment of additional virtual machines. Rapid Deployment means being able to deploy a new pre-configured virtual machine in 10 to 15 minutes.
An assumption will be made that you have the current version of VMware Workstation (as of this writing, version 5.5.1 build 19175) installed on your workstation. It will also be assumed that you understand how to install and configure Windows XP Professional, as this will be the operating system configured as the template.
Read the whole article at source.
[Via virtualization.info]
Implement WPA2-Personal wireless security on a Windows XP SP2-based computer
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on March 26, 2006
Barb Bowman introduces you to the latest version of wireless security WPA2 and shows you how to implement it on your Windows XP SP2 based computers.
[Via Windows XP Expert Zone Community]
Non-Admin Rights
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on November 18, 2005
I’ve been searching for a way to allow a non-admin on Windows XP to change the network settings (IP address,subnet,gateway,dns,etc)
Well I was search for a solution I found this blog posting about a nice little script that will make a user an admin, start a new process with admin rights, then remove the user from the admin group. Its using runas, so to be really usefull I need to find a way to script in the admin password (encrypted)
Also I still have not been able to find a way to have a non-admin user change network settings. If you found a way, please let me know.
Thanks,jb
Updated: Thincomputing.net Tools
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on November 3, 2005
In my work over the years I’ve noticed that I usually use the same tools when dealing with Server Based Computing environments. I’ve decided to bundle all the tools that I frequently use into an "installer" package called Thincomputing.net Tools. The Thincomputing.net Tools package download is about 4MB in size. All tools should run on Windows XP, W2k and Windows Server 2003.
Update: at the request of Mark Russinovich I have removed the sysinternals tools from the Thincomputing.net Tools package due to distribution restrictions.
Read more and download here. Be sure to read the readme in the installation folder!
[Via Thincomputing.net]
Free Windows CD/DVD software roundup
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on September 25, 2005
I don’t know how many e-mails I’ve received asking me about alternative solutions to commercial CD and DVD burning applications like Nero and Roxio, so I’ve finally decided to put together a short but sweet list of free applications so you can create your own CDs and DVDs at home. Read on for the full list, and yes, I’ll be doing Mac and Linux versions of the roundup soon.
- Burnatonce- the basic installation lets you burn CDs without restrictions, but if you want to burn DVDs, you’ll need to install a separate shareware application (probably to avoid legal problems). With Burtatonce, you can create audio and data CDs. It supports burning ISO, CUE, and TOC images, and best of all, will automatically convert FLAC, MP2, MP3, OGG, and WAV files to audio CD.
- CDBurnerXP Pro- this is the solution I used for a long time before going back to Nero, and is one of the best, in my opinion. Not only can you create audio, data, and video discs on both CDs and DVDs, but it will also rip CDs, convert different disc image and audio formats, lets you create covert art, and more. I highly recommend this solution.
- DeepBurner (Free version)- a pretty good solution for creating audio and data CDs and DVDs, with a nice Windows Explorer-like interface. The free version is only available for personal use.
- GUIs for CDRTools- this is not really one program, but a collection of small programs which act as frontends to the free, command line CD creation tool, CDRTools. Easy Burning is one of the best, and easily integrates into Windows 98 or higher, offering basic burning tools. The page has other tools available, like ISOBurn to burn ISO images to CD.
- ISORecorded Power Toy- Windows XP has basic CD and DVD burning capabilities, but you cannot burn ISO images, which is where this tool comes in. The original version works great, but works only on Windows XP with up to Service Pack 1. There are other versions available for Service Pack 2, but I’ve had trouble getting them to run properly.
[Via TipMonkies]
How to Manage Power Settings as a Non-Admin
Posted by jayb in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005
This post is great for Admins trying to run with least privileges for their users. The post also includes a link for a way to view the calendar in the time/date applet without being an admin
A regular “user” does not have the ability to modify their power settings.? This is a real pain especially for laptop users.? The default Windows XP installation does a standby after 10 minutes of activity and a hibernate after 30 minutes.? There is nothing more frustrating for a user than to be in the middle of a presentation and have the laptop go into standby mode.? The only solution for this in the past was to give the user temporary Power User or Administrator rights on the PC since power management is managed on a per user basis.
I was doing some digging tonight and found this great gem on how to grant the rights for non-admins to manage their own power settings: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/02/09/370263.aspx
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