How to Change Windows Explorer Default Folder. How to open God Mode on Windows 7 & Vista. The Windows Vista Shell, Thumbnails and Managed Code. Quick update on this post - Ian kindly gave me a nudge and said that running of .NET code inside of the shell might not be supported in that the shell loading COM components implemented in .NET might cause some versioning problems. I'll see if I can find an official answer to that and post it here but, in the meantime, apply a reasonably large dose of salt to the post. One of the nice features of the Vista shell is its ability to display different sizes of thumbnails based on the actual contents of a document. So, when I'm looking through a folder of 100's of PowerPoints or Spreadsheets I can actually see what it is I'm looking at in the shell rather than having to open all the documents.
You can plug into this for your own document types by writing an implementation of the interface IThumbnailProvider and returning a bitmap back to the shell for it to use. I've built my own document type the .shape file and into a .shape file you can put a little bit of XML such as; <Type>CircleType> Shape> Mount .iso files under windows XP. This free program for Windows XP lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe For anyone unfamiliar with the terms 'virtual CD' or 'CD emulator', they mean that you can copy the entire contents of a CD-ROM to your hard disk and run the programs or access the files without the original CD in your machine. This can make files more accessible, faster and more convenient. Given the speed and size of today's hard drives, you could easily fit a number of CDs onto your hard drive without noticing the difference.
Assuming you had 30 full CDs, these would take around 20GB on a hard drive and all will be accessible after a few clicks of a mouse. Why would we want to do this? One reason is convenience, imagine needing several (handfuls of) discs that you need to carry with you. A second reason is speed. Note: This tool only works with ISO images - not BIN/CUE image sets. For a more completed tutorial (including how to make an ISO from a CD) click here. Hyper-V: Gotchas - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki.
Note: This article is based on Hyper-V 2.0 and might not apply to Hyper-V 3.0 (Server 2012) TechEd Demo Edit These are the top "gotchas" or "known issues" that folks seem to have trouble with in Hyper-V. "Gotchas" are sometimes also called "lessons learned" and "best practices. " It is a best practice to avoid a known "gotcha". Please add any you have encountered.Applies to:All versions of Hyper-V TIP: Subscribe to the RSS feed for this wiki page to get auto-notification when it is updated! To see when this topic was last updated, and with what information, click the "History" tab.
When running a live migration using SCVMM 2008, live migration failed with Error (10698) Virtual machine [guest] could not be live migrated to virtual machine host [host] using this cluster configuration. Fortunately, I managed to free up disk space by deleting an old test guest VM after which I could freely live migrate once again. New! Hyper-V Snapshot FAQ Snapshots are not backups.
. . . . . , Symantec Ghost. <add> Element for schemeSettings (Uri Settings) Adds a scheme setting for a scheme name. The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements Attributes {Attribute name} Attribute Child Elements None Parent Elements By default, the System.Uri class un-escapes percent encoded path delimiters before executing path compression.
If this URI gets passed down to modules not handling percent encoded characters correctly, it could result in the following command being executed by the server: c:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c dir c:\ For this reason, System.Uri class first un-escapes path delimiters and then applies path compression. This default behavior can be modified to not un-escape percent encoded path delimiters using the schemeSettings configuration option for a specific scheme.
Configuration Files This element can be used in the application configuration file or the machine configuration file (Machine.config). How to: View Certificates with the MMC Snap-in. When you create a secure client or service, you can use a certificate as the credential. For example, a common type of credential is the X.509 certificate, which you create with the X509CertificateInitiatorClientCredential.SetCertificate method. There are three different types of certificate stores that you can examine with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on Windows systems: Local computer: The store is local to the device and global to all users on the device.Current user: The store is local to the current user account on the device.Service account: The store is local to a particular service on the device. View certificates in the MMC snap-in The following procedure demonstrates how to examine the stores on your local device to find an appropriate certificate: View certificates with the Certificate Manager tool You can also view, export, import, and delete certificates by using the Certificate Manager tool.
To view certificates for the local device See also. Are You Tired of Your Slow PC?