Todays Tip from Robert Mitchell… First for Windows RT, As part of the effort to improve battery life and PC responsiveness, the startup apps support in Windows RT was removed. Change Description: Windows RT does not honor startup app entries in the following locations: · Run key under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion · Run key under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion ·… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Understanding Startup Items
Month: March 2013
Xperf for the layman, performance analysis unchained, Windows Assessment Toolkit revealed.
If you have been following along in performance land the last year or three, you’d hear about xperf and the WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit). Mayhap you’ve had some time to practice and you know what you are doing. Cool. This tool might still interest you. If you, on the other hand, haven’t heard of these,… Continue reading Xperf for the layman, performance analysis unchained, Windows Assessment Toolkit revealed.
How to deploy 2775511 using SCCM, by the Gris!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/michaelgriswold/archive/2013/03/13/kb2775511-deployment-for-the-sccm-admin.aspx Check it out, old time buddy Michael Griswold posts instructions on how to deploy 2775511, the reliability and performance hotfix for the enterprise, using SCCM!
Download this KB now!
And test it first please. An enterprise hotfix rollup is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511 This is a collection of the various updates we kept (we being PFEs who do WDRAP in particular) and Yong Rhee published for us, like http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee/archive/2012/02/19/list-of-performance-hotfixes-post-sp1-for-windows-7-sp1.aspx. This is now a Rollup for Enterprises. … Continue reading Download this KB now!
Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Startup and MSConfig
Another gem by Robert Mitchell! Today’s Tip… I remember back in NT4 the only way to track down your startup items was to look in the registry and the Startup group. Then MSCONFIG.EXE came along in Windows 2000 and made troubleshooting so much easier. In Windows 8 we see yet another change. While MSCONFIG.EXE… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Startup and MSConfig
Windows 8 Tip of the Day, SMB protocols
Today’s Tip…brought to you by Robert Mitchell! SMB 2.0 was first introduced in Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008. It was considered to be tighter and removed some of the chattiness of the previous version. SMB 2.1 was introduced in Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 and included an opportunistic locking mechanism SMB 3.0 was introduced with Windows… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day, SMB protocols