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
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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.
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
Quickly give someone a file in Windows 8
So Pieter Wigleven (a Dutch PFE that came to make some content with me in Seattle this week) had sent me an email with a PPTx attachment the other day and because his mail server is in Europe it was taking a while since we were in Seattle for the week. So I had an… Continue reading Quickly give someone a file in Windows 8
Windows 8 Tip of the day – How to recover ~6GB of space on your Microsoft Windows Surface
Here is how you can recoup ~6GB of space on your 32GB Surface. Here is what you need to do: (edited to fix link, add comment about removing the recovery partition.) 1. Note this will prevent the machine reset from being able to happen. If you don’t care about resetting your machine, Step 1 is… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the day – How to recover ~6GB of space on your Microsoft Windows Surface
The Dude does AngelBeat!
Check it out, the Dude will be presenting at Atlanta’s AngelBeat on Monday the 28th. http://www.angelbeat.com/events/492/ Also presenting at the Birmingham Alabama one on Tuesday the 29th. http://www.angelbeat.com/events/493 I’ll be talking on the session: 1:45 – 2:15: Microsoft Windows 8/Office2013 Preview, Systems Center 2012, Azure Cloud Offerings Windows 8 delivers experiences users… Continue reading The Dude does AngelBeat!
Windows 8 Tip of the Day
Today’s tip… To quickly start your Windows8/Server 2012 machine – Bring up Charms (Winkey+I OR mouse around in bottom-right corner to bring up Charms) – Settings which brings up the below screens (at the regular desktop OR at the Modern Desktop)
Windows 8 Tip of the Day–NTFS changes in Windows 8
Good Morning Internet, todays tip of the day is on Windows 8 and NTFS changes made: There is a fundamental change to NTFS in how we handle file system inconsistencies. Previously, there were a number of reasons that Windows would mark the file system dirty and urge the user to run a Chkdsk /f. Depending… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–NTFS changes in Windows 8
Tip of the Day for Windows 8!
A new blog series from the Great Robert Mitchell by way of the Dude! Who is Robert Mitchell you may ask?!?! He’s this guy: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/robert%20mitchell%20%5Bmsft%5D/ and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-mitchell/3/a0a/551 and http://www.windowsitpro.com/author/5787734/RobertMitchell Anyway, this is a series that runs internally for folks and the Dude said “hey, why don’t we socialize this?” and Robert was like “no… Continue reading Tip of the Day for Windows 8!