This free software named FolderSize does a great job with simple interface. And the best part is it’s available as portable software, so you can carry it in your USB disk. FolderSize is intended to be a simple application to determine what folders takes up place on your machine and to present it to you … Continue reading Find what is filling up the hard disk space? →

While ago I blogged about Windows 7: Turn your Laptop as Wireless Router (Wi-Fi Hotspot) using netsh commands. Now I found there is a free software named Connectify does it for you in few easy clicks. This is what the developer has to say about the software: Connectify is an easy to use software router … Continue reading Windows 7: Make your Windows 7 laptop as hotspot with a free program (Connectify) →

ClearLock provides a convenient way to lock your desktop with a transparent layer, allowing you to see what's happening on your desktop and at the same time prevent access to the computer without the proper password. ClearLock comes as standalone executable, just run it, set your password and click the ClearLock icon whenever you want … Continue reading ClearLock: Lock your desktop and still see what’s going on your desktop →

Have you seen this? Isn’t annoying? Let’s disable these popups altogether. Open Registry Editor (click Start Orb, type RegEdit and press Enter) Go to this location: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced Create a new key. Right click on Advanced and click New and select DWORD (32-bit) Value. Type the key name as EnableBalloonTips Double click to open "EnableBaloonTips key … Continue reading Windows 7: Disable All Balloon Notifications →

You would think what kind of stupid question is that? But If I ask you how to search file contents in Windows 7, it will take some time figure out. It was very easy in Windows XP (just use classic search tool). Windows Explorer has a search box, but by default it only search file … Continue reading Windows 7: How to search file contents? →

I found this single command line gets the members of a group with their display name and user name. dsquery group -name "My AD Group Name" | dsget group -members | dsget user -display –samid Check  DSGet User /? to get more information about the users. Check  DSGet Group /? to get more information about … Continue reading Get Active Directory Group member list →

I had to delete 8 millions files and folders. Opening up Windows Explorer and hitting delete key would take days to delete the whole directory structure. Killer of this deletion is ENUMERATION. That’s right, it takes forever to enumerate directory structure and file. I came up with Power Shell command that can delete the whole … Continue reading How to delete huge directory with millions of files? →

I had a battle with a Windows Server 2008 machine. It’s TCP/IP default gateway disappears upon reboot. I tried to retype the default gateway and reboot many times. It seemed like a strange issue. I found this forum discussion here. Essence of the discussion is TCP/IP stack or file might be corrupted and the solution … Continue reading Windows Server 2008: Default Gateway disappears upon Reboot, every time →

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This is really bad! Microsoft SCOM dev team. I mean really really bad. After I installed the SCOM product and we started using it. My boss have high hopes on this product. Here is what happened. I created new Performance collection rules for specific counters on our few servers. After few days I can right … Continue reading SCOM: The crazy “MomUIGeneratedRule” with crazy numbers in reports, What’s up Microsoft SCOM Dev team? →