Yesterday I bought some RAM for my server to double it from 8GB to 16GB. RAM is dirt cheap, in fact 16GB was only $54 at the local Microcenter and I had a bad drive I needed to return for the same price. After swapping one type of memory for another I gleefully drove home […]
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Switch your hard drive to AHCI mode in Windows 7 without repair/reinstall
If you are planning on switching over to an SSD or just want to take advantage of hot-swap SATA drives in Windows 7 you will need to make some simple registry changes first. This will allow you to boot off the drive after you have switched it from IDE to AHCI.Do this BEFORE you switch […]
Read More →A northwind bak file for you
Why hasn’t anyone done this before? Here is a bak file for the northwind database taken from SQL 2012. Northwind is great for playing around with since it already has data. AdventureWorks is another. I like to have them both on test servers. Anywho, if you want a very simple method of getting northwind onto […]
Read More →How to fix server manager not responding in Windows Server 2012 on Hyper-V
After gleefully blogging about my recent forced Windows 8 experience I decided to start up a Windows Server 2012 VM. I’ve been hearing about all the new improvements and wanted to check them out first hand. The issue was the refresh of server manager, it would run fine and then suddenly become unresponsive. Since Microsoft […]
Read More →10 Things I like about Windows 8
Recently I was forced to buy a new laptop. Well forced may be a little strong, the hard drive in the Macbook died and since the DVD drive also doesn’t work and it’s 6 years old and won’t even run 10.7 (Lion) or above I decided it was time to for a new one. But […]
Read More →How to fix DefaultBrowser_NOPUBLISHERID with Chrome in Windows 8
Activation of app DefaultBrowser_NOPUBLISHERID!Chrome failed with error: Access is denied. Did you just install Chrome, joyfully browse with it, and allow it to be your default browser only to find now it won’t open? Me too! Chrome does not have a feature to allow it to open all links and Windows 8 has two types […]
Read More →Image a MacBook hard drive on Windows and recover data
My aging 6 year old Macbook finally bit the dust, sort of. I bought a larger refurbished hard drive for it to keep it going but it turns out they didn’t refurbish it as well as I hoped. I found this out while trying to back it up. The MacBook kept locking up either because […]
Read More →My first powershell script – move and delete SQL backup files
Remember my first Sony? I had a walkman and it was the first electronic device I took apart and put back together when I was around 11 years old. After that it was held together by some masking tape but I managed to at least get it back together and it could still play tapes. […]
Read More →Reclaim disk space from volume shadow copy service (VSS)
Recently I decided to try and get the defrgmentation on all my drives to 0% on my virtual host and server. For some reason I could not get the OS drive and a backup drive down to 0%. The OS was at 27% fragmented and the backup at 35%. After attempting my third defrag I […]
Read More →Authentication issues with SCVMM
During some more playing around on my server I decided to install some remote desktop services that subsequently hosed my VM host. After fixing the issues so I could at least get into my VM’s, I?then?started running into auth issues in SCVMM (system center virtual machine manager). The first problem was a constant requirement for […]
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