Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson

Windows 7

There are 7 entries for the tag Windows 7.

Before you install Windows 7 Service Pack 1...

Published March 11, 2011 at 5:00 AM

...make darn sure you have already installed the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 (if you want to use them, of course). Otherwise, like me, you'll likely resort to nuking your desktop and starting over. Earlier this week, I posted...

Windows 7 SP1/SSD Rebuild (and MaxPatchCacheSize = 0)

Published March 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM

I spent a few hours last night (and another hour this morning) rebuilding my Windows 7 desktop that I use as my primary workstation (WOLVERINE). In case you haven't heard, Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 was released a few weeks...

What's in your Jump List?

Published March 5, 2011 at 4:05 AM

Nearly three years ago, I wrote a post that described the BackedUp and NotBackedUp folders I use on almost every computer I ever log on to (my laptop, desktop, a handful of servers, and more than a dozen VMs). I also showed how I created taskbar shortcuts...

Script to Clear (and Save) Event Logs

Published March 1, 2011 at 5:37 AM

As I was writing my first post earlier this morning , I wondered if I had previously shared the script I use to quickly clear the event logs on a server (but saving them first -- just in case I need to go back and retrieve something from the "archive...

Soluto and Antivir Solution Pro Virus

Published August 1, 2010 at 6:26 AM

In one of the sessions I attended last week at TechReady (an internal training conference at Microsoft), the speaker mentioned a new piece of "anti-frustration software" called Soluto which analyzes the boot time of your PC. It certainly sounded intriguing and I made a note to take a look at it when I got back home from Seattle. This morning I installed Soluto on my Windows 7 x64 desktop at home. Everything seemed great...at first....