Category: Windows
Damaged CD/DVD – No fear ISOPUZZLE is here
Today, my daughter came and told me that she could no longer see her favorite DVD movie on the playstation. I told her I would look into it and confirmed the the DVD media was indeed scrathed. Unfortunatly i had never made a backup of that DVD, which I else do with every original movie we purchase, so that this wouldn’t occur. Well i tried to rip copy it using ashampoo free (which of coarseLearn More
Unable to active your Windows 8 Enterprise edition
If you experience trouble activating your legal version of Windows 8, then there might be a solution to your problem here. This post is created using a version of Windows 8 downloaded from MSDN repo. But I would recon that the problem could be similar if the installation media was from a different source. The problem being that you can’t activate your Windows 8 product, either because the activate button is missing or because, whenLearn More
DHCP High-availability on Windows 2012
Something that should have been available for decades ago have just with the launch of Windows Server 2012 become possible, the opportunity to set up a HA DHCP server without clustering. When you install the DHCP role on a Windows Server 2012 you get the option to make it HA, be pointing to another “node” which also contains the DHCP role. When you set it up you have the possiblility to make it Active/Active orLearn More
Locate installed patches on windows easy
If you ever come across a issue, where you need to locate, whether or not at KB articel from Microsoft is installed or not, it is as easy as entering a command prompt and type: c:\>wmic qfe | find “<number of the b articel, and only the number>” press enter c:\>wmic qfe | find “23456” Now, you could also take this a step further and do remote querying, this is done via the followingLearn More
How-to: Upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 from Standard to Enterprise without a media.
Phase 1: Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerEnterprise /ProductKey:489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y (This is the default KMS Key 3 days activation for Windows Server 2008 R2, provided by Microsoft, hopefully im allowed to publish this key here, anyways this license provides 3 days of access to register your own key.) You have to use this KMS key in order to make the upgrade work, after the upgrade your Windows will have 3 days to activate, Activating using GUI, will disable aLearn More
Numlock not active on start
Have you ever had users or self been annoyed about NumLock being disabled everytime you start up Windows? Here is the cure Open registry (Run -> regedit) Go to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard\ Right click InitialKeyBoardIndicator and change value to 2 (2 is enabled, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled after logon i think) Or download the regkey here and doubleclick it, accept the changes and reboot.
Setting up a windows server 2008 as a time reliable timeserver using NTP
Some people have been complaining about, Microsoft decided to end support for SNTP in Windows 2008R2 and also ended the opportunity to set up time using NET TIME Well hopefully this post gets you back on track, with a newer more robust solution, which is also more secure than the old methods. First of all the new tool is w32tm, and below is an example of how to setup one of your DCs (More to follow)Learn More
The letter @ isn’t working when using DK-Keyboard Layout
I have experienced that in some cases, on HP Thin clients the letter @ isn’t working, when it is typed by pressing ALT-GR + 2, however all other signs ex. $ £ { } is working normal, and you are able to type 2 and ” so keyboard errors can be excluded. Of coarse you can always try to ASCII typing it by pressing Left ALT + 64 (on the numpad) If that is the caseLearn More
Trimming up space in Windows 7 all versions
If you are the lucky owner of a SSD, you know (at least at the time of writing of this post) that they are expensive. So many people only buy 64 or 128GB versions. So it is fair to say that every GB count. However with Windows 7 (and Windows Vista, Windows server 2008 and Windows server 2008 R2) there is a new phaenomenon called WINSXS, located at c:\windows\winsxs (It’s is the Windows side by side) this folderLearn More