Who ate my disk ????????????????????????????? It’s that folder which resides in C:\Windows and takes up a lot of space on your Windows Server 2008 machine and which didn’t used to do that in Windows Server 2003. What does it contain?, can we delete it?, can we move it to a different drive?, can we delete [...]
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WINSXS 1 comment
Watson 2 comments
From Science Fiction to Reality The other day, I was looking at a VB Script, which needed to be modified just a bit in order to be useful for me. Being a scripting illiterate, I was overwhelmed by the complexity of the coding, I couldn’t understand anything that was in the script, forget about successfully [...]
How Kerberos Works 1 comment
What happens at the windows logon screen between the time you press enter after entering your credentials and ‘Loading Your Personal Settings’ message appears It hardly takes a second for your password to be accepted at the logon screen but what goes on behind the scenes to log you in on to your workstation in [...]
IT in Retail Leave a comment
How it’s different from other Sectors It’s been two month’s since my last blog, in these two months, I celebrated my birthday, got hospitalized for the first time in my life and also switched my job (quite an eventful period, huh?). Now, I work for the BIG BLUE – IBM. Obviously, It’s one of the [...]
The “SERVER” and “WORKSTATION” services Leave a comment
Hiding Folders with Access Based Enumeration (ABE) Leave a comment
Windows 7 Supports RAID1 2 comments
Notebook Entry: Leftover of Conficker/Downadup/Kido Worm 1 comment
Another Leftover Story Talking about virus leftovers – I recently noticed a leftover of the Conficker worm which is used by the virus to reinfect the systems, they are scheduled tasks on windows systems. I have only noticed them on Server OSs, they are named like ‘At’ and then any random numbers, usually starting with [...]
