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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Windows 7 lifts Microsoft Leave a comment
Windows 7 1 comment
Internet Explorer 8 Leave a comment
Going beyond page loads is what Microsoft’s brand new browser, Internet Explorer 8, does (Originally posted at my previous blog address on 26 March 2009) It’s about getting things done in an faster, easier and safer manner. The idea is very novel but if one comes to think of it, that is what actually matters when you browse the [...]
