Personal IT Experiences

Networking isn’t always as easy as it should be: Ever tried to let a colleague connect to an HTTP or SSH server running on your Mac when you’re in your home network behind your NAT router? Or to work together on a document in SubEthaEdit? Or get good download rates in your favorite BitTorrent client?
Without […]

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A nice outline of best practices for installing Citrix in a VMWare environment. Test and dev labs.
Virtrix - Virtual Tricks: VMware: Best practices for deploying Citrix on ESX

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Comprehensive matrix indicating the date that each product will no longer be generally available for purchase and the end of life date for product support.
Citrix » Citrix Product Matrix Table

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Free (released under the GNU General Public License) disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from […]

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Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, NTFS files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. Free utility software that does not have to be “installed” before using.
Undelete Plus. Free file recovery software. […]

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Windows NetMeeting is already installed but hidden on your Windows XP computer.

From the -> Start button, select -> Run…
In the run field, type -> CONF and press -> OK.

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If you’re creating and troubleshooting the effects of group policies (GPO) on your computer, there is a command line utility you can download and install called GPTime.exe. It’s one simple executable that I unzipped and copied into the same folder as the Win2k3 Resource Kit tools. The resource kit folder is already included in the […]

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In Windows XP or Windows 2003, open an entire command window and type -> GPUpdate <enter>. All of the current policy settings affecting your computer (or server) and your account are displayed.
You can also see a history of the application of group policies by inspecting the registry.
To inspect the group policies applied to your local […]

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To get a complete memory dump from computers that have 4 GB RAM or more, it is still necessary to use the /MAXMEM switch in the Boot.ini file. One of the page files on the system partition must still be 1 MB larger than the amount of RAM installed in the computer to successfully create […]

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Using roaming profiles in your Windows terminal server environment? This is a Microsoft utility you can’t forget to install and schedule to use regularly.
Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

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