The annoyance of none elevated command prompts.

You know how when ever you run something from a prompt in Windows 7 or Server2008 you need to remember to elevate the privileges, or you will get the annoying message that you do not have administrative privileges, which then means you will have to open a new prompt, run it as administrator,  and do [...]

Install XP MUI from SCCM Task Sequence.

 

Create a new package called Microsoft XP MUI   Note: It is not necessary to create a program for the package unless you intend to advertise the package to clients.

The Microsoft XP MUI [...]

Changing boot order in Vista/Windows 7

If you do not want to play around with BCDedit or 3rd party tools like EasyBCD, it is quit easy to change boot order from within Windows 7.
I Know that this is kind of low tech, but I notice a lot of  questions out there regarding, how to change the boot order using BCDedit.
Here goes:

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Resizing a Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)

Ever run into problems with a VHD that ran out of space?? I did just yesterday, and found a couple of solutions for that problem. Here are two ways of dealing VHD size issues .
Methode 1:
Using 3rd part tool “VDH Resizer”

Download and install VHD Resizer. [...]

Enable Integration features for Virtual PC Beta running server 2008

Running on Windows 7 it obvious you would use the new Windows Virtual PC Beta.
There is a problem however, when you want to run a Server2008 virtual PC. The server it self runs great, and is much faster than Virtual PC2007, but like in Virtual server2005 Drag’n Drop is not supported.
This Should basically [...]

Try out Windows 7 without messing up your XP/VISTA installation

I just love Windows 7 RC… It runs much better than VISTA, and has lots of super nice features.  (Get it here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ )
One of these features is the ability to boot from a VHD, which actually means that I can run Win7 on my laptop, without having to reinstall my existing OS, mess around [...]

Auto run action when a new user loges on / add setting to HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Ever wanted to set a registry key to automate some stuff for your users, only to find out that the key resides in HKEY_CURRENT_USER making it quit difficult to have it work for all users on the pc. You can of cause set this in your login script, but setting registry fixes is not really [...]

Disable the Windows Media Player wizard on first run

Ever get annoyed that your users have to run trough the media Player 11 wizard, the first time they launch the program. Well I do, and in general my customers do to..
The fix however is quit simple. All you have to do is set the AcceptedPrivacyStatement key to 1 in the registry, under HKEY_CURRENT_USER
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Deploying Windows 7 with Configuration Manager 2007

Interested? Then make sure your tune into this webcast https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032412442&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US&flag=1
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time.

Coretech Auto Install Warning – Freeware

When we are deploying application to the user’s computers, we sometimes want to warn them about what is happening.
This is to prevent any complains about etc. “My Computer is slow”, “Do i have Virus?” or similar complains that might occur when the computer slows down while installing.
Therefore i have created this small utility. It can [...]