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Remote Desktop Command Line Disconnect

Do you ever remote into many RDP sessions at a time? Have you ever played that really fun little game where you try to 'catch' the one drop down RDP pin menu that you want to close without closing down the entire session? You'll know what I'm talking about if you remote in a machine,...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 11-26-2008
Install Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Licensing Role Service

My Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services machine has just used up its 120 day licensing grace period. I setup the TS server to publish a few remote apps (Firefox and VLC mainly), just to stay current with the latest technologies available through my MSDN subscription. But over the last 4 months I've...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-24-2008
Free Up Disk Space in Windows Vista

Scott Hanselman has written a fantastic article about clearing the clutter on your disks . It's amazing how fast hard drives fill up nowadays, especially considering how big they are. The screenshot here is my primary disk on my main machine. I realized that 74GB was pretty small from the start ...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-21-2008
Lenovo Thinkpad T61p "Logmon.exe stopped working"

I don't reboot my machine often, but lately when I do I get the following error when Windows loads. So I'm not quite sure how long it's been happening, or what the specific cause was, but I've found that installing all of the the Lenovo System Updates will solve the problem . I had to...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-12-2008
Improve Operating System Performance With a Swap Partition

A friend just filled me in on a performance tip I've never tried before, but it makes sense and I bet it works. This is a general performance tip that would apply to Vista, XP, Ubuntu, and all other operating systems out there. When installing a new operating system, create a small swap partition...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-03-2008
Hyper-V VM Backup Script Batch File

This will shutdown your virtual machines, copy the .vhd virtual hard disk files (not snapshots) to a backup location, and then power your virtual machines back on. Please view the ReadMe file or the following blog post for detailed instructions: http://bunkerhollow.com/blogs/matt/archive/2008/09/24/hyper...

Posted to Software (FileGallery) by Matt Williamson on 09-24-2008
Hyper-V VM Backup Script Batch File

This will shutdown your virtual machines, copy the .vhd virtual hard disk files (not snapshots) to a backup location, and then power your virtual machines back on. Install the Windows PowerShell Feature You may need to install Windows PowerShell on your Hyper-V host machine, Server Manager -> Add...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 09-24-2008
IIS 6 FTP Site with Isolated Local Users and Shared Folders

I needed an FTP site that would allow different users access to their own private folders, as well as a common shared folder that they would all have access to. Setup Your Users Add a local user to your FTP server for each person you want to have access to the site. It's possible to use Active Directory...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 09-23-2008
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - Who Knew?

I've been running Vista for about a year and Server 2008 for a little less. During this time I've opened a couple of ports on each to let some traffic through. I've done this the only way I knew how... through the Windows Security -> Windows Firewall settings in the Control Panel. Well...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 09-17-2008
My Favorite Windows Shortcuts

After writing the previous post and thinking about what a pain the Windows key can be when it becomes stuck, I decided I'd do it some justice and write up a quick post about all the Windows shortcuts I find very helpful and use on a regular basis. WIN + E Windows Explorer WIN + R Run... WIN + L Lock...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 08-15-2008

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