Tag Archives: Windows 7

Disable Thumbnail Previews

Posted on July 30, 2015 by admin

Okay, this is just a short post based on a question I’ve gotten four times today. Users complains that it takes to long to open a folder containing pictures, in this case the folder contained a few hundred pictures, so … Continue reading →

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ConfigMgr 2012 R2 client causes “Program Compability Assistant” to appear on Windows 7 x86 SP1

Posted on March 7, 2014 by admin

Before we begin this post, I can say that this has been reported to Microsoft and they have acknowledged it as a bug. When speaking to them, they said there will be a fix released in the near future, either … Continue reading →

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Exclude local group membership in USMT 4

Posted on September 30, 2013 by admin

After struggling with an odd problem with USMT, I’ve finally found a solution that works. When running USMT, scanstate.exe to be more precise, on the old client, it automatically saves the users local group membership. In this case, many users … Continue reading →

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Install applications and updates fail with error 0x80070005, ConfigMgr 2012

Posted on July 18, 2013 by admin

After seeing this error code in my smsts.log during the step “Install Software Updates” during OSD for no apparent reason, I searched the web for a solution with almost no result. All I could find were suggestions to reinstall the … Continue reading →

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Enable/Disable Windows 7 games

Posted on November 27, 2012 by admin

A couple of day’s ago, a friend asked why Microsoft had removed all classic games from Windows 7. It turned out that he was running Windows 7 Professional, one of the editions where the games are not installed by default.

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How to dual boot windows 7 and windows 8

Posted on October 26, 2012 by admin

If you want to test Windows 8, but don’t want to lose your current OS installation, why not install Windows 8 together with your current OS?

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Enable telnet in Windows 7

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

It’s not often that you use telnet, but sometimes it’s an easy way to see if you can connect to a computer. In Windows 7 (and Vista), telnet is disabled as default due to the security risks, but here is … Continue reading →

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Install Windows 7 and 8 from USB

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

When it comes to installing an operating system, OS, on a computer, there are two possible solutions for home users. The first one is by purchasing a DVD with the OS and installing it from this, but since the birth … Continue reading →

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