Thursday, June 4, 2009

Windows 7 will be available in...

The official Windows blog gives the GA (General Availability) date for Windows 7, this OS will be come the successor of Vista.

And the date for it is:

October 22nd.


The most interesting features for this OS is the Virtualization tool with fetures similar to Citrix, when the applications of Virtual machines could be executed as Windows in Real Machine Desktop

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bing.com is live...

Bing the new search engine of Microsoft is now live... and really it will become the substitute of live search...

At the moment the results are very fast and the information more useful, a little more organize that google.

Some nice features are:

  • History of search in left panel

  • History image in left panel for image search

  • The background image will change every day

  • It will be define version for USA and beta for rest of world


Microsoft Search Engine

Friday, March 13, 2009

How generate a full user-mode dump file in Windows 2008

Dr. Watson is not included in Windows 2008. Dr. Watson was the default debugger in older Windows operating systems. The replacement for Dr. Watson is Problem Reports and Solutions.

One alternative is Debugging Tools for Windows, it has support for Windows x86 and x64 versions (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx)

The steps to registry the tool in Windows x86 are:

1) Install the Debugging Tools for Windows your machine, usually is installed in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows, and you can select other location such as C:\debuggers
2) Open the Registry Editor, from run program using regedit command
3) Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
4) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5) Type Debugger, and then press ENTER.
6) Right-click Debugger, and then click Modify.
7) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type C:\debuggers\ntsd -p %ld -c ".dump /f /u c:\tmp\mydump.dmp;q", and then click OK.
8 ) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
9) Type Auto, and then press ENTER.
10) Right-click Auto, and then click Modify.
11) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type 1, and then click OK.
12) Exit Registry Editor.

Registring Debugging Tools for Windows x86

The steps to registry the tool in Windows x64 are:

1) Install the Debugging Tools for Windows your machine, usually is installed in C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows, and you can select other location such as C:\debuggers
2) Open the Registry Editor, from run program using regedit command
3) Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug
4) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5) Type Debugger, and then press ENTER.
6) Right-click Debugger, and then click Modify.
7) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type C:\debuggers\ntsd -p %ld -c ".dump /f /u c:\tmp\mydump.dmp;q", and then click OK.
8 ) On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
9) Type Auto, and then press ENTER.
10) Right-click Auto, and then click Modify.
11) In the Edit String Value dialog box, type 1, and then click OK.
12) Exit Registry Editor.

Registring Debugging tools for Windows in x64 machine

Sunday, October 19, 2008

How to re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows 2008 or Vista

The Hibernation option is enabled by default the Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed.

It can be re-enabled using following steps:

1) Run as Administrator the command line program, from start search box menu type cmd and in result right click in Command Promt and click Run as Administrator
2) Type powercfg /hibernate on
3) Press Enter
4) The Hibernation will be on

Also you can review other details in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730/

How to disable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows 2008 or Vista

The Hibernation option is enabled by default the Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed.

It can be disabled using following steps:

1) Run as Administrator the command line program, from start search box menu type cmd and in result right click in Command Promt and click Run as Administrator
2) Type powercfg /hibernate off
3) Press Enter
4) The Hibernation will be off

Also you can review other details in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730/

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Error message when you try to set an IP address on a network adapter

Some times when you change your network card, the last IP configuration is not clean, and when you trying to set the new IP address, you receive and error similar to:



The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter….



You try following steps to remove all IP configuration:



1) Open the command line, type in run programs cmd, and press Enter


2) Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and press Enter


3) Type devmgmgt.msc, and press Enter


4) Select View > Show Hidden Devices menu


5) Go to tree view and expand network adapters


6) Select the all network adapter


7) Right Click and select Uninstall



Next time, you do not have any problem to configure your IP address



Also you can review other details in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269155

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Multiple connections to server or shared resource error

Sometimes when you try to access any shared resource you obtain an error similar to:

\\10.x.x.x\Shared is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource...

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed...


Multiple connections to a server

How to fix this error?

Open the command line from run program using cmd

Run following command: net use * /delete, it will deleted all open shared connections

Try newly to access your shared resource

How to delete an specific shared resource

Open the command line from run program using cmd

List all reousrces using following command: net use

delete an specific shared resource with following command: net use \\10.x.x.x\shared /delete

Try newly to access your shared resource