Adding / Injecting Drivers into WindowsPE
KB ID 0000218 Problem A while ago I wrote an article about adding drivers to a WindowsPE Image, this was part of an installing Symantec Ghost with WDS procedure. Recently one of my colleagues was using my instructions, and despite his best efforts could not get the procedure to work with a new PC (Intel NIC). So he decided to give it a go with the new version of the WAIK he was successfull, but the procedure is slightly different....
Windows 7 – Using the Windows Mobile Emulator
KB ID 0000241 Problem I first saw the Windows Mobile Emulator after Exchange 2003 service pack 2 came out, and we had a deluge of jobs to install “Push Email” to Windows Mobile Devices. I even used it on the Exchange 2007 course, this was when Microsoft changed the name of the service to “ActiveSync” to confuse the hell out of everyone with a mobile device, who used ActiveSync to sync the device with Windows. A...
Windows 7 – VNC Wont Work
KB ID 0000243 Problem You have VNC and have suddenly realised that its stopped working for your Windows 7 clients. It’s been a while since I’ve used VNC, but I had a client call this morning to ask what he should use. As he is one of the good guys I fired up the test bench and did some testing. Solution Use Tight VNC, at time of writing version 2.0 Beta 3 works on, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server Windows...
Windows 7 – How Do I Delete Old Networks?
KB ID 0000244 Problem If you move around a lot from client site to client site, your Windows 7 network list can get huge. Solution 1. Right click the network link on your taskbar. 2. Select “Open Network and Sharing Center”. 3. Left click your current connection. Click for larger image 4. At the bottom of the screen select “Merge or Delete network Locations”. 5. Select the unwanted ones > Delete > Close....
Windows 8 – ‘Test Mode Windows 8 build 9200’
KB ID 0000281 Problem Also seen on Server 2008. Solution 1. Click Start, in the search box type cmd > then right click the cmd icon and select “Run as administrator”. 2. At command line issue the following command, Bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING OFF 3. Then Reboot the PC. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links Original Article Written...