Microsoft has announced that as of June 30th, 2008 Windows XP will no longer be distributed. You will still be able to buy machines that run Windows XP but it will become increasingly difficult in the months that follow. Windows XP will be supported by Microsoft until April 14th, 2014. However, only security-specific patches will be released for XP after June.
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Windows XP: certutil.exe
You just can’t pilfer parts of other OSen whenever you feel like it. If you take certutil.exe from a newer OS than XP (eg – Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008) then it’s not gonna’ work. What, you don’t believe me, check it out ya’ silly cannigut: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934576/en-us?spid=12925&sid=1569 But I’d really hoped you knew to look this kind of thing up already if you’re doing work on PKI stuff… 😉
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Microsoft Office Live
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Microsoft Office Live Workspace is a portal that allows you to view your Microsoft Office documents online. This includes the ability to share documents and do desktop presentations of Microsoft Office documents. Microsoft Office Live Workspace is in beta and free, so why not give it a try? That’s what Microsoft is asking now that Google Docs and Zoho are moving towards commoditizing the document and spreadsheet space. So first impressions? Office Live Workspace doesn’t let you edit documents. Anyone who has used Google Docs or Zoho is going to be looking for that feature. There is a nice plug-in that is free that…
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RightThumb Windows XP Image Augments in Batch
Save time. Don’t touch a lot of photos one at a time. You can resize images en masse using a variety of tools on the Mac or Windows. Most notably, Photoshop. But there are also less expensive tools, if not free ones out there. For example, RightThumb. RightThumb lets you resize images, filter images, change formats, add prefixes, etc. Nice little tool and free to boot.
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Microsoft SCCM
Yet another package-based management solution. The monolithic image is dead.
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FTK
From the FTK Website: Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) is recognized around the world as the standard in computer forensic investigation technology. This court-validated platform delivers cutting edge analysis, decryption and password cracking all within an intuitive, customizable and user-friendly interface. In addition, with FTK, you have the option of utilizing a back-end database to handle large data sets. Or you can work without one if application simplicity is your goal. Either way you will get the benefit of best-of-breed technologies that can be expanded to meet your ever-changing needs. Known for its intuitive functionality, email analysis, customizable data views and stability, FTK is the smart choice for stand-alone forensic investigations.
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Using Trash for Storage
I’m not sure why this keeps coming up, but you don’t want to use your trash (whether for Entourage, Outlook, Mac OS X or the Recycle Bin in Windows) as a place to store files, emails or anything else you’d be bummed out about loosing. Keep in mind that trash can be taken away at any given moment…
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Windows XP: Remove 15 Second Pause During Mass Deploy
After text-mode or GUI-mode Setup completes, a message states that the computer will reboot in 15 seconds. You can edit the WaitforReboot value in the[Unattended] section of your Sysprep.inf (or add the following line to the [Unattended] section: WaitForReboot=No BTW, this only workes if your UnattendedMode is set to FullUnattended
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Slow Browsing
Slow browsing issues can often be caused by poor wireless reception. Sure, a lot of poor performance should be linked to this but few are as obvious to an end user as browsing around on the web really, really slowly. If you’re finding that pages are taking awhile to load then consider checking out the signal strength and see if speeds get better the closer someone moves to a WAP (provided signal strength increases as you get closer of course).
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Windows: Kill a PID
You can use the pslist command to view a detailed listing of all ProcessIDs in Windows. You can then use pskill to kill a PID, or pssuspend to suspend it or psservice to list PIDs that are services. No killall tho, like in Mac OS X…