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Windows 8 Active Directory based volume activation

Windows Server 8 comes with a new role called Volume Activation Services. The Volume Activation Service allows IT administrators to enable volume acti...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, November 25, 2011

Performing a Windows Performance Assessment with the Windows ADK

By now most of you have probably looked at the Windows 8 client or server preview build and unfortunately the most attention is given to the new Metro...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, November 24, 2011

Windows 8 Support for eDrives

I have just installed the Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment Kit and came across some information about Windows 8 support for eDrive also known as th...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Update for Google Toolbar available (fixes issues with Internet Explorer 8 and 9

If you’re using the Google Toolbar and Internet Explorer 8/9 you might have experienced bad browser performance (I did). There is an update from Googl...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, November 19, 2011

New Defrag options in Windows 8

Looks like Windows 8 introduces some additional DEFRAG options. **Option** **Description** **Option Available** **Windows 7** **Windows 8** /A Perform...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, November 13, 2011

Windows 7 – MFU (Most Frequent Used Programs)

This week I found an interesting tool called UserAssist.exe written by Didier Stevens. The UserAssist tool lists the UserAssist registry keys stored u...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, October 21, 2011