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Observations for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Error 0x800f0a12

During the past days I have been manually updating a few Windows 7 clients and on two of them I received the error **0x800fa12**. [ ![2011-02-24 11h26...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, February 24, 2011

Microsoft Open Specifications Documentation for Group Policy

If you want to learn more about Group Policies then I suggest that you download and read the following documents: MS-GPSOD]: Group Policy System Overv...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, February 20, 2011

Removing Backup Files Created during Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Installation

For the Windows Vista Service Packs there was [vsp1cln.exe](https://www.verboon.info/index.php/2008/11/vista-sp1-cleanup-tool-vsp1clnexe/) (SP1) and [...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, February 19, 2011

Exporting Windows Driver Store Information into Excel

To obtain detailed information about a particular driver that is prestaged within the Windows 7 driver store, you can run the following command. `Dism...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Managing Wireless Configuration with NETSH

Today when I was using the netsh command to configure some firewall settings, I noticed that it also has options for WLAN. (Yes you never stop learnin...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Retrieve Group Policy size in SYSVOL folder with PowerShell

Needless to say that there are quite some benefits in using a central store for Group Policies, one of them is that you can prevent the so-called SYSV...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 24, 2011