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What's running inside svchost.exe

When you open the Windows Task Manager and select the Processes tab and then select the "show processes from all users" button, you will find many ins...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Hyper-V and Dynamic discs

First let me avoid confusion here, I'm not talking about "dynamically expanding" discs but about the disc type e.g. [Basic and Dynamic](http://www.pet...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Scripting Windows Explorer Details View

Those of you who are familiar with desktop engineering know the pain of scripting Windows configuration settings. While in general many settings can b...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Windows BCD Store

Before Windows Vista Boot Configuration Information was stored within the boot.inifile. With the introduction of Windows Vista Microsoft has completel...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, January 4, 2009

Booting Win7 from a VHD file

Windows7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will support booting directly from a [VHD](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738373.aspx) (Virtual hard disk) f...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, January 3, 2009

Outlook add-in for Office Communicator

Those of you who work with Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 might be interested in this one. On the [MSDN code Gallery](http://code...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, December 31, 2008