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A Security Baseline Resource for Windows 7–Internet Explorer and Windows 7 Firewall

If you are looking for some ideas how to secure your Windows 7 clients, have a look at the [USGCB](http://usgcb.nist.gov/) (The United States Governme...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 31, 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

Wakeup Your Computer And Do Something

Assume you need to start a file transfer, a download or just execute a batch file once or on a regular basis in the middle of the night. What would yo...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, January 20, 2011

BITSAdmin is deprecated in Windows 7 and 2008 R2

Just recently when I created a [script](https://www.verboon.info/index.php/2011/01/automated-microsoft-security-essentials-installation/) using BITSAd...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Restricting the use of Windows Virtual PC

Windows Virtual PC is a great feature of Windows 7, but unfortunately Microsoft did not consider to provide any Group Policy settings to control the u...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, January 16, 2011

ToolTip: Soluto–Improve your Windows Boot Performance

Hey here’s another cool application that can help improving Windows startup boot times. The Application is called Soluto and can be downloaded from [h...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, January 16, 2011