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ToolTip: Bits GUI Admin

In an earlier post [Using BITS for file downloads](Using BITS for file downloads) I wrote about how to use BITS for file transfers. Today I had a BITS...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Identifying KMS Servers

Assume you are at a client site and plan to deploy a Windows Server (2008 / 2008-R2) or Windows Clients (Windows Vista / Windows 7) and want to check ...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Windows 7 Master Control Panel aka God mode

Since yesterday there have been a lot of tweets and e-mails about the so-called Windows 7 God Mode, which in fact was available in Vista already. In s...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 4, 2010

ToolTip: Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7

Microsoft has spend a great effort on optimizing the [power consumption](http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/01/06/windows-7-energy-efficiency.aspx)...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, January 2, 2010

ToolTip: No sleep for Windows

Assume that for whatever reason occasionally you do not want your system to enter the sleep mode, but you also do not want to change your power plan ?...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, January 2, 2010

ToolTip: Windows Services Dependency Viewer

During my periodic visit on CodePlex I came across the Windows Services Dependency Viewer utility. The tool provides access to the following informati...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, January 1, 2010