How to selectively delete roaming profiles on remote machines
If you are a Windows Systems Administrator working in a Windows Active Directory environment and use roaming profiles, this article is for you. In this article we will show you how to delete roaming profiles on remote machines selectively (meaning only roaming profiles you choose and not the others). Microsoft has a free resource kit utility called delprof, which allows to delete cached roaming profiles on remote machines, it even lets you choose the deletion criteria based on the period since the roaming profile has not been used on that machine. However, delprof has a serious limitation, it does not let you choose an individual roaming profile or a list of roaming profile to be deleted. We will show you how to overcome this limitation.
What is the difference between IDE and AHCI
Recently we got some new machines at work which were very not too different in their hardware configuration from what we already have. The only difference was a setting in the BIOS about SATA emulation being set to either AHCI or IDE (the default was AHCI). It turned out that our computer image blue screened on the new machines unless we changed the BIOS setting to IDE emulation for SATA. The fix was quick and easy, but this did bring up the question What is the difference between IDE and AHCI emulations on a SATA drive and if there was an advantage or disadvantage of choosing one over the other.
How to create network diagrams online for free
In this article we will show you how to create free network diagrams online without using any custom software. You can use this tool to create other diagrams such as Org Charts, Sitemaps, Flowcharts etc. This tool is no replacement for complex Network Diagram software such as Microsoft Visio or Dia, but it will get you by in a jiffy. It is very easy and online, available to you for free from any machine and from anywhere on the internet. Once you get used to it, you can create complex drawings very easily. The tool even has an Export feature which will let you export your network diagrams and other drawings to other formats such as .png or .jpg. So lets get started!
How to recover deleted files and photos on your hard drive and cameras
How many times has it happened that you have deleted a file from your computer and repented after you deleted it from the recycling bin ? In our tutorial about data recovery today, we will show you how you can recover data from your hard drive, camera, Flash Drive, Zip drive, USB drives, SD Card, iphone or itouch using a free software. This software Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.) and it has a very simple and easy to use point and click interface. It supports Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems and recovers all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything. Best of all, it can be run just from a USB stick!
How to install and configure the free Microsoft Security Essentials Anti Virus and Anti Spyware software
One of the most important pieces of software that needs to go on your computer is your anti virus and anti spyware software. There are a lot to choose from, each claiming superiority over the other. In this article we will walk you through on installing the free anti virus and anti spyware from Microsoft called Microsoft Security Essentials. This is a one stop PC protection against spyware and viruses and have gotten the best reviews recently and is very user friendly and very small on computer resources such as RAM and CPU consumption. Lets get started!