Category Archives: Windows Vista

My windows 7 install is better than yours. Part Deux

Posted on March 14, 2011 by mike

So instead of an update I though I would write some more fun with the WEI (Windows Experience Index). However not about its flaws but about a cool little way to compete with your neighbor.  

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Disable Administrative Shares

Posted on March 2, 2011 by mike

Windows ONLY! The Windows system automatically creates hidden “administrative shares” for its logical drives C:, D:, and so forth which it names C$, D$ and so forth. It also creates the admin$ hidden share for to the \winnt or windows … Continue reading →

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Trace issues and such with Windows Performance Tester.

Posted on March 1, 2011 by mike

Yes we all have had issues with boot times. In fact there is an entire community of nerds trying to tweak their systems to be the fastest bootable machine. From Mac Nerds saying that OSX loads faster and cleaner to … Continue reading →

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