Apr 30, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Uninstall Windows 10 and Downgrade to Windows 7

Introduction So you have installed Windows 10 and it is just not your thing, or printers scanners or even the PC itself is not working after the upgrade. As long as you’ve upgraded within the last month, you can uninstall Windows 10 and downgrade your PC back to its original Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 operating system. Even if it’s been more than a month, you should be able to reinstall the version of... read more

Apr 10, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Display Windows Shares Using PowerShell and WMI

Introduction By using PowerShell to call WMI we can gather information on the share on a system or on  a remote system. In this post we will cover how retrieve basic nd some detailed information using PowerShell and WMI. With Windows 8.1 ans Server 2012 R2 there have been added cmdlets called Get-SmbShare which will be covered in future posts. The Commands So let’s get started on getting some... read more

Apr 3, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Mount and Access NFS Exports on Windows Server 2012 R2

Introduction Let’s face it, we support mixed environments and sometimes we need to access information on Linux systems on our Windows systems. With that said say you have a Windows server that needs to get to NFS exports on a Linux systems. Well that is completely doable on Windows Server 2012 R2 using Client for NFS. Note: You can also mount NFS if you are running Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate... read more

Mar 27, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Secure OS X 10.11 Part 1

Introdution This i the first of several posts on securing your OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” system. We will cover many different areas of which you can make your system more secure from spying eyes. It is your choice to use some of the techniques on your system. Some are for the mor hardcore or advanced users nd others are good for the normal at home users. Full Disk Encryption One of the easiest... read more

Mar 20, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Using HyperBox to Manage Your VirtualBox 5.0 Servers

Introduction So you have a few instances of VirtualBox running on a few systems and wondering if there is a central tool to manage them similar to vCenter. Well there is such a tool called Hyperbox.  According to the site. Hyperbox is a free virtualized infrastructure manager across your different hypervisors. It aims to provide a free alternative to commercial products like VMware vCenter/ESXi and Citrix... read more