May 5, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Enable F8 Boot Options to Windows 8

With the arrival of Windows 8  a new boot loader that decreases the time that it takes Windows 8 to start. In order to do this Microsoft needed to remove the ability to access the Advanced Boot Options screen when you press the F8 key when Windows starts. Instead in order to access Safe Mode, you would need to either start Windows 8 and then tell it to restart into safe mode or for Windows to fail to... read more

Apr 30, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Handle Windows XP Lockups after EOS

Recently I have had several systems come to me that are running Windows XP and have started to lockup shortly after the April 8, 2014 end of service. The customer was complaining about the popups they received at login about end of life. Upon digging into the systems found that Microsoft Security Essentials was causing the system to lockup, even though according to Microsoft the product is supported on... read more

Mar 27, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Span Volumes on Windows 2008 R2 Using Dynamic Disks

This how to explains how span volumes using SAN attached drives on Windows 2008 R2. When using SAN drives and you want to extend the space you can span the volume, but this is only available to Dynamic Disk’s. If the disk is basic, you need to convert it to dynamic. Open Disk Management and right click on the new drive and select Convert to Dynamic Disk.   The disk you need to convert will be... read more

Mar 10, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Remove syskey Windows 7 bootup password

Recently had a client who accepted one of the calls from “Windows Microsoft” and allowed them to access their computer. They gave them access to their computer and cancelled the support shortly afterwards.  During the process they installed a startup password which begins prior to the windows login screen. Luckily they were given the password to access their system but wanted the password... read more

Feb 27, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Add Drivers and Re-Create A Windows 2008 R2 Installation DVD

You know how it goes, nothing is simple when it comes to building servers, especially with Windows and drivers.  Recently I was tasked with building servers 300 miles away through the iLo and could not get HP Intelligent Provisioning to work so I resulted to mounting the iso image on the iLo itself and set to boot. This worked to start the installation but there was no drivers and stopped it dead in... read more