It has been a long time since I last looked at software to improve boot speeds (“Windows Startup Tuning” from December ‘08). A new option recently crossed my radar though and it has some interesting wrinkles. For starters, Soluto is probably the prettiest little startup manager you’ve ever used for … Continue reading
Continued from Fun with ESXi and HP issues. Learning Lessons. To recap, I had two new drives and a backplane en route and really wanted to get complete image backups of the VM clients running on this VMware ESXi server before I started swapping drives. I’d tried the vSphere built-in … Continue reading
A few months ago I wrote about “The Easy Way to Update ProLiant Firmware” as I had just discovered HP‘s all-in-one firmware updater CD. Great stuff and if you haven’t found that yet, be sure to check that article. There’s a wrinkle with that CD though: It isn’t always the … Continue reading
Back in the olden days I used to use the Sysinternals tools Filemon and Regmon when diagnosing system issues. Those were replaced years ago by another Sysinternals tool: Process Monitor. Process Monitor does it all. You can watch file, registry, processes – you name it. It shows what succeeds, what … Continue reading
Here is a slick little tip I learned from my buddy Dan over at machineLOGIC today. I just had to share… I’ve been using the built-in Microsoft VPN client for years – through 5 or 6 iterations of Windows in fact. Dead simple to set up, easy to use and … Continue reading
