One issue when cutting over services or performing datacentre disaster recovery operations consists of three little letters – DNS.
DNS records have a time to live (TTL) and depending on the zone file configuration, it could be several hours or …
In current versions of Windows the venerable snipping tool (snippingtool.exe) has been updated with improved functionality.
This is the Snipping Tool from a Windows 7 lab machine:
Clicking on Options we see:
Since many certificate operations involve knowing the certificate's thumbprint, it is always useful to to have an easy way to get this information. In some of the online documentation it mentions you can copy the thumbprint out of the Certificate …
This tip is for all the folks out there who want a quick and easy way to open an additional instance of an application which they are running or to elevate an application.
The below tips were captured from a …
This is one of those little things that make life much, much easier. Imagine the scenario; you go to eject a USB disk drive or USB flash and Windows tells you that it is still in use. How to track …
New? Well some options are not that new really. Others are however!
Sometimes it is the little things in life that can help immensely. Take our venerable friend, netstat! Even though it has been around for many moons folks …
Things were running great with my new machine a Lenovo W541 until recently. When browsing email in Outlook it would take several seconds to collapse/expand folders and when selecting an email to read it took several seconds to render the …
One of my colleagues emailed with an issue on their laptop. After travelling to the customer location, his power supply had "died" as it was not charging the machine. This was a Lenovo W541 with the new rectangular power connector, …