Installing RamDisk in Windows 7 to perform external media speed tests
Ramdisk
RamDisk as a virtual hard drive that uses part of your RAM. To the Operating System and applications it appears as a normal physical hard drive. These drives are very fast, much faster than any mechanical or SSD hard drives. Unfortunately they have very limited use because of two reasons:- RAM is much more expensive than any hard drive, even an SSD
- All data stored on a RAM drive is lost if computer is shut down or loses power
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Deploying Sophos Clients via Sophos Control Center fail on Windows 7 machines
Sophos Control Centre can deploy Sophos antivirus software to your client computers remotely.
In my experience installation on Windows XP never caused any issues and machines were ready out of the box. On Windows 7, however, installation was failing with folowing error:
0000002e The installation did not start. The computer may have been shut down, renamed or disconnected, or a required service may not be running. It may be running Windows XP Home or Windows Vista
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Run cmd.exe process as System Account in Windows 7
- Download PsExec (this is part of Sysinternals PsTools)
- Start command prompt (cmd) as Administrator
- Navigate to location of downloaded and extracted PsExec.exe
- Run: PsExec.exe -i -s cmd.exe
-i - Run the program interactively
-s - Run in the System account
cmd.exe - Application to start
This will open another command prompt window which will run under Local System account. You can use the same method to start any other application in the System Account.
This works in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Another method which works only in Windows XP is described here.
Unable to kill Outlook.exe process in Windows 7
Recently upgraded some machines from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7 SP1 (fresh install). Couple of users started experiencing serious issues with their Outlook 2010. Soon after starting Outlook would hang and then crash. Outlook.exe process, however, would stay in the task manager and nothing would kill it. New Outlook instance would refuse to start as well. Following methods were tried to kill the hung outlook.exe (we are logon on as Administrator):
- Windows Task Manager
- Sysinternals Process Explorer
- taskkill
- taskkill via psexec under Local System account
- pskill
taskkill was giving error:
ERROR: The process with PID <xxx> could not be terminated.
Reason: There is no running instance of the task.
All other methods would give Access Denied error.
- Google Earth Street View missing in version 5.2
- Auto Login in Poderosa Terminal Emulator
- This copy of windows must be activated before you can log on
- Print spooling takes very long time
- Skype not responding on shutdown
- Wait in a batch file
- Change TCP / IP settings using command prompt or .bat script
- Run multiple Skype accounts at the same time
- Microsoft Word 2010 prints wrong pages or doesn't print at all
- Insert Blank Page in PDF File with Nitro PDF