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Connecting to a network disk remembering credentials in Windows XP Home

18/08 09:39

Posted by r0s in Herramientas / Tools, Windows | 1 Comment

I got tired of entering the password of the account I use to connect to a shared device (a folder) from Windows XP Home Edition (this version does not have enabled the “remember credentials” button in the connect to network drives window).
So I decided to search a way to get rid of that, and its pretty easy:

Net use L: "\\COMPUTER\Shared Folder" /user:USER PASSWORD

You only need to create a .bat file (a text file but changing the extension to .bat) with that linea (adapted to your case) and add it to the Start-on-boot stuff of the PC.

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Remove blue background of Windows icons

03/08 09:17

Posted by r0s in Windows | 1 Comment

Today at the job I’ve found a computer that had all the icons “like selected” with the blue background in the text.

To get rid of this effect I found the next solution (after many that didn’t work):

1. Right click on the Desktop
2. Properties
3. Desktop Tab
4. Personalize Desktop Tab
5. Web Tab
6. Unselect anything you don’t use

This was found out via nocturnar forums (spa).

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Sorry, but this post is not available in English

19/07 11:54

Posted by r0s in Miscelánea / Misc, Windows | No Comments

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How to change the MTU over Windows Vista/7

02/07 14:53

Posted by r0s in Windows | 2 Comments

To do this we’ll need to open a terminal, to do this I recommend to hit WindowsKey+R and write cmd and hit intro.

After this trivial step we’ll need to see our interfaces and their MTU:
netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces

To know the max size we can assign to our MTU we can try with:
ping www.REFERENCEWEB.com -f -l SIZE

And finally to set the MTU that we need we can execute:
netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "YOUR INTERFACE NAME" mtu=SIZE store=persistent

Discovered via http://www.richard-slater.co.uk/archives/2009/10/23/change-your-mtu-under-vista-or-windows-7/

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Disable automatic restart after a Windows update!

11/06 15:07

Posted by r0s in Herramientas / Tools, Windows | No Comments

In another post I gave a solution to stop the reboot pop-up, now I’ve found something better: How to stop Windows asking after the update installations!

To do this just follow the next steps:

1) Go to Start > Run (or WindowsKey+R!).
2) Write gpedit.msc and execute it.
3) Go to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update.
4) Enable “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installation” (double click and Enable on the window that will popup).
5) Reboot.

From now on when a windows update automatically installs it won’t ask you to reboot. :)

Via: Michael Pietroforte at 4sysops.com.

Update!: Alternative way, because there are users that won’t have gpedit.msc (the Home versions of Windows for example), by editing the registry:

1) Go to Start > Run (or WindowsKey+R, I repeat!).
2) Write regedit and execute it.
3) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
4) In the REG_DWORD "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" modify the value with the value 1.
5) Reboot.

Via: Scott Schrantz at computer-vet.com

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LogMeIn Express, screen sharing made easy

08/06 12:43

Posted by r0s in Herramientas / Tools, Windows | 4 Comments

LogMeIn Express
Did it ever happen to you that you wanted to help someone with some computer related problem, or from the other side, you wanted to show to someone your desktop?
Usually you would need to configure some software (some type of VNC) installing it, opening ports, do some tests… and this could mean too much work.

Recently (well, in the MWC of this year) I discovered LogMeIn Express, now Join.me and after trying it I am delighted with it.
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Recover data from a backup nokia .nbu Nokia PC Suite

03/06 13:50

Posted by r0s in Herramientas / Tools, Windows | 2 Comments

If you have been in the need of recovering your phone numbers and maybe more data from a backup in .nbu format (or similar) done with Nokia PC Suite but your new phone isn’t another Nokia compatible, or you just don’t have another phone, you’ll find very useful:

http://www.nokisoft.com/ With its software Noki. It does just that, extract from the backup the data you need.

There is a Trial version (where you can export just some data) but we all know there are some full versions around the internet :)

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Stop the automatic restart after a Windows update

02/06 17:47

Posted by r0s in Herramientas / Tools, Windows | 1 Comment

Did it ever happen to you that you accepted a Windows update and after that you get a an annoying message asking you to reboot every 5 min?

Captura del mensajito de "desea reiniciar su equipo ahora"

I’m sure it did happen to you, to stop this happening you just need to write in WindowsStart-Execute (or WinKey+R):

sc stop wuauserv

With this you stop the message.
Its an old trick but I discovered it very late!

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