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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Firefox on Vista doesn’t have to be so ugly

25-Apr-07

Because non-native UI sucks, here’s a couple of extensions that help to make Firefox look much better on Windows Vista. These extensions mimic the Internet Explorer 7 interface, including the Windows Vista menus, making Firefox feel far more at home.

Install MyFireFox to get the Internet Explorer 7 skin
Install Hide MenuBar to hide the menu bar [...]

The Short NAP: Wednesday 25th April 2007

24-Apr-07

The Short NAP is a quick list of Microsoft Network Access Protection and Server/Domain Isolation related links from around the web. Here are links for Wednesday the 25th of April 2007:
This edition of the Short NAP is a little earlier than expected as Microsoft has released a number of guides for configuring Network Access Protection [...]

Unattended VMware Tools

23-Apr-07

Here’s how to create an unattended installation of VMware Tools which I’ve aimed specifically at Terminal Servers, however you can apply the same concepts for any Windows server installed under any of the VMware virtualisation products.
Creating a Transform File
When installing a Terminal Server on VMware Server or ESX, you need to ensure you do [...]

Files Not Moved to the Recycle Bin?

23-Apr-07

On our internal Terminal Servers the CEO has been having an issue whereby files or folders are not sent to the Recycle Bin, rather they are immediately deleted. If you logon with administrative rights on the machine, you can send files to the Recycle Bin. To date, he’d been told that this would be fixed [...]