Vista: allow pinging
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Computer, OS, Windows | No Comments »Vista is blocking pings. Nice to know? Well I always wondered why and I found out by (who would have gussed?) googling. Anyways, here is how to quit blocking incoming pings: Control Panel-> Administraive Tools-> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Select "Inbound ...
Networkfolder without password
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »To make a folder visible in network without everybody having to enter username an password is kind of not straight forward on Vista. So here you go: Rightclick on your folder and choose "Properties" In tab "Security" "Edit" "Groups and Usernames" "Add" something ...
Symbolic links and Vista
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Windows | No Comments »Using Vista you can create symblic links utilizing the ntfs commandline tool mklink.
Vista quit beeping!
Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Windows | No Comments »My problem was this annoying system beep. I hope this solved it. Still need to reboot. Open registry and browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\ Sound Set the Value "beep" to "no". Update: Rebooted. It works. Update: Something like this should work, too. Descriptions given may alter due ...
Windows Sysinternals
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in Windows | No Comments »Id din't know page like this existed: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx For example for Vista one can download the process monitor, which shows wich programm maintains and accesses which registry keys. Pretty usefull I think.
Install Ubuntu without GRUB using Vista Bootmanager
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Windows | No Comments »I am aware that this article is a mess! It's been created in a hurry. Maybe with time I'll be able to format it correctly and order things a litlle. This is the big Tutorial for it: Link to the original tutorial. Problem ...