I was working on one of my personal projects and I thought that it would be really cool if I have my own source control mechanism so I can always rollback to older versions if I ever need to do it. Till now, I was always just keep multiple copies of each project so if
Category: Windows
Becoming administrator of my own machine !!
I know, it sounds strange. But it is fact that when we install Windows 7 or Vista (say any non-server post XP OS ?), and even if select ourselves as local administrator we actually don’t become administrator !! And due to that even if you disable that notorious UAC notifications you will still sometimes need
Removing Favorite, HomeGroup and Libraries from Explorer in Windows 7
I like Windows 7. No doubt that it is better than Windows Vista at few aspects (but still XP was the best , I really miss search of XP). With new UI, Windows 7 has add new options in Windows Explorer like Favorites, HomeGroup and Libraries. But I personally believe that they are just a
Side effects of User Account Control (UAC) of Windows 7
When I used it for first time I thought that UAC was really annoying feature of Windows Vista. I mean for each and every app it was required me to confirm, if I wanted to perform some task which required access to core system. It was more like low level mimic of Linux. But after
Change default port in Apache
This quick post is about changing default port in Apache. Say if you wanted to work with IIS and Apache both. Now, both web server uses port 80 and so you can’t have both of them at the same time. So one has to sacrifice it’s favorite port . In my case it was Apache
Disable Shutdown Event Tracker
I’ve been using Windows Servers provided by MSFT for free from past few years (not by downloading from Torrent sites by via DreamSpark program) ranging from 2003r2 to the latest one 2008r2. And almost all of them have one feature that really annoys me and that is “Shutdown Event Tracker”. I simply don’t understand that
PAE … is it enabled ??
Last week I was asked by my boss that how do we know that if production server has PAE enabled ?? Since we are using Windows Server 2003 x86 with about 16Gb Ram, we’ve always assumed that we have it enabled because in task manager we can find that OS actually “see” all 16Gb ram.