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
Tag: Windows
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.
Simple Backup Solution for SQL Server Express
So last week I was asked by one of our developers, if I can help them in setting up some sort of automated backup system which actually takes backup of database to a shared network drive at given time and also we need to retain past X day’s (or 3 day’s) backup copy just in
Task history for Windows Scheduled Tasks !!
Though user’s workstations are usually upgraded with time, but generally servers are not so lucky. I guess they are last in the row (if the ever consider to be upgrade worthy), so if you are somehow required to work on these systems then it certainly gives you feel of old age computing (at least its
SSRS Execution Account and Password Change Policy
It is standard enterprise practice to make users to change their password at every 30 days or so. No doubt it is really a good practice but it can cause some funny issues if you have applied same password expiration policy to service accounts or to accounts which are basically used to perform some sort