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Location of all user’s desktop and start menu in Windows 7

All user’s desktop: C:UsersPublicDesktop All user’s start menu: C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart Menu

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Windows Sysinternals – Auto system reboot

The application is called PsShutdown, and is downloadable for free: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ PsShutdown is quite similar to “regular” shutdown – the former accepts the same parameters as the latter, but has various additional features, such as logging off users, locking the work station, and foremost: shutdown of the system when nobody’s logged in, or when the console is locked. Usage […]

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Monitor disk i/o in linux

Wondering how much disk i/o is taking place on my linux server (Ubuntu). I decided it was time to install some tools to help me out. Here is what i am using: iostat iostat makes a snapshot of each available physical volume, and shows the current reads and writes of the volumes. dstat dstat is […]

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Convert thick disks to thin provisioning | ESX

Got Space? I don’t Seeing how it’s not possible to convert a VMWare Guest VM’s from ‘thick’ to ‘thin’. I will provide some simple info on how to clone the disk into a ‘thin’ disk. Once completed the original ‘thick’ disk can be deleted # remote into your ESX Server # service console can be […]

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Install VMWare Tools Ubuntu Server

This is a little short on how to install the ESX VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server If you are not running as the ‘root’ user you will need to change into super user Lets start —   # if not running as ‘root’ change into super user sudo su # update your sources apt-get update […]

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I/O Errors = Failing HD = ESX Server Issues

Hello All, Today I ran into some issues.  Merry Christmas! My Laptop/ESXi 5 Server started giving me issues with my guest systems.  After trying to work out the issues with web-server I noticed that other machine were also having the same issues.  Oh no!  My hard drive is on its way out.  I quickly jumped into action […]