Windows 7 and "network neighbourhood"

Windows 7 and "network neighbourhood"

1. Click Start menu and open Control Panel.
2. Open "Network and Sharing Center" and click "Change advanced sharing settings" option in the left panel.
3. In domain profile, please select "Turn on Network discovery" and save the settings.
4. Click Start menu
5. Click "Start", go to run, type "services.msc" (without quotation marks) in the open box and press Enter.
6. Click Continue button to verify the administrator permission.
7. Right click Computer Browser Service and choose Properties.
8. On General tab click Start.
9. Choose Automatic next to Startup type.
10. Click OK.

Further Changes:

• Make sure that remote registry service is set to auto start
• TCP/IP advanced properties: enable Netbios over TCP/IP

Windows 7 "interactive state" issue with McAfee Anti Virus

Windows 7 "interactive state" issue with McAfee Anti Virus

Having looked at the logs, Windows Server 2008 was not allowing NAI ePO Agent MSI to run, having looked the Framepkg.exe copies the content of the agent to Program Data and runs the package from Programs Data.

What I did was to Copy the content of EPO Agent to Program Data and run Framepkg.exe from the command line with the following parameters

Windows 7 auto-logon

 Windows 7 auto-logon

 

• Click on Start and then enter the following command in the search box: netplwiz
• Press the ENTER key.

Use BIOS AHCI mode for Windows 7

Use BIOS AHCI mode for Windows 7

If your machines are running in ATA mode you could be missing out.  However,  changing over to this mode can cause some issues (a blue screen,  indeed) in Windows 7.

If you do want to do this you can make the change and avoid the blue screen:

Group policy to show "recent items" in Windows 7 menu

Group policy to show "recent items" in Windows 7 menu

There is a confirmed bug with Windows 7 / group policy around this setting.

The scenario is as follows:

• Windows 7 disables Recent Items in the Start Menu by default
• You want to enable Recent Items via group policy
• You configure ‘User configuration\Policies\Administrative templates\Start menu and taskbar\Remove recent items menu from start menu’  and set this to ‘disabled’

Even though you have implemented the above setting, Recent Items still doesn’t show up

This is a bug and the workaround is to add a registry entry HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Start_ShowRecentDocs and set this REG_DWORD value to 1.

Make VMware Virtual NICs part of an "identified network" to avoid firewall issues on running VMs

When you install VMware Workstation or Player on a Windows 7 machine you will notice that if you hover your mouse over the network icon in the system tray your network is mentioned in the popup: plus "unidentified network". This can cause you serious bother if you are running virtual machines and want to connect them to the internet as the virtual network cards (NIC) for the NAT or bridged networks are no longer within the parameters set by the operating system's firewall.

To get round this:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

Click the follwoing subkey:HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Browse through the 00xx subkeys until you find the REG_SZ VMNet subkey with a value of either “\DosDevices\VMnet8” or “\DosDevices\VMnet1” (default values) (13 & 15?)

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type *NdisDeviceType, and then press Enter.

On the Edit menu, click Modify.

Type 1, and then click OK.

Exit Registry Editor.

Disable & re-enable the VMWare NICs

DoneNote: In case simply disabling and re-enabling the virtual NICs doesn’t fix the problem immediately reboot your computer.

God Mode

God Mode

 Here is how you get access to it:

Banish UAC

Banish UAC

For Windows 7 Ultimate, Business or Enterprise edition which has Local Group Policy, or computer joined to domain and has Active Directory-based GPO, the group policy can be used to disable UAC for local computer or many computer across large networks at once.

A better view of Explorer

When you click on your Windows explorer link in your taskbar Windows 7 will default to showing you the "libraries" view.

This may not be what you want: especially since many do not use the libraries feature much as yet.