Search providers are stored in the registry in either the HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hives at Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes. To automate the process of adding search providers to computers, use a test computer to configure the search engines manually, including specifying the default search engine. Then, create a .reg file based on this registry key and... »
Archive for January 17th, 2010
Run Check Disk to Find Out And Repair Disk Errors
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
You should sporadically utilize the Check Disk tool to assure the integrity of disks. Check Disk analyzes disks and can rectify several types of basic faults on FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS drives. One of the methods Check Disk locates errors is by likening the volume bitmap with the disk sectors allotted to files in... »
How To Monitor System Performance Using Windows PowerShell
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
A new feature in Windows 7 is the ability to use Windows PowerShell for gathering performance data. Three new Windows PowerShell cmdlets provide functionality as follows: Get-counter Gets real-time performance counter data from local and remote computers. Import-counter Exports PerformanceCounterSampleSet objects as performance counter log (.blg, .csv, .tsv) files. Export-counter Imports performance counter log files and... »


