Saturday, September 13, 2014

Webcast: FSLogix - Dynamic Application Visibility without the hassle of application virtualization

Dynamic Application Visibility without the hassle of application virtualization, its sequencing and device driver issues...
A quite simple, but effective approach.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Webcast: PernixData FVP - Storage-Performance von der Storage-Kapazität entkoppeln

This german webcast tries to answer some questions about PernixData FVP.
12 brilliant answers on storage acceleration

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Monday, December 16, 2013

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Hide libraries, favorites, homegroup in Windows Explorer navigation pane


The Windows Explorer Navigation Pane Configuration Tool (WENPCFG) is open source and hosted on github, which enables you to show or hide the following nodes and their sub nodes in the navigation pane of Windows Explorer and also in the Open- and Save-File-Dialogs introduced in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012:

  • Libraries
  • Favorites
  • Computer
  • Network
  • Home Group
  • User Files
  • OneDrive (experimental for Windows 10)
  • Quick Access (experimental for Windows 10)

NOTE: Changing the configuration of Windows
Explorer to show or hide any of the above nodes
affects every user logging on to this computer.
It is not possible to set this per user. It is a
machine based configuration.

WENPCFG is a command line application and is
only intended for
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and
Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
.
Running WENPCFG requires
elevated privileges.
Release History:
2010: developed for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
2012: added support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
2014: added support for Window Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
2015: added support for Windows 10

For further details check out the wenpcfg/docs directory.  

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

ProcessArbiter sets process priorities in Windows on demand

Process Arbiter boosts the agility of a Windows Operating System when running multiple applications.
Process Arbiter is open source and available on Github.
https://github.com/andif888/ProcessArbiter
On a single desktop for example you can run multiple applications (backup, CD-burning, video encoding) which consumes many CPU resources in the background. At this moment other application you are trying to run are normally very unresponsive, because the CPU resources are exhausted. ProcessArbiter dynamically adjusts priorities at which an application gets CPU times. This means for example your video encoding application gets dynamically a lower priority. If there is no application which requests CPU time at the moment, your video encoding application can still run on full speed. If you run now an application which currently requests CPU time, it immedially gets scheduled because of its higher priority. Your PC is much more responsive.
In Terminal Server environments (server based computing), when multible users are working with multible application on one Microsoft Windows Server at the same time, ProcessArbiter can show at its best. ProcessArbiter manages priorities of all running application dynamically and fully automated. The users running the terminal sessions will immediately recognize the more snappier behavior and responsiveness of their applications. Administrators can easily run scheduled tasks during work hours without interferring user sessions.
The best news is, that there is no complicated configuration in ProcessArbiter. After installation, which is a 5 seconds task, ProcessArbiter will do its job. It is implemented as reliably Windows Service with nearly no overhead.
Software Requirements:
  • Any of the following operation systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP (x86, x64), Windows Vista (x86, x64), Windows 7 (x86, x64), Window 8 (x86, x64), Windows 8.1 (x86, x64), Windows 10 (x86, x64) Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 (x86, x64), Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64), Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or above
Download Process Arbiter from Github: