Windows

Windows portal page.

Links

Windows related pages on this wiki:

• Administration
• Windows 7
• Windows 7 boot troubleshooting
• Windows 8 (including UEFI boot, EFI partition)

Reference

Technical information

• MSDN — Windows Hardware Design and Development
  Official documentation from Microsoft
  • → Windows Hardware Development → Drivers → Windows Driver Development → Device and Driver Installation
    Include documentation related to driver registry keys, etc.
• Window 7 — Sysprep Technical Reference
  The System Preparation (Sysprep) tool is a technology that you can use with other deployment tools to install Windows® operating systems onto new hardware.
  • Sample sysprep file for Windows 7
  • sysprep guide windows 7
  • The System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) in Microsoft Windows 7

Software

Google Desktop

Message when uninstalling Google Desktop:

I prefer another product

Lack configurability (which folder to search / not search). Relevance of results low. Many dead entries (eg when files moved), or new files not found. No support for accented character! Only find for whole words. Can't find mistyped search (like Google does on Internet). Some pages are very badly formatted (like the mail thread page, where column widths are ridiculously small). Google on Internet set a very high standard for search engine, and to my opinion Desktop version is not matching expectations. On the positive side, speed search is fast, and overall the system does not seem to suffer of the load (except when indexing Lotus Notes database approx. every morning or so).

Commands

arp

Displays and modifies the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by address resolution protocol (ARP).

assoc

Displays or modifies file extension associations

netstat

Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.

(use it to display current open connections, listening ports...)

netstat -ano         #All, numeric, owning process PID
netstat -rn          #Kernel route table, numberic
netstat -p TCP -bv   #Only show TCP connection, print executable and component stack

net

NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP |

HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION |

SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]

nslookup

Lookup DNS server for given domain name