Read-Only USB custom Policy for Windows XP using Domain GPO.

HI, back again to the blog. This time I have been doing research for the ‘GROUP POLICY EDITOR’ for server 2008 R2 and Server 2012. During my research I found that ‘GPMC’ is a quite vast tool and can control almost everything of the system on AD. Here I have created a custom group policy to block the USB drive.

Some of you may ask why I need to create USB drive although I do have already a policy on the server to block USB. But if you read this policy carefully you will find out that this policy is for only the OS which are higher version than Windows Vista (i.e. Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8). But if someone ask you for Windows XP than??? What will you do?? If someone ask you for make a read-only policy for USB on windows XP. What will you do again?? So Simply I have created a custom Policy that can be compatible with windows XP or any other Windows Platform OS. Copy this code, Paste on notepad and save it in the extension of ‘.adm’.

Unleash the Hidden power of Control Panel in Windows 7.

I have been playing with windows 7 when the pre-beta version of windows 7 had been released. I was so happy to see the different new feature on the windows 7 in respect to the older version of operating system, and performance was awesome…….I too was surprised to learn hidden control panel applets of windows 7 as well in Windows Vista. I didn’t knew it before until I read some article related to regedit  on windows7 and Windows Vista.Here sharing my experience on the hidden applets of the control panel in windows 7 and Windows Vista.

[FIXED] JUMPLIST disappear in Windows 7

Jumplist one of the most efficient facility in the windows 7…where we can easily access to the most used windows or the pinned window without any trouble to go through My Computer. But what if the Jumplist get disappear…..same thing happen to me somedays before…few minutes ago I was using the jumplist to play my favorite songs on windows media player but suddenly it get disappear when i try to get change to the next song….and similar things happens to my Windows Explorer jumplist also. I was not able to access my jumplist…so get recover it..I tried to pin out the icon in my taskbar and again try to pin in back on the taskbar….but still it does not work for me…..so then i thought of the recent document on the jumplist and cleared my recent document….voila it works.

[FIXED] Gadget Window disappear in Windows 7

Someday ago I was just tweaking my machine…i.e. windows 7….and it just gave me impact of gadget window disappear….whenever I try to open the gadget Window by right click on the desktop, to select the gadget I get no response…it was like I was having misfire every time. To fix it I ran out through the registry to the system files and etc….but it was too easy…I have never expect that it could be happen… I just checked my UAC it was disable…and that was the cause for misfire in the gadget windows of mine.Here I am providing some reasons why you cannot get you gadget window appear.

AD LDS(Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services) on Windows 7.

Active Directory Lightweight Version (AD LDS) is now available for Windows 7 also.AD LDS provides directory services for directory-enabled application. Administrators will be able to see this version without the domain control oversight.AD LDS comes with support for Windows 7 Enterprise; Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

[Windows 7]MS Application Virtualization for Remote Desktop Services.

Problem may occur  like Application Conflicts in remote desktop services deployments. Servers begin to containt he applications within the servers and this may isolate and prevent the application from running as intended.so,to resolve sucha kind of problem Microsoft has released the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) for Remote Desktop Support Program.This program is designed to provide assistance to solve application compatibility issues on Remote Desktop Session Hosts or Terminal Servers.Now in recent Microsoft has released Version App-V for RDS 4.6, which also support 64-bit operating systems.

Application Compatibility avilable for Windows 7

Windows Vista RTM has got an extremly poor application compatibility experience to end users, unlike that on windows 7 evolution causing extremely  free apps to break when insalled or run on top of the new operating system.But still windows 7 does fil to play nice with the some few application and programs. This is why now Microsoft peridocially kics up a notice to the platform, updating it in order to resolve various problme reported by customer. For e.g. Feb 2010 Application Compatibility update.

What new in Windows 8?

After the successful launch of Window 7, Microsoft is now working hard to plan the next iteration of the Windows Client and Server Platforms. But even thought the successor of Windows 7, commonly referred under the codename 8, was in planning, the Redmond company is not sharing any details on the release with the public and the silence is still continues when the first reports indicating that Microsoft has actually kicked off the development process for windows 8 began emerging.

[Fix] Vulnerability on 32-bit Windows 7

Some days ago I was going through some article fixing the error on windows 7….but suddenly I got an article about the 17- year old EoP (Elevation of Privilege) Vulnerability that is still surviving in our Operating system with a multiple iteration of  platform. It is the case of the BIOS calls in the virtual 8086 mode monitor code which was introduced in Windows NT 3.1, released in 1993 and that is surviving till this day in Windows 7. In this regard, Microsoft has confirmed information made Public detailing a vulnerability contained in every release of the Windows NT kernel and dating back 17 years.

[Fix] Windows 7 Black Screens for Some AMD/ATI GPUs

Installing Windows 7 is not a big issue for anyone now, especially when there is compatibility and support for it. But if there arise compatibility or support problem then it is no more simple task. Microsoft have just released that, Windows 7 fails to play nice with machine that have an AMD/ATI  Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) leveraging the embedded DisplayPort (eDP) technology. Many user had attempted to install Windows 7 on such PC but they were unable to complete the deployment.