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 Imagine that you browse through and connect to a share, entering your username and password to gain access. The problem is that you stay connected, and there’s no visible way to disconnect yourself. If you try and shut down the other PC, you’ll receive a message that users are still connected. So let’s disconnect! Open up a command prompt, and then type in the following: net use This will give you a list of the connected drives, including the ones that aren’t actually mapped to a drive letter. To disconnect one of the connections, you can use the following command: net use /delete \\server\sharename For example, in this instance we’d disconnect like so: net use /delete \\192.168.10.100\root$ Now when you run the “net use” command again, you’ll see that you’ve been properly disconnected. If you wanted to actually connect to a share without mapping a drive letter, you can do the following: net use /user:Username \\server\sharename Password You could then just ...

Boot off the Windows Server 2008 R2 disk and select the “Repair your computer” option from the lower left-hand corner. Follow through until you get to the option to open the Command Prompt, which you’ll want to select.   First you’ll want to type in the following command to backup the utilman.exe file:     MOVE C:\Windows\System32\Utilman.exe C:\Windows\System32\Utilman.exe.bak Now you will need to copy cmd.exe and rename it Utilman.exe:     COPY C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe C:\Windows\System32\Utilman.exe Now you can go ahead and reboot your machine. When its done booting up again and you are at the Logon screen click on the Ease of access icon.

If you are trying to activate your copy of Windows 7 and get the error “0xC004F061″ it means you’re using a product key for an upgrade version of Windows7 and a previous version of Windows wasn’t found on your computer when Windows7 was installed. Technically, you need to install an upgrade version of Windows7 on or you can do the following: Open a command prompt window as an Administrator Enter the following commands slmgr -ipk <Product key> slmgr -ato

  If you do not want to use Outlook 2010’s RSS Feed Reader feature, you should remove it. It slows down Outlook. This also shows you how to remove the RSS feeds from the Outlook sidebar.

The Calculator comes with Windows 7 is having some additional features . Lets check out these options. You can access window7 calculator from Start Menu >All Programs>Accessories  OR Just Typing Calculator on the start menu search box.

Like windows XP and Vista we can create shortcut for shutdown but now you can pin those freshly created shortcuts to the Start Menu or the Taskbar or to both.

There are times where you will want to extend the amount of allocated space on your hard drive, referred to as a volume, to make more space. With the Windows 7 Disk Management Utility you can easily extend a volume & make more space if you have un allocated space on your HDD.

There are times where you will want to shrink the amount of allocated space on your hard drive, referred to as a volume, to make room for another partition. With the Windows 7 Disk Management Utility you can easily shrink a volume & create a new partition. Shrink a volume The first step is to start the Disk Management tool with elevated administrative rights. Click the Start menu button, type diskmgmt.msc into the search box, and then right-click the diskmgmt.msc entry to get to the Run as Administrator item in the context menu.