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Phil Ashman

Win7News Editor's Videos to be Added to Official Microsoft Support Website - Windows 7 ... - 0 views

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    The first five videos to appear cover using the automated troubleshooters, the extremely well hidden system file checker, how to get started with the event viewer, how  to use Windows Startup Repair and finally how you can manually repair corrupt boot files for Windows 7.
Phil Ashman

Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8 - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - ... - 0 views

  • maximum capacity of a single hard disk drive will increase to 8TB by 2015.
  • The Master Boot Record partition table (MBR) scheme was invented at the time, which allowed for up to 32-bits of information to represent the maximum capacity of the disk. Simple math informs us that the largest addressable byte represented via 32 bits is 232 or 2.2TB.
  • GPT allows for up to 64-bits of information to store the number that represents the maximum size of a disk, which in turn allows for up to a theoretical maximum of 9.4 ZettaByte (1 ZB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes).
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  • UEFI was designed from the ground up to work with very large capacity drives by utilizing the GUID partition table, or GPT
  • that is, a lot of the space in the current 512-byte sector is being used to store ECC information instead of being available for you to store your data. This, among other things, has led to the introduction of larger sector sizes.
  • Disks with this emulation layer to support unaligned writes are called 4K with 512-byte emulation, or “512e” for short. Disks without this emulation layer are called “4K Native.”
  • Learning from some issues identified with prior versions of Windows, AF disks have been a key design point for new features and technologies in Windows 8; as a result, Windows 8 is the first OS with full support for both types of AF disks – 512e and 4K Native.
Phil Ashman

Solving PPTP VPN Error: 720 on Windows 7 - 0 views

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    My Problem: When trying to connect from a Windows 7 workstation to a PPTP VPN being served by a Server 2003 machine running RRAS I received Error: 720 "A connection to the remote computer might not be established. You might need to change the network settings for this connection." This would happen after the "Verifying username and password" phase during the "Registering your computer on the network" phase.
Phil Ashman

Top Freeware Network Tools for Windows 7 | Windows 7 News - 0 views

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    If you have the right working tools for network operations, you can get a lot of information that can help you control or monitor the network.  Here are three tools, WinTracer, PacketViewer, and NetTraffic that are easy to use and provide you with a steady stream of network information.
Phil Ashman

Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio... - 0 views

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    Free Microsoft eBooks
Phil Ashman

Windows and GPT FAQ: Version 1.1 - 0 views

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    Windows and GPT FAQ
Phil Ashman

Windows 7 GodMode - Learn How To Unlock Windows 7 God Mode - 0 views

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    Provides access to all the control panel and system configuration options in one place
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