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  • !@#$%^ Windows stupid ownership / permissions changes in Vista/Server 2008

    This is a response to the above message which zillions of system administrators world wide hate seeing on their server console. These messages were introduced as a new “feature” of Windows Server 2008, along with the changes that cause them. Microsoft arbitrarily brought in different meanings of ownership in Vista/2008 that are different from XP/2003.…

  • Windows Thin PC [3]

    Today’s Thin PC experience has been to set up a computer at work to see what I can do with it. I wrote a custom shell in Delphi 5 which has a very simple task of launching Remote Desktop Connection and passing a RDP file to it. This means the user doesn’t have to do…

  • Windows Thin PC [2]

    Following on from today’s earlier post, I have found out that WTPC is supported by WAIK, which allows for a custom image in the same way as we would set one up with Windows 7 Enterprise. I also found out how to get Remote Desktop client to start automatically by replacing the shell. However I…

  • Windows Thin PC

    Recently I was logging into the MS VLSC and I noticed a MAK for Windows Thin PC. So naturally I wondered what this was and took a closer look. Windows Thin PC was put on general release on 1 July (five days ago) and it is essentially Windows Embedded Standard (2010) (i.e. Windows 7 SP1…

  • How to fix Windows 7 logon error: “The Group Policy Client failed the logon. Access is denied.”

    I have seen this particular error several times with Windows 7 and Vista and we are not helped by a lack of documentation from Microsoft for this problem. In my case the most recent instance of this occurred when I had to drop and recreate a user account. The first time I got the error…