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• Disappearing disk space on Vista

  The hard drive space on my Vista machine recently dropped to almost nothing, and I was really confused what was going on. I used my favorite disk space visualizer ( WinDirStat ). However, I couldn’t figure it out. Finally, I found that the following steps Read More... Posted Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:01 PM by dancre | 2 Comments Filed under: Vista

• mstsc /console is now /admin in Vista SP1

  I find it kind of annoying that Vista SP1 switches the /console switch to /admin. I don't understand why they had to break this and couldn't keep the old switch working. There's a bit more info at: Nick MacKechnie : MSTSC /console switch in Windows Server Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:37 PM by dancre | 1 Comments Filed under: Vista

• Getting machine to go to sleep under Vista

  I was having a strange problem getting my computer to go to sleep under Vista. When my laptop was not plugged in, it would go to sleep fine when I closed the lid. However, when my laptop was plugged in and I losed the lid, it would lock but not go to Read More... Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:34 PM by dancre | 1 Comments Filed under: Vista