November, 2009

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Nov 09

How to edit other user’s NTUSER.DAT

What if you need to edit some user’s registry and it is not listed in HKEY_USERS? For example we have like 400 profiles on one of our servers and regedit shows only around 20 under HKEY_USERS. I’ve found solution on one of forums:

To modify each users entries:

1. Open regedit
2. Click on HKEY_USERS keyname
3. File | Load Hive
4. Select one of the Users ntuser.dat file
5. Give it a unique name for adding to HKEY_USERS
6. Open HKEY_USERS\[UNIQUE NAME]
7. Make modifications
8. Click on HKEY_USERS\[UNIQUE_NAME] keyname
9. File | Unload Hive
10. Do next user

Very awkward user interface, but it works.

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Nov 09

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

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Nov 09

Free and simple Lightscribe labeling software

If you have Lightscribe-enabled DVD-RW drive and do not want any heavy fancy software to label your Lightscribe discs – try Lightscribe Simple Labeler.

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Nov 09

Roomba 500 series sidebrush screw

If you have iRobot® Roomba® 535 or similar vacuum and Roomba’s sidebrush screw is lost – try to replace it with one of those screws you usually get with hard drives, motherboards or cases. I have a big pile of computer-related screws and first I pick from that pile had a perfect fit. Today I save about $15-$20. =)

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Nov 09

XenServer 5.0 and Windows 7

Today my colleague asked me to create VM on our XenServer 5.0 farm with Windows 7. I pulled my DVD with Windows 7 RC and tried to deploy it on VM, but it hanged on screen “Starting Windows”. I spent some time googling and found this:

A colleague recommended the following:

“1) XenServer 5.0: Due to a bug in the HyperV extensions, installing a Windows 7 OS on XenServer 5.0 server may result in a blue screen or get hung during initialization. In order to install Windows 7 images on a XenServer

5.0 machine, you will need to perform the following workaround:

$ xe vm-param-set uuid= platform:viridian=false
You can obtain the vmuuid by running the following command from your host: xe vm-list

2) XenServer Tools: the XenServer tools currently do not work on Windows 7. If you attempt to install them you will experience a blue screen! ”

Recommended command did the trick and I’m looking on Windows 7 installation right now.

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