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    Self Service VM Provision

    I'm looking to setup a self service portal for VM provisioning. I've read that this might be possible with VMware Orchestrator and since we already have a vcenter licence this might be ideal. I'm also considering a more custom setup with a PHP form translating to a script to run against vcenter...
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    Vista remembers last disk in ROM drive.

    Been having this irritating problem on several computers, home and work. Basically Vista remembers the last disk that was in the room drive. Takes a reboot for my computer to show the drive as being empty. Also been having a lot of problems with Vista showing burnt cd's and dvd's as being...
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    Question about SIDs

    I've been playing around with ghosting machines and want to know if I'm likely to encounter any SID problems. At the moment what I've been doing is building the machine on the domain just the same as I would if I wasn't going to ghost it. Then to ghost it I unplug the network cable, change it...
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    Vista 64 bit, 64 bit apps as default

    OK, Vista 64 is set to use Internet Explorer 7 32-bit as default and Media Player 32-bit as default. I'm looking for an easy way to set everything to run native 64-bit. Anyone know all which apps are set to default to 32-bit and an easy way to change them over. Yes I know there will be...
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    Vista - Whats it doing with all my storage?

    I'm curious, 12 GB or therabouts after initial install. My Vista install has swelled to around 40 GB. If I minus around 15 GB for any programs and games I have installed, whats it all being used for. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
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    Virtual Machine Licensing...

    Does anyone know how this works. I've found plenty of info from a white paper Microsoft released last year of licensing its server products in a virtual machine environment. I want to know what the licensing situation is with XP and Vista, do I need a license for every instance running, virtual...
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    Corrupt xls

    Can anyone recommend me a program to repair corrupt excel files. Thanks
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    Integrated Intel 1366 768 Output

    How do i get my onboard Intel G965 Express with its vga out to output 1366x768. I'm trying to get it to run my Samsung R74. Any help is greatly appreciated. Please don't say i'm gonna need to buy a new graphics card. :(
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    Pin shortcut to shared folder on start menu.

    Anyone know if its possible to pin a shortcut to a shared folder on another computer to the start menu.
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    Cool 'n' quiet

    Apologies if this has been covered in a thread before, did search but couldn't find anything. Reinstalled windows and decided to enable cool 'n' quiet to see if i can notice any change in noise and power consumption. I've enabled CnC in the bios and installed the amdcpu.exe driver, however...
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    Letter Scanning Archive Solution

    Does anyone know of a way or if any software exists to scan letters, store them in an organised way and allow them to be archived. This is for a local accountancy company who wish to scan and store all their letters on their server. Any help would be much appreciated i've never heard of any...
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    SBS Evaluation

    Anyone know if i can get a trial SBS without waiting. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/trial/default.mspx Thanks in advance.
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    Whats better than a HVR 1100

    I currently have an HVR-1100 and it works well but i was curious to see if there was anything better. I've read around but found nothing particularly helpful. Would upgrading to a 1300 with a hardware encoder be better, would i notice a difference. Would using a pvr 150 in conjunction...
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    How to reset the master password.

    Hi i need to know how to reset the master password. Not the admin password but the master password. Any help greatly appreciated.
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    Server 2003 Shared Drive Password Prompt

    Ok I have just installed Server 2003, done all the updates created a backup admin user etc. The purpose of the machine is to host my workgroups shared drive. I've created the shared drive but keep getting prompted for password for accessing the shared folder even when share permission is...
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    Grid video encoding.

    I have a few extra machines sitting around all quite low spec between 500 and 1000 MHz. Anyone know of a way they could be used together for video encoding. Sort of a beowulf cluster idea. Just looking for something to do with these machines. Not willing to spend heaps of money on expensive...
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    Suspected DNS problem.

    I've got this problem on some of one computers where after the computer is left unused for a period of time > 1hr or so, it can't access any web pages. Reason i suspect it must be dns is that using ip address in the ie address bar works and azuresus still works fine. Using a netgear dg834 with...
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    Help backing up DVDs please!

    Ok first i have searched the forums to help me, but i couldn't find anything that was really step by step for a noobie to video encoding like me. Basicaly I want to back up my dvds to hard disk so that i can watch them in wmp or divx player or whatever. I have used DVDFab Decrypter to rip dvd to...
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