Friday, October 2, 2009

Preventing Windows Automatic Update Reboot

IT Dojo on Tech Republic has a challenge that has some very interesting solutions to preventing Windows from trying to automatically reboot after an update. Handy, if your working on a project and do not wish to be interupted.
The user manually reboots the computer when ready.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1055

I chose a method as such:

Run the command gpedit.msc. Press Windows key + R to do this.

In the folder tree, select

Double-click the setting

Enable the setting and select OK.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Folder Size in Windows Explorer


Ever wanted to know how big each folder was? Need to find out which folders are hogging all that disk space?
I googled "Folder Size XP" and found two sites that help you install a DLL file that allows you add a Folder Size column to you detailed file listing.

Those sites are
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/foldersize.htm
and
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/DirectorySize.aspx?df=100&forumid=26286&exp=0&select=1151181