All posts tagged with 'Windows'

Scripted network mounts with Windows

12-Dec-11

I have some services and scheduled tasks that call a Batch file under windows. The scheduled tasks cannot access network drives that the assigned user has defined, but luckily there is a “mount” pendant within Windows as well. To mount a network share within the Batch script use: net use t: \\server\share /persistent:no The authentication […]

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On installing Windows Vista

30-Jun-07

A Microsoft employee describes installing Vista on his Dell Machine as a “personal hell”: It said “Copying files 0%”. And there it stayed. I left for half an hour, came back and it had copied files but was at “Expanding files 1%”. I went to bed, woke up the next morning expecting to see a […]

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