Display computer name under My computer icon

A very useful trick that I always use in my servers is displaying the computer name under ‘My Computer’ or ‘Computer’ in Windows 7/2008R2

To do this you need to change a certain registry key.

In xp/2003 operation systems the process is simple as described below.

In 2008/Win7 though, you will first have to logon as administrator and take ownership on the hive where the registry settings needs to be modified.

So how do we do this?

Monitoring memory usage with powershell

Recently I discovered that some of my managed servers has a memory leak.

to find which of the 300+ servers are running out of memory,

I wrote a simple and useful Powershell script.

You can use this as a template and add more hardware or software sampling with the correct WMI classes.

If you need to ping a list of computers or servers,

use this simple Powershell script that reads the list of host names from a .txt file (serverlist.txt file).

It uses the Test-Connection cmdlet to check for the remote computer status.

Hi SysAdmin

Ever wanted to build your own executable software? or protect your credentials included in a script?

There are some tools on the market like ‘wise installation system’ that can do the job.

But there is also a nice and free solution from Microsoft, embedded in your OS.

While you are in a command prompt session, you can create mini macros to execute long sentences of commands with just one word:

doskey mnd = net use Z: \\server1\myshare /user:admin MyPassword

When you write mnd and hit enter, the complete net use command will be executed.