Blog posts by Helge Klein

Everybody knows that Windows installations become bigger with every version. But Windows' hard disk footprint grows not only because Microsoft adds new files, but also because some files seem to be delete-proof and are not removed, even though they have been obsolete for ages. This is a compilation of some of these files along with images of their 1990's style icons.

Grpconv.exe

Attending the community conference PubForum E2E Conference has many benefits, the biggest is in my opinion getting to know many very talented and very nice people. One of them, Ton de Vreede, recently sent me a PowerShell script he had written which I am happy to publish here.

What Does it Do?

DefPrn.ps1 saves and loads the configurations of mapped network printers as well as the default printer. The clever thing is that it is designed to work with multiple configurations. That makes it easy to have different configurations per site/location.

With the new cloud/VDI migration mode and domain migration capabilites Profile Migrator 2.2 is the most complete user personality migration product on the market today. Here is a list of what 2.2 has to offer from a technical point of view.

When it comes to copying files, Windows Explorer may probably be called reliable, but fast it is not. After the rewrite of the copy routines in Vista had caused much customer dissatisfaction, Microsoft rewrote the copy dialog again for Windows 7. But still, especially copying many small files takes ages.

And there are other problems: Explorer does not handle long paths at all. Files and directories stored in paths longer than 260 characters (MAX_PATH) are not copied by Explorer.