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Is that program running as administrator?

Using Process Explorer to view process integrity levels A friend asked me how to open a Control Panel applet As Administrator. In Windows Vista, when you see a little shield icon as part of a button or shortcut, that would indicate that you would get prompted by the User Account Control (UAC) facility to elevate [...]

Changing Boot drive with BCDBoot

Scott Hanselman is a consistently good source of useful info and commentary. Recently, he needed to change which drive his computer used as its System drive, which is to say the drive containing the boot loader and configuration. ( N.B. For some reason, the “System Drive” contains the boot info, and the “Boot Drive” contains [...]

Friday – March 6

Storage issues overnight; thanks, Greg, for putting out the fire. Server storage resize project: IBM RSA access established, trouble getting GNU PartEd. NERCOMP Campus Agreement LiveMeeting Planning and design of home directory storage. Did some interesting analysis. Don’t want to break anything before the weekend, though. And I’m back on call. And I solved a [...]