May 29


While installing Windows 7 professional on several laptops at work we found that network file copy perfomance was horrible. Because we do all our application installs over the network the slow network performance on the Windows 7 Pc’s was really putting a crimp in our ability to configure the systems quickly. We thought that security settings or software or antivirus software might be the problem but it turned out to be a new feature of Windows 7 causing the slow file server and file copy performance.

Windows 7 by default has a feature called remote differential compression enabled. When remote differential compression is enabled and you are trying to copy files off a Windows file server the files copy but the peformance is poor. Because Windows 7 seems to have issues with Remote Differential Compression, we just turned off the feature on our Windows 7 Pc’s and immediately we found file copy performance improved to what we’d consider normal.

To restore file copy performance on your Windows 7 PC Click Start, Click Control Panel. Go into the Programs And Features icon and choose Turn Windows Features On/Off on the left side of the pane. Then uncheck Remote Differential Compression, click ok and reboot.
Turn Off Remote Differential Compression Windows 7[

May 21

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 now use a public key and KMS server to activate for volume license deployments. A good document describing the process and containing the public Windows 7 and Windows 2008 KMS keys can be found at this website.

May 13


If you are looking for the RSA Soft Token application that runs on Windows 7 you are in luck. RSA has released version 4.1 of their RSA SecurID token that runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. You can obtain the Windows 7 Soft Token direct from RSA at http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=1162

Or Pull the Windows 7 RSA Token from here.

Feb 14


If you’ve tried upgrading Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise or Professional you may have already discovered that Windows 7 will tell you that you cannot upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise. Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade will tell you that only a fresh install is possible which will not take your current Vista Enterprise settings with. However there is a way to trick Windows 7 in to thinking you are running Windows Vista Business which is able to upgrade to Windows 7 Enterprise. The trick is to change two registry settings in Hkey Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version You need to change the Edition ID and Product Name key. Change the word Enterprise to Business and then rerun the Windows 7 Enterprise setup. This time you can upgrade Windows Vista Enterprise to Windows 7 Enterprise.