Installing a clean Development box
The hard drive in my development box died last week, and although I’ll spare you the story of the replacement process, I thought it might be interesting to document the process of rebuilding my dev box, and provide color commentary while I’m at it. Install Windows Vista (Business) Get domain admin (my boss) to log [...]
Vista setuid – How to elevate without prompting
Ever since Vista came out, users have been trying to find ways to avoid the “Elevation Prompt” when running things which require administrative access. There are lots of obvious solutions, but I’ve found one that’s not so obvious, and I’ve found an easy way to use it with PowerShell. First though, an explanation of what [...]