Funky KB: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Notes
Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
Microsoft publishes a comprehensive Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts list. This is a novelty to me. In the past we needed a third party to do this for us.
Speaking of ‘third party,’ serverfault.com has “Useful Command-line Commands on Windows”…
The “Copy As Path” Command in Windows
This article, “Copy Path of a File to the Clipboard in Windows 7 or Vista,” tells me (indirectly) that dragging a dropping a file on the Console no longer passes the path information to that file to the command line. I used this feature frequently but it was probably depending on a security hole. Now, we have to “hold down the Shift key, and right-click the file… Choose the Copy as Path from the menu.” This command does not appear in the right-click context menu without holding the Shift key.
Windows Server 2008 Security and XSL Transformations
Yours truly wrote “‘(503) Server Unavailable’ with call to XSL Transform in Windows Server 2008” on stackoverflow.com to memorialize an issue with XSL Transformations in .NET. As I move over into the XObject world, my captive hope is for this issue to e very, very obscure.
“Backward Compatible Networking with Server Core ”
Sander Berkouwer in “Backward Compatible Networking with Server Core” writes:
I’ll try to explain the ‘Next Generation IP Stack’ which was introduced with Windows Vista and is also present in Windows Server 2008, both in Full and Server Core installations. I’ll show you how to tweak down some default global TCP settings, that are part of what Microsoft calls the “Scalable Network Initiative”.
Last year (approximately) I found some compatibility problems with Windows 7 (Vista) and older Windows machines (and, of course, Linux machines). The summary of shell commands to use to completely disable “next generation” stuff are:
netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled netsh interface tcp set global chimney=disabled netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
To simply take a look at what’s going on use:
netsh interface tcp show global
The technical terms for future study are: Receive-Side Scaling, Chimney Offload and Receive Window Auto-Tuning.