Zsoldier's Tech Blog

Summary: Was looking for the method to do this, it’s pretty simple, but everyone had very detailed posts of other things they were doing (checks and balances).  Here is the key snippet to do it: 1: #This simply gets you the object to work with. You can replace 2: #'nameofcomputer' with a variable to target more systems. 3: $admin = [adsi]( "WinNT://" + nameofcomputer + "/administrator, user" ) 4:   5: #This invokes the set password method and changed the administrator password 6: #to Whatever1 7: $admin.psbase.invoke( "SetPassword" , "Whatever1" ) If you want more robust script that records data of it’s changes see here .

Summary: Ran into an interesting issue today.  Friend from Japan messaged me that they were having issues connecting to Google and YouTube.  I remoted into their computer and found something interesting.  Google and YouTube were resolving to IPv6 addresses. Hypothesis: I'm thinking Japan's ISP's are upgrading their networks to IPv6.  Still, I found it strange that even though Google and YouTube were resolving properly, the pages wouldn't render.  Only those people connected directly to their modem would likely see this issue, if you are behind a router, then this issue would likely not manifest. Resolution: Anyway, to resolve this issue just requires that IPv6 be unbound from the Network Adapter setting in Windows.  Below a sample screenshot from my Windows 7 VM.

ReadyBoost Tab in Properties of USB stick or other flash memory card. In case you didn't already know, Vista makes use of this feature called "ReadyBoost" where you can use a standard USB stick memory, or Memory card to augment your system's performance. Not all memory is compatible and must meet some performance specs which Vista tests for you upon insertion. Also many USB sticks now state whether they are ReadyBoost compliant. I've used it on my home system for about a good month now and I do notice a significant improvement in overall performance. It's like I added more RAM to my system without opening the case. Like most everywhere else, it's hard to substantiate in numbers the difference. I do wholeheartedly suggest trying it for yourself. I mean when you can buy a 8GB USB Stick from $12 - $25 , it's kind of hard not to try it. You can find out the details of ReadyBoost here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost http://www.microsoft.com/w...