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To resize a partition with Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008, follow these steps:

Be sure to back up any valuable information, because there is a slight chance that data can be lost when dealing with partitions.

1) Click on the Start menu

2) Right click on Computer and click on Manage.

3) Open up the Storage category and click on Disk Management on the left hand panel.

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Tags: partition, resize, windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Windows 2008, by default has all ICMP requests turned off. This of course can cause issues with ping requests or using any type of monitors that ping the server for heartbeats. However turning this option on isn’t exactly how it was in Windows 2003 and it’s not located in the Windows firewall settings.  To enable it, you have to goto the Windows firewall with advanced security settings, which is in the administrative tools section.
To get to the Windows firewall with advanced security, you’ll need to goto the control panel and the administrative tools. You can also goto to the administrative tools directly if there is a link in your programs bar.

Once there , look inside of the inbound ruleset and scroll down to the file and printer sharing. You’ll need to right click and enable the “FIle and Printer Sharing (echo request – ICMPv4-in) rule.

This will enable the rule and it will no longer bt grayed out (it will be green now).

You can also enable thiss by running the following command from the Windows command prompt.

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

To disable incoming ICMP requests, type the following.

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable

Tags: firewall, ICMP, incoming, ping, requests, windows 2008

To disable Windows 7 / Vista from downloading automatic updates, follow these simple steps.

Open Start menu, right-click on Computer and click Properties. This will open System dialog box that will show basic information about your computer. On the left sidebar, under See also heading, you will find Windows Update. Clicking it will bring you to the Windows Update dialog box, now on the left sidebar click on Change Settings. You will now see a window that will look like this,

You will notice that Windows has enabled option as default, to disable it, simply select Never check for updates and you are done.

Note: Microsoft recommends that you must keep your windows up-to-date in order to remain secure. And I recommend the same, my computer is always up-to-date, this is one reason I never get attacked by any kind of virus.

Tags: automatic updates, disable, windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista