Boot Winxp Fast

Follow the following steps

1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.

Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts

First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.

But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:

shutdown -r -t 01 -c "Rebooting your PC"

Double-clicking on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the message "Rebooting your PC." The shutdown command includes a variety of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and describes their use.

I use this technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use:

shutdown -s -t 03 -c "Bye Bye m8!"

shutdown -r -t 03 -c "Ill be back m8 ;)!"

Switch

What it does

-s

Shuts down the PC.

-l

Logs off the current user.

-t nn

Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.

-c "messagetext"

Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.

-f

Forces any running applications to shut down.

-r

Reboots the PC.

Identifying your WWN id's via ILO

For the storage department to be able to zone up one or more LUNs to a given ESX host, they need three pieces of information:

• ESX host name (FQDN)
• WWN id's of the HBA's
• If new LUN, then the size of the LUN. If you're zoning existing LUNs, then they need to know the storage group that the host should be added to (this can be done by providing hostname of one or two existing hosts that already have that zoning).

The WWN id can be identified both from the VI client (Configuration -> Storage Adapters) and from the service console. But this can only be done after ESX has been installed.

Sometimes, it can be useful to be able to fetch WWN info before the host has been installed. This way, the storage department can begin zoning right away.

To identify WWN id's from ILO

• Log into ILO either directly or via the blade enclosure
• Go to the Information tab of your server
• WWN id can be found under the info box for your HBA (see screendump below)

How Do U See Hidden Files, Using DOS

at command prompt just type
dir /ah

if the list is too long u can use
dir /ah/p/w

Howto: Installing VMware tools in a Linux VM

Installing VMware tools in a Linux VM take a few more steps than on a Windows VM. This is done the following way (tested on VMware Workstation 7 and Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 VM appliance).

• install the guest OS (click here to see if guest OS is supported)
• to exit the gui to simulate no X server: sudo service gdm stop and then alt+f1 to get console
• right click the VM and choose install/update VMware tools. This will connect the cdrom with the VMware tools ISO file (if files are not already available, they will be downloaded) but you still need to mount the cdrom manually: sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom (if folder don't exist, create it first)
• copy the tar file to /tmp folder and untar it: tar -xvf VMware-tools-vXX.tar.gz
• ls to the untar'ed folder and run vmware-install.pl: sudo ./vmware-install.pl
• start the gui: sudo service gdm start or simply startx
• verify that VMware tools are running: sudo ps -auxwww 'pipe-symbol' grep vm (look for /usr/bin/vmtoolsd and you will also find the balloon driver vmmemctl). You can also check if the vmtools startup script has been put into the startup folder /etc/rc0.d/

link to VMware KB article on installing VMtools (alternatively this KB article)

Update 2011.10.28: When installing VMware tools in Linux Redhat Enterprise 5.6 the installation failed as it needed gcc and some kernel developer packages. I ran the following commands and then reran the tools installation again after ./vmware-install.pl:

yum install gcc
yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-xen-devel