By default hibernation is disabled on Windows 2008 server machines. However, a file called “hiberfil.sys” (equally sized to the amount of memory in the machine) is created in the root of the system volume. On a machine with 2GB of memory, this is not a big issue. However I discovered this on a VM with [...]
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Disable hibernation on multiple Windows 2008 servers using Windows Powershell
February 21st, 2011
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The case of the black Windows startup screen
June 21st, 2010
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Today I had a nice issue. One of the servers at work suddenly had a “black” Windows startup screen. It looked like this:
Extending Windows 2003 os disk using diskpart and VMware
March 10th, 2010
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I use this trick quite often for Windows 2003 machines (this is not needed on Windows 2008 machines, you can use diskpart directly here!) After time the OS disk grows out it’s free space, usually this happens due to Windows updates or logfiles. So, here’s how to extend an OS disk of a Windows 2003 [...]
