Optimizing RDP for casual use

Optimizing RDP client/server for casual use. Make it use less bandwidth. Get higher throughput and adaptive transfers. Revisit Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post on optimizing RDP in Windows 7. I’ve been thinking of updating that post for some time, and now finally got around to it. Background Since sometime around 2000 I … Read more

Windows 2012 Storage Spaces not mounting after reinstall

After reinstalling Windows 2012 R2 Server you may find that the Storage Spaces virtual disks will not show up automatically. In fact you won’t even see them in “Computer Management”. The reason for this is that the server is not configured to use the old storage space setup. Authorize server for read-write to storage spaces First … Read more

Apache WebDAV setup compatible with Windows

Windows supports mounting WebDAV shares as drives. WebDAV is a HTTP protocol for file access used by for example SharePoint. It does however not support basic auth by default (basic auth sends password in cleartext, which is bad). It took me some troubleshooting to figure it out so I thought I’d share my results. You’ll … Read more

Should I defrag my SSD?

The answer is: “Yes!” and “No, never!” or somewhere between. SSD disks has overcome the physical limitations of traditional harddisks. It is actually not a harddisk any more because it doesn’t have a disk. Traditionally when you access a fragmented file the data is scattered around on the disk so the read heads has to … Read more

Disable Windows 7 Sound Card Jack Sensing

Windows attempts to auto detect any changes to the plugs in your sound card. That doesn’t work well with my sound card (X-Fi something) so the speakers keep falling in and out randomly. Solution: The sound card drivers are located under the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Search for “EnableDynamicDevices” (located under GlobalSettings somewhere) and set it … Read more

Optimizing virtual machines

At work we use a lot of virtual machines running in Virtual PC, VirtualBox and vmware, I’ll call them VPC. Basically we set up a VPC with a development environment for each customer, and thereby keeping a clean development environment which can be passed between developers easily. There are many advantages in doing it this … Read more

Antivirus performance test

This performance test of different antivirus applications is actually a good read. There are some difference between the worst and the best. I was especially surprised to see that the antivirus software could make a simple file copy take up to twice as long. So maybe disabling the antivirus now and then isn’t a bad … Read more