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Windows 7 : Configuring Hardware (part 2) - Installing and Updating Device Drivers & Driver Signing

Device drivers are the controlling code actually interfacing the hardware components with the operating system. The commands are specific to each piece of hardware, and there may be different commands, memory locations, or actions even within the same type of hardware.

Windows 7 : Configuring Hardware (part 1) - Device Stage & Using Device Manager

Device Manager in Windows 7 works the same way it did in Windows Vista and XP. Device Manager is designed to display information about the hardware installed on your computer and as an interface to add and configure new hardware.

Windows 7 : Scripting Windows with PowerShell - Creating PowerShell Scripts

Running individual command at the PowerShell console is fine, but if you have commands you run regularly, or if you want to combine multiple commands into a single package, you need to create PowerShell scripts.

Windows 7 : Scripting Windows with PowerShell - Scripting Objects

Scripting with PowerShell is really about scripting objects, so the most fundamental skills you need to master PowerShell scripting are those that enable you to work with and use objects.

Windows 7 : Scripting Windows with PowerShell - Running PowerShell Cmdlets

PowerShell 2.0 is positively bursting at the seams with well over 200 cmdlets. However, the fact is that most of those cmdlets are quite obscure and are unlikely to be of interest to most of us.

Windows 7 : Scripting Windows with PowerShell - Getting Started with PowerShell

To get PowerShell up and running, select Start, type power, and then select Windows PowerShell in the search results. Windows 7 starts a new PowerShell console session, and displays it in the Windows PowerShell window.

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Programming the Windows Management Instrumentation Service

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a powerful tool that gives you access to just about every aspect of Windows Home Server and of remote computers.

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Scripting Internet Explorer

The script begins by creating instances of the InternetExplorer and WScript Shell objects. The Navigate method displays a page, and then turns off the toolbar, status bar, and menu bar

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Programming the WshNetwork Object

WshNetwork is a generic name for an object that enables you to work with various aspects of the Windows network environment. You can determine the computer name and username, you can enumerate the mapped network drives, you can map new network drives, and more.

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Programming the WshShell Object (part 2)

WshShell is a generic name for a powerful object that enables you to query and interact with various aspects of the Windows shell. You can display information to the user, run applications, create shortcuts, work with the Registry, and control Windows environment variables

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Programming the WshShell Object (part 1)

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Programming the WScript Object

The WScript object represents the Windows Script Host applications. You use this object to get and set certain properties of the scripting host, as well as to access two other objects: WshArguments and WshScriptEngine .

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Programming Objects

Every programmable object has a defining set of characteristics. These characteristics are the object’s properties, and they control the appearance and position of the object.

Scripting Windows 7 with WSH : Scripts and Script Execution

Scripts are simple text files that you create using Notepad or some other text editor. You can use a word processor such as WordPad to create scripts, but you must make sure that you save these files using the program’s Text Only document type

Adding Macs to Your Windows 7 Network : Letting Windows Computers See Your Mac Shares

The techniques you’ve seen so far have assumed that you want to access a Windows shared network folder from your Mac. However, if your Mac has data of interest to Windows users, you’ll need to set things up so that those Windows users can see that data.

Adding Macs to Your Windows 7 Network : Using a Mac to Make a Remote Desktop Connection to Windows 7

Mac-based Remote Desktop connections work best when you use the IP address of the Windows host PC

Adding Macs to Your Windows 7 Network : Connecting to a Windows Shared Folder

Mac OS X support for connecting to shared Windows folders is turned on by default, so connecting your Mac to a Windows PC on your network and selecting a shared folder requires no prep work on your part.

Adding Macs to Your Windows 7 Network : Connecting to the Windows Network

If the Mac is near your network’s router (or switch, depending on your configuration), and your Mac has an Ethernet port (the MacBook Air, for example, doesn’t come with built-in Ethernet), run a network cable from the Mac to the device.

Windows 7 : Controlling and Customizing Your Website (part 5) - Viewing the Server Logs

After your web server is chugging along and serving pages to all and sundry, you might start to wonder which pages are popular with surfers and which ones are languishing. You might also want to know whether users are getting errors when they try to access your site.

Windows 7 : Controlling and Customizing Your Website (part 4) - Disabling Anonymous Access

You may have content that you want to restrict to people who have user accounts on Windows 7. In that case, you need to disable anonymous access for the website and switch to basic authentication, which means IIS prompts each user for a username and password before allowing access to the site.

Windows 7 : Controlling and Customizing Your Website (part 3) - Working Without a Default Document

Using a default document is usually a good idea because it enables users to access your site without knowing the name of any file. However, for security reasons, you might want to allow access to the site only to users who know a specific filename on the site.

Windows 7 : Controlling and Customizing Your Website (part 2) - Setting the Website’s Default Document

For your own websites, you can add new default documents (for example, default.html and index.asp), remove existing default documents, and change the priority of the default documents.

Windows 7 : Controlling and Customizing Your Website (part 1)

By default, when you start Windows 7, the World Wide Web Publishing Service starts automatically, and that service automatically starts your website

Windows 7 : Adding Folders and Files to the Default Website (part 3) - Adding a Folder to the Default Website

Adding a folder to the Windows 7 default website is not all that different from adding a file. That is, you can create a new subfolder within the wwwroot folder, or copy or move an existing folder and paste it within wwwroot.

Windows 7 : Adding Folders and Files to the Default Website (part 2) - Changing the Default Website Home Page

One of the first things you’ll probably want to do with your new website is change the home page. To do that, you need to create a new HTML (or other web content) file in the wwwroot folder and give the file one of the following names

Windows 7 : Adding Folders and Files to the Default Website (part 1) - Setting Permissions on the Default Website Folder

Somewhat annoyingly, Windows 7 makes it difficult for you to modify the contents of the wwwroot folder. For example, if you copy a file to the folder, you need to enter your User Account Control (UAC) credentials to allow the copy

Turning Windows 7 into a Web Server : Understanding the Default Website

The default website set up by IIS isn’t much to look at. That’s okay because a bit later you’ll be adding plenty of your own content to the site

Turning Windows 7 into a Web Server : Accessing Your Website

The problem is that the Windows Firewall on the Windows 7 machine hasn’t been configured to allow data traffic through the World Wide Web Services used by IIS. For your website to work from any remote location, you need to set up an exception for the World Wide Web Services in Windows Firewall.

Windows 7 : Installing Internet Information Services

A web server is a computer that accepts and responds to remote requests for pages and other web content that are stored on the server. Most of these requests come from remote users running Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or some other web browser.

Windows 7 : Using Virtual Private Network Connections

In the remote connections you’ve seen so far, the security exists mostly at the connection point. That is, you set up usernames with strong passwords, and no one can access your dial-up or Remote Desktop connection without entering the correct logon data.