Windows 7 failing to copy large files through network

I have faced problems copying large files (several hundreds megs) over a Windows Network between two Windows 7 boxes. During the copy, the process just freeze forever, and when trying to cancel it, it just tries forever without success.

At first I tough it was a antivirus/firewall issue, but disabling the software on both machines [...]

Fixing WMI Service (root\cimv2 namespace missing)

I was working on a VBScript code that uses the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to query the running processes on the local machine, something like this:

strComputer = "." strProcess2Kill = "something.exe"   Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = " & [...]

Windows 7 bug affecting Subversion

There is a bug on Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) that relates to corrupted files error messages and affects several SVN’s operations (like commit and update). The detailed error message you can get is something similar to:

svn: Can’t move ‘[repo]\.svn\tmp\entries’ to ‘[repo]\.svn\entries’: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

And you [...]

Reinstalar Grub luego de instalar Windows

Luego de haber instalado Windows 7 hace algunos meses, en un equipo donde tenía tanto el Windows XP como Ubuntu 9.04, quedó inaccesible este último. Esto debido a que el instalador de Windows no reconoce otro sistema operativo que no sea propio de Microsoft (a diferencia de Linux).

Se debe tomar en cuenta NO utilizar [...]