Windows 10 Start Menu Behavior Rationalized
Buckle up for another Master Class from Jacques Bensimon. Some deep dives into the Windows Start Menu behavior and some great tips on how to accomplish the customizations…
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VMware App Volumes and FSLogix container conflicts resolved.
I have a client where we have implemented a full VMware Horizon VDI solution. This solution consists of VMware Horizon, User Environment Manager and App Volumes (along with…
A Brief History of User Profiles …and an Idea for Microsoft!
Here is a great piece written by Jacques Bensimon. Before getting into it, let me stress that this is not a survey of all available (native and third-party)…
IPM’s new Remote Session Super Switcher utility
Here is the issue: Users can easily get lost when running (and trying to navigate among) multiple full-screen VDI desktops, be they Horizon View, Citrix, Microsoft RDP, or…
Citrix VDA Setup: What does “Create a master image” actually do?
Written by Jacques Bensimon: Ever wonder how selecting the below “Create a Master Image” option during VDA setup actually changes the installation? Well, I did wonder, and all…
Controlling Windows Explorer’s Thread Count (new utility)
Jacques Bensimon sent over this new IPM tool. Enjoy! As you may be able to tell from this old Classic Shell review, I’m no fan of Microsoft’s recent…
Troubleshooting Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) Stalling at 50%
Here is another great write-up by Jacques Bensimon. On a recent occasion at a client, after building and customizing a Windows Server 2016 RDS image (on VMware ESXi,…
Putty Putty Putty & Windows Terminal
Sam Jacobs sent over a note earlier this week to let us know that Putty has a new version available. Time stamped March 16th 2019, version 0.71 includes…
Citrix VDA User Profiles: The Mysterious "…"
If you’ve ever noticed and wondered what those “…” on the end of the Desktop & Personal entries under “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders” in Regedit (which disappear if you…