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Unlike Windows XP, mapping a network drive in Windows 7 is a nightmare. It is possible that during the mapping of a network drive, no matter how hard you try to enter your credentials or the drive is actually password-less, it still prompt you for a password repeatedly. This is annoying and is due to the security settings on Network Security. I shall introduce you two method to get around this annoying problem. *Do note that, for Windows 7 Home edition, the security setting is not available (RIDICULOUS isn’t it?), either you upgrade to Professional / Ultimate Edition or you could use Method 2 to achieve that (HURRAY!)

Method 1 (Windows 7 Professional / Ultimate Edition)

1. Under “Control Panel”, find “System and Security”
2. Open “Administrative Tools”
3. Double Click “Local Security Policy”
4. Expand “Local Policies”
5. Click “Security Options” and Scroll to find “Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level”
6. Choose “Send LM & NTLM, use NTLMv2 session security is negotiated” for the drop down.
7. Done. you can now map network drive as normal (like in XP)

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Fsutil is a command-line utility for performing file system related tasks,  such as displaying/managing file or drive properties, dismounting or extending a volume etc. Fsutil is a very powerful tool and is meant to be used by system administrator to perform advance operations. In this post, i will try to share my knowledge on fsutil to perform some simple yet useful tasks.

(*Do learn about what you are doing before executing a command.)

1. Creating a file of a specific size instantly, e.g. 1GB

# fsutil file createnew <filename> <filesize>
fsutil file createnew testfile 1073741824

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