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April 2009 - Posts

Windows 7 – Release Candidate availability / Office 2007 – SP2 Availability

Good Morning folks!  More news on Windows 7 and the availability of the official Release Candidate.  We now have some dates that we can share with you.  The RC build is slated to be available for download by MSDN / TechNet subscribers this Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments
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Windows 7: Install from USB

Hey folks – more Windows 7 goodness today.  With the Windows 7 Release Candidate on the horizon (no, I still don’t have a date or a build number to share) many more folks will be testing out Windows 7.  In testing scenarios where you may wind Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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Windows 7: The Upgrade Experience

Good morning folks.  Many of you are probably running a build of Windows 7 on one of your machines.  If so, then you need to read the latest blog post over at the Engineering Windows 7 blog regarding the Upgrade Experience.  With the Release Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Terminal Services and Graphically Intensive Applications

Hello AskPerf, my name is Subheet Rastogi and I am a Technical Lead on the Performance team in Bangalore.  Today, we’re going to take a quick look at issues that typically arise when using graphic intensive applications or media streaming in a Remote Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Managing the System Managed Page File

Hello again AskPerf!  Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mike Morales, one of our Escalation Engineers here in Irving, TX.  For those of you who have been with AskPerf for a while, Mike wrote a post for us a few months ago on UMDH.EXE .  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Performance Analysis of Logs Tool (PAL)

Today’s post comes to us from Priyanka Rotti and Sudha N – two of our Support Engineers on the Performance team. Reviewing Performance Monitor Logs can be one of the most daunting tasks for an administrator, especially if it’s not something that you do Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Two Minute Drill: New Commands for Old Tasks in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Good Morning AskPerf!  Blake Morrison here once again with a quick note on some new ways to do familiar Control Panel tasks.  Prior to Windows Vista, if you wanted to launch a Control Panel applet using command-line syntax, you could simply Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Who Moved My /3GB?

Last week, while planning blog posts for April, it occurred to me that although we had provided information on using the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file on Windows Server 2003, we hadn’t followed up with a post about how to implement this same functionality Read More...
Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 7 Comments
 
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