Few things which you may find helpful!!

Install Windows 7 from USB Stick (No more burning on DVD Media)

2009-05-15T16:49:35Z

Windows 7 RC has come out and most of you must be looking at possibilities of installing and playing with the new gen Windows OS as I was till yesterday! A big pain in this entire process is first download the image from the site and then burn it on a DVD. Fortunately Windows 7 removed one of those pains and allowed us to install directly from a USB Stick. A very nice article is already published on the same which you might have already seen ( TechNet Magazine ). I tested the same and it’s really...(read more)

Support Becomes Easier

2009-05-13T21:08:42Z

We made the troubleshooting support access much easier for our Partners and we are constantly updating our Partners about the same. If you don’t have the details yet, please follow the below steps: Go to https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx Sign in with your .net credentials. Select the Product for which you are setting up the case. Select the option “ Submit Online ” Accept the agreement. Complete the Product selection/confirmation wizard. Select the option which says that “ Professional...(read more)

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support for Windows Vista SP1

2008-07-08T18:01:20Z

Free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for Windows Vista, but only for Service Pack 1 (SP1). This support for SP1 is valid until March 18, 2009. Chat and e-mail support is available only in the United States and Canada. Some issues may require more advanced support for which there is a charge. For all other Windows Vista issues, visit the Help and Support site at http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?Gprid=11732 , and then choose your product. Start Email Support...(read more)

Microsoft made Hotfix available online

2008-07-08T17:51:32Z

Do you spend lot of time waiting in the Microsoft Phone Support Queue just to request a Hotfix? Forget those old days...yes now you can view and download the Hotfix package directly from Microsoft website and you need not to call Microsoft Support for these. Lets see how: 1) Go to http://support.microsoft.com/ and search for the KB with appropriate KB number. 2) Look into the top most part of the KB details page: 3) Click on View and Request hotfix downloads . 4) Approve the Agreement...(read more)

Where is Vista SP1 MUI Packs?

2008-07-08T17:37:27Z

Ok…till now I got tons of responses for my previous blog post on Vista RTM MUI . I know everyone is looking for Vista SP1 MUI but where are they? So to address all those asks...here is what we have for you: 1) If you are installing Windows Vista SP1 All Language Pak on a Vista RTM box where there is a MUI pack already installed, you need not to look for SP1 MUI pack as the above patch will upgrade all installed MUI to SP1. 2) If you are planning to buy a Slipstreamed Windows Vista SP1 media,...(read more)

BitLocker!!#$?! What all downloads are available...

2008-05-04T21:53:25Z

BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool: Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption is a feature that encrypts one or more volumes (drives) attached to your computer and that can use a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to verify the integrity of early startup components. Because BitLocker encrypts the entire volume of data, it requires the computer to be configured with an active partition, used for startup, which is separate from the operating system volume. This is called a “split-load configuration.”...(read more)

This is again good to have!! All updates included in Windows Vista SP1

2008-02-28T00:25:54Z

KBArticle Title Issue Type Component Link 843289 Proxy server settings are not set correctly in Internet Explorer after you download a proxy script that uses chunk encoding Hotfix Desktop Technologies http://support.microsoft.com/kb/843289 870853 Office 2003 and 2007 Office documents open read-only in Internet Explorer Hotfix Base Technologies http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870853 884534 FIX: Internet Explorer may stop responding when you set the "display" style for the DIV HTML element...(read more)

Hoolala...One Step Download for MUI Packs of Windows Vista

2008-02-28T00:08:16Z

Vista Ultimate x86 MUI Language Packs Vista Ultimate x64 MUI Language Packs Danish language pack German language pack English language pack Spanish language pack Finnish language pack French language pack Italian language pack Japanese language pack Korean language pack Norwegian language pack Dutch language pack Portuguese (Brazil) language pack Russian language pack Swedish language pack Chinese (simplified) language pack Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) language pack Arabic language pack Bulgarian language...(read more)

Shipping a High Quality Vista Service Pack 1

2008-02-07T01:09:43Z

Wow...I really like this and I think most of you are also aware of this by now. But still wanted to share as at-least I was waiting for it from long time :) I was using Windows Vista SP1 from last 3 weeks but February 4th I saw this link somewhere in www.microsoft.com Windows Vista SP1 released to manufacturing Windows Vista SP1 will start being available to the public in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers. This is just awesome.....just adding a snapshot of it...you can go...(read more)

Windows Vista vs Legacy Windows OS - Post 4

2008-01-31T02:39:43Z

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Windows Vista vs Legacy Windows OS - Post 3

2008-01-31T02:35:54Z

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Windows Vista vs Legacy Windows OS - Post 2

2008-01-31T02:32:58Z

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Windows Vista vs Legacy Windows OS - Post 1

2008-01-31T02:14:30Z

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Windows XP SP3 Features Included

2008-01-30T22:39:47Z

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What Is In Windows XP Service Pack 3

2008-01-30T22:25:44Z

Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes, and select out-of-band releases. For example, the service pack includes functionality previously released as updates, such as the Microsoft® Management Console (MMC) 3.0 and the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 (MSXML6). Microsoft is not adding significant functionality from newer versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista, to Windows XP through XP SP3. For instance, Windows XP SP3 does...(read more)