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Ooops, that’s not right…

I have been asked twice this week if this is possible and if so how to do it, so I guess either the information is not readily available on the Internet, or the two people who asked me just couldn’t be bothered to look it up...!   I’m sure you’ve Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:51 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Wallpapering your Windows 7 computer

As some of you may know, certain countries have personalisation packs for Windows 7 that are activated on during the installation of the operating system, depending on the regional settings you first set.  So, if you tell Windows 7 setup that you Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 11:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Benchmarking Windows 7

A very common request that clients make when starting a Windows deployment project is that we must reliably and accurately demonstrate that Windows Vista or Windows 7 is worth upgrading to from Windows XP, especially if the purchase of new hardware is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:36 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Quicker Access to Windows 7 Virtual PC settings

To edit the settings of a virtual computer using Virtual PC in Windows 7 requires the opening of the Virtual PC console, selecting the virtual machine you wish to edit, and then pressing the ‘Settings’ button, as shown in the screenshot below. In order Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:10 PM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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Application Installs, be gone!

As a follow up to my earlier post about modularising my computer, I wanted to add a couple of points which I either missed out, or did not explain so well :-S The first, which is a common question, is how to install Windows 7 into a VHD file without having Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:00 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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IKEA-fying my computer

I have had this blog post in the pipeline for a while now, but I have been waiting until all the pieces fell into place, to make it something actually worthwhile to read! Be warned though, this is a rather long blog post – but please stay awake! Having Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:50 AM by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments

Faster Creation of Virtual Machines

I recently noticed a blog post on TechNet about a new tool that was released on CodePlex.  WIM2VHD is a command-line tool allows you to create sysprepped VHD images from any Windows 7 installation source (and I suspect Windows Server 2008 R2 as well) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:55 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Restarting the Microsoft File Transfer Manager

Unless you have been hiding under a rock this week you’ll no doubt be aware that the beta versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 both were released on TechNet and MSDN.  If you’ve tried downloading them as well then you’ll know that they Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:58 AM by Daniel Oxley | 2 Comments
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