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Converting Windows Error Codes To Something More Friendly

I can never remember how to do this, so I always end up looking it up.  Therefore, I am posting it here partly for me as a reference, but also in case anyone else finds it useful :-)   Sometime the error codes that are returned by Microsoft Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:30 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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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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Putting iexplore.exe on a diet

I have gotten very used, very quickly, to the excellent tabbed browsing feature that was introduced with Internet Explorer 7.  This feature was tweaked a fair bit for Internet Explorer 8, but the most noticeable change is that now each tab opens Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:19 AM by Daniel Oxley | 2 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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Creating Your Own Search Provider in Internet Explorer

For me, this is possibly one of the most overlooked, but invaluable, features of Internet Explorer 7 and 8.  I actually only discovered it a few days ago, but I now use it pretty much daily. First introduced with Internet Explorer 7, the Instant Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:08 AM by Daniel Oxley | 2 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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Saving The World, Printer Ink First

Saving something seems to to be the big thing in I.T. at moment, which is never a bad thing. The current big thing is the Green Computing initiatives, particularly with the prominence now of virtual computing and power saving features in new operating Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:08 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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PowerShell Script ExecutionPolicy

Seeing as PowerShell is included by default in Windows 7, and also because you get the PowerShell icon on your quick launch bar by default, I try to use that over the de rigueur cmd.exe command interpreter that we have all had since the dawn of time.  Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:59 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 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

Safely setting autologon for Windows

When configuring Microsoft Windows to auto-logon, most people just modify the following keys in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:16 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 doesn’t have to ignore the MBSA if you don’t want it to

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser (MBSA) is an excellent free tool by Microsoft that provides a simple and easy-to-use method of identifying common security misconfigurations for your Microsoft Windows computers.  The current version (MBSA Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 9:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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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

Network Issues prevent certain Installations (otherwise known as 0xc000000f)

I have recently been setting up a Hyper-V laboratory for a Windows 7 project.  I had all the machines installed, and I was configuring them using an RDP connection rather than using VMConnect (the reason is that it is nice and easy to get access Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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