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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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Anti-Virus Software, That's Free!

I am probably the last Microsoft blogger to actually get round to writing something about this… but hey, I have been busy! Microsoft recently released to the public their free anti-virus solution, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). I had been trialling Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:27 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

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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Application Compatibility List for Windows 7

A very common misconception that I am hearing regarding Windows 7 is that Microsoft has removed all of the problems that Windows Vista had caused with application compatibility. While it is true that certain features of Windows 7 have been improved/tweaked, Read More...
Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 12:29 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Laptop Hunters and Apple

I have to confess that I never got to see any of the advertisements that Microsoft has been running (I saw a couple on YouTube out of curiosity, but never on TV) where they give something like $1500 to a person and tell them to buy the best computer that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:25 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 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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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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Yet Another Core Configurator

In the true spirit of Linux, it seems that everybody is re-inventing the wheel – because they can.  So, just as your favourite Linux distro had 9,999 different versions of the same basic calculator tool (but all written by different people), it seems Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:38 AM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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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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Kicking the tyres

Want to try out Windows Server 2008? Or perhaps Exchange Server 2007? You can download complete virtual machine environments for a whole list of Microsoft products, free of charge. Check out the Test Drive program here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738372.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 6:44 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Just fix it for me please…

Articles on the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) sometimes contain pretty straightforward solutions, such as changing a single value in the registry or running a simple command.  They are often so simple that I always wondered why Windows could not Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:33 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008

I came across the following document the other day that contains plenty of useful tuning parameters and settings that you can tweak in order to improve performance in Windows Server 2008.  The nice thing is that each setting and its effect (or side-effect) Read More...
Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 2:51 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Project Highlander

Having better ‘green credentials’ than your competitor seems to be the in thing at the moment. You’ll often see a company saying that they will plant X number of trees for each purchase you make, etc. Of course, this is always a good thing and anything Read More...
Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 11:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments

Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista (SP2) has been a hot topic recently.  While Microsoft has not released an immense amount of information regarding this upcoming important update, some interesting stuff has appeared ( here and here , for example). Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:59 AM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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