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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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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

Best Practices for Windows 7 Migrations Using Microsoft Application Virtualization

There is a webcast this month that should be of interest to anyone interested in using application virtualisation, particularly if you are migrating to Windows 7.  The date of the webcast is Monday the 26th of October 2009 at 12pm, but be aware that Read More...
Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 11:56 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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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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Greater Internet Dickwad Theory

I stumbled across the below picture the other day and I think that it is so true that it is worth linking to here :-)   I have always said that it is amusing how big people’s egos (I was going to put something else here, but I censored it) can grow Read More...
Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 4:21 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 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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It seems that getting stronger wood than Superman has never been easier…

It always amazes me the sheer levels of SPAM emails that are sent (and I have the misfortune to receive), but thankfully Outlook 2007 does a pretty good job of filtering them all out for me so that all I need to do is just empty the Junk E-Mail folder Read More...
Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 9:09 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

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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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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