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did you know: installing the zune 3.0 software without a zune?

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 8:14 AM by drey
almost a year ago we had a portable media session at cwug (chicago windows user group) which was a lot of fun.  we had people bring their archos media players, ipods, psps and zunes.  when we talked about the zune, one of the questions was do Read More...
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did you know: you can shrink a hard drive from the command line (and in the windows vista/7 setup program?)

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:44 AM by drey
friday i posted information about dynamically shrinking a partition from your windows vista or windows 7 installation (making room for another operating system) but what if you are already running windows xp and would like to take advantage of this feature?  Read More...
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boot from vhd – setup windows 7 64 bit from 32 bit

Posted Friday, June 05, 2009 9:21 AM by drey
boot from vhd is a great new feature of windows 7 enterprise.  it allows you to start an operating system configured in vhd file.  i have been using this to run 64 bit builds of windows 7 on a system that is natively running the 32 bit version.  Read More...
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to netbook or not to netbook - that is the question

Posted Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:52 PM by drey
this evening i was looking at the various options - around $300-350 for netbooks. netbooks are interesting because they can run either windows xp, windows vista or windows 7 beta and they are larger than my current phone to make typing and using them Read More...
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dr. bob - the value of my time/15 more installations (somewhat automated)

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:46 PM by drey
i was thinking of someone who taught me the value of my time when i was much younger (and had time to spare!) today as i setup another 15 computers with windows 7 at work. "dr. bob" as he was known to me, was technical, an entertaining presenter, and Read More...
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first multi touch notebook...

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:00 AM by drey
...is from hp! i've got the tz1000 tablet which also allows touch, but the hp tx2z series supports multitouch. in a growing trend, it also can be purchased with the 64 bit edition of windows vista home premium or ultimate. it appears to be the same size Read More...
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builds 3 and 4

Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 1:44 PM by drey
my first two builds of windows 7 in one way brought me back to when windows vista was in beta (downloading the bits, burning dvds, waiting while the installation runs), but since windows 7 is building upon the foundation that windows vista sp1 and windows Read More...
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