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7 second demos – dugg!

Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:06 PM by drey
before windows 7 came out we worked on being able to explain and demonstrate 7 features in 7 minutes – these 7 second demos are great and really get to the point.  i’m going to have to consider a couple of my own!  i came across these on digg, Read More...
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sony vaio cw – available with fresh start

Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 7:29 AM by drey
this is what i’ve been waiting for – an oem that provides windows 7 without all the trialware that if you didn’t order you probably don’t want.  this morning i was checking out the sony vaio cw (which looks like a great notebook) and noticed besides Read More...
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boot from vhd on windows xp!!!

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:10 PM by drey
finally! i found instructions on how to setup boot from vhd on windows xp so that you can start windows 7. if you join the chicago windows user group on live.com, you can learn how as well! this requires windows 7 enterprise or ultimate and you have to Read More...
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a portable computer story

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:45 AM by drey
i’ve not been a big fan of netbooks primarily because of three things:  1) screen resolution, 2) keyboards and 3) processor limitations.  i have written before about my gateway lt series netbook , but found a dell inspiron 11z that appears to Read More...
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clubhouse.microsoft.com

Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:18 AM by drey
i just joined the windows clubhouse and noticed a number of great posts and a couple challenges – check it out at clubhouse.microsoft.com and sign up today!  two that caught my attention were an apple bootcamp 3.0 post (about support for x64 and Read More...
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applocker on windows 7 professional

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:33 PM by drey
a question came up today at one of the it pro windows 7 sessions today about applocker - whether you can setup an applocker policy on windows 7 professional. here's the answer - straight from the windows 7 professional help for applocker (you can setup Read More...
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did you know: show windows stacked, cascaded or side by side

Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 7:09 PM by drey
someone asked me if there were ways to vertically maximize more than two windows using aero snap (snap one window to the left hand side of the screen and a second to the right hand side dragging the windows or using the windows key + left and right arrow Read More...
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tekken 6 – coming out later this month for xbox

Posted Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:12 PM by drey
it’s been an entire year, but later this month tekken 6 comes out for the xbox 360.  since then i’ve added a second xbox to our home, begun watching netflix movies instantly on them, created my own custom avatar and gone back to mainly wireless game Read More...
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on the road branch office

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 10:29 AM by drey
here’s another thing that i’ve taken for granted for the past three years using windows vista – secure wireless access even in public.  panera is my favorite place to find it and as you can see by the screen shot below even as i post this blog entry, Read More...
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foxit reader

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:55 PM by drey
foxit software has one of my must have installations after the many installs and upgrades i've done of windows 7 over the past year. i typically have occasional need to open a pdf file, and foxit reader does that job well, but what i really like is the Read More...
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problem steps recorder – help someone out of a jam

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 9:12 PM by drey
at our thursday loadfest we had a user that had the magnifier starting every time their computer restarted (kind of annoying until you realize how awesome the new windows 7 magnifier is!), so i figured out where it got configured and wanted to send instructions Read More...
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another install fest (thursday), top windows 7 utilities and 3 more installations today (friday)

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 10:42 AM by drey
thursday my counterpart dan orum led our second install fest, i did an internal tips and tricks session and then dan presented at the chicago windows user group on the top windows 7 utilities. we'll post the top utilities at our cwug site - cwug.groups.live.com Read More...
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creating a vhd to boot from

Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:11 PM by drey
i met with a customer and when we began discussing boot from vhd they had a lot of interest.  i pointed them to this blog post about boot from vhd , but as i reviewed it i remembered a couple other things like how to create a vhd from a wim.  Read More...
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gateway lt series netbook – now running windows 7

Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:26 PM by drey
over the weekend i blogged about a great netbook deal – and currently it’s exclusively at best buy .  the lt3114u or lt3103u both have a 250 gb hard drive and 2 gb of ram.  i’ve got the cherry red one and it’s now running windows 7 home premium. Read More...
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best netbook so far

Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:36 AM by drey
i’ve become a big fan of netbooks lately.  they are light and inexpensive and some come with reasonable hard drives (160 gb in many models) but up until recently i’ve had three complaints – 1) windows xp home 2) limited ram and 3) resolution.  Read More...
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