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Friday, November 06, 2009 10:06 AM

The point of Windows 7 libraries and search

In my previous post I mentioned a correspondent – his name is Andy – who’d written asking the question “What the hell is the point of libraries and if you have the name of the person whose idea they were please post it for summary flaming” He made another
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Friday, October 16, 2009 4:02 PM

Microsoft Security Essentials

Somehow, in all the other activities of the last couple of weeks I missed the release of Microsoft Security Essentials which is our FREE* anti-virus / anti-malware product aimed at home users. (We have the more business oriented Forefront Client Security
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:46 AM

On Scanners, Cameras and their USB modes, and lifting the lid on how they can be scripted.

Long title, and I’m afraid I’ve been on a bit of a voyage of discovery about some of the things Windows 7 (and Vista) can do with photos and first thing I wanted to cover here was something I’ve been trying to ignore: Cameras have two USB modes. In “Mass
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Monday, September 14, 2009 4:09 PM

How to view RAW image files on Windows 7 (and Windows Vista).

My photography posts appear to be a bit like busses. I don’t make one for a while then two together … Some while back I wrote a tale of two Codecs bemoaning the patchy support for RAW files. Basically we (Microsoft) don’t provide codecs for anything other
Posted by jamesone | 4 Comments
Friday, July 24, 2009 12:16 PM

A tale of two codecs. Or how not to be a standard.

I’ve just bought a new digital SLR camera. Being a dyed in the wool Pentax person, I’ve upgraded to their new K7. Being fairly serious about (some of) my photography I shoot quite a lot in RAW format.(In case you didn’t know higher end digital cameras
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:52 PM

How to activate Windows from a script (even remotely).

I have been working on some PowerShell recently to handle the initial setup of a new machine, and I wanted to add the activation. If you do this from a command line it usually using the Software Licence manager script ( slMgr.vbs ) but this is just a
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, May 01, 2009 4:20 PM

Easy transfer is not a sign of weakness

Someone from the office (no names, no pack drill) told me they had read my post from yesterday where I mentioned Windows Easy Transfer.  They felt that it might not be quite the done thing for a technical person to use it but since I was using it
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Friday, May 01, 2009 11:49 AM

Clarifying: the new virtual PC, Windows XP mode for Windows 7, and MED-V

There is an interview with Scott Woodgate,  published as  press release on press pass   entitled Helping Small Businesses With Windows 7 Professional and Windows XP Mode. After starting to speculate about this a little too soon, I want
Posted by jamesone | 7 Comments
Monday, March 16, 2009 11:38 AM

A day out with Divers

I spent yesterday at the DIVERSE – the South Eastern area conference for BSAC (the British Sub Aqua Club) : officially I was there to speak about why Windows Vista (and 7) are so good at handling pictures. Unofficially as a diver (though not a BSAC member)
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:24 AM

How to manage the Windows firewall settings with PowerShell

I mentioned recently that I’m writing a PowerShell configuration tool for the R2 edition of Hyper-V server and Windows server core. One of the key parts of that is managing the firewall settings…. Now… I don’t want to plug my book too much (especially
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:40 PM

Accelerators in IE8

Internet Explorer 8 seems to be guided by the same “many little improvements” philosophy that has driven Windows 7 – or put another way it’s not packed with radical new features , and in some cases I find it hard to be sure if something really wasn’t
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 1:42 PM

Windows 7 and UAC

From the start I thought User Account Control was a big step forward for Vista I tended to brush off any complaints about UAC, for 3 reasons Most of the appearances of UAC appear during the initial setup of the machine. If this is onerous, then you can
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:33 AM

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 client Betas on Technet

I’m not exactly delighted to be be blogging at 3:13 in the morning, but I’m watching the keynote from CES. In the last 45 minutes we’ve published a press release about Windows 7. Steve Ballmer said that “Technet and MSDN subscribers can download it now”.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:55 AM

Windows 7 – not a very well kept secret

We’ve got a projector in the office which gathers various streams of news and shows them on the wall, and today it keeps talking about Windows 7. It seems SteveB is making a speech tonight and everyone expects it to announce the beta of Windows 7. ( Mary
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Monday, October 27, 2008 3:33 PM

Mary Jo Foley and Windows pet peeves.

It was interesting listening to Mary Jo at the event Eileen got together last week. Mark has a good write up. No two ways about, Mary Jo’s a PC:  there were a couple of comments she made which stayed with me one was that other companies  “can
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