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Charting with PowerShell

richmac — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:29:00 GMT

You may be aware that there are some 3-rd party add-ins for PowerShell that allow you to create charts and graphs from your PowerShell scripts. What you may not be aware of is that there is a free download from Microsoft that will allow you to do the...(read more)

Programming Hyper-V with WMI and C# - Getting Started

richmac — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:25:00 GMT

You may have seen from a recent post that I received a new laptop that was capable of running Hyper-V. Well, it's all fully installed and working, so I thought I might blog about it a bit. There are plenty of existing blogs on Hyper-V, so I thought I...(read more)

Vista, Server 2008 and the Case of the Bitlocker Dual Boot

richmac — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:10:29 GMT

This week, I received my shiny new work laptop, which I'd been anticipating for some time. Normally, I'm not much of a hardware geek and don't get overly excited with new kit, but I was really looking forward to this as it is 64-bit and finally...(read more)

Forcing Theme Settings in Windows Vista

richmac — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:48:00 GMT

Recently I was working with a customer to find a way to automate forcing a specific Aero theme in Windows Vista. The idea was to have the Vista clients "colour-coded" according to their use; so whenever a user logs on the window border colour would indicate...(read more)

(Re-)Start Me Up ...

richmac — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:30:00 GMT

As I mentioned in a recent post , I'm currently working on a Windows Vista workshop. As part of that, I've created a simple application that demonstrates the basic interaction of the Windows Installer with Vista's new Restart Manager (RM). I thought I'd...(read more)