• Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part I

    Hello folks, the Dude here, helping you make a learning lab based on a single machine. From this all things are (pretty much) possible…lets get our learning on now! Enable Hyper-V in Windows 8: Pretty straight forward step here. In the Windows...
  • Hot off the presses, get it now, the Windows 8 VDI optimization script, courtesy of PFE!

    Hats off to Carl Luberti!  So, here it is, without further ado….its’ time to start Optimizing!   ' // ========================================================================   ' // Original generated with VDIOptimizer - http://www.autoitscript...
  • Windows 8 Tip o the Day!–Windows Defender All Grown Up

    Today’s Tip… by Robert Mitchell! While Windows Defender has been available for a while (first available with Windows Vista), for a time it was simply an antispyware program.  When Windows 8 released, it carried with it a beefier version of Windows...
  • Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Understanding Startup Items

    Todays Tip from Robert Mitchell… First for Windows RT, As part of the effort to improve battery life and PC responsiveness, the startup apps support in Windows RT was removed. Change Description: Windows RT does not honor startup app entries in the following...
  • Xperf for the layman, performance analysis unchained, Windows Assessment Toolkit revealed.

    If you have been following along in performance land the last year or three, you’d hear about xperf and the WPT (Windows Performance Toolkit). Mayhap you’ve had some time to practice and you know what you are doing. Cool. This tool might still...