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I first read about MacPatchCacheSize, and how to use it to save space in Virtual Machines, over at Jeremy Jameson’s blog. From the Microsoft MSDN Library entry for MaxPatchCacheSize: "The value of the MaxPatchCacheSize policy is the maximum percentage of disk space that the installer can use for the cache of old files. For [...] Have you moved off them yet? Windows 2000 End-of-Support Solution Center In Windows 2000 you could create a shortcut to an Active Directory resource, and turn it into an Windows Explorer view. One of my (now long gone) predecessors worked out it would make life easier for end users.
The AD Folder shortcut would look like this on a Windows 2000 system: The user reported that since a Windows XP upgrade, the icon looked like this: You can tell the Windows 2000 shortcut looks like a Folder shortcut. The Windows XP shortcut, just looks broken. (Click here to continue reading Windows 2000 had Active Directory folders.) And I only just realised it now. * Now I’m not going to complain about Microsoft. If you have a valid license key, you should activate it. But I don’t want to activate Windows as I’m just doing some tests, part of the Undelete series of posts. And before someone says “Dude, you [...] … to the virtual machine. Check the values provided and try again.” error It sucks as an error message. Would it take too much programming effort to make it more meaningful Virtual PC team? What does it mean? It means you have a Virtual Hard Disk file larger than 127.5GB. Which Virtual PC does not support. In other words, we’ve captured a 160GB hard disk, and Virtual PC won’t let us use it. But we can fix it, it’s a two step process First we use DiskPart, and then we use VHD Resizer. (Click here to continue reading How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”) I was watching someone install Windows XP on a system with SATA drives the other day. The PC would power up, look briefly at the CD/DVD drive, and then carry onto the hard disk. The problem was that the SATA option in the BIOS, was set to AHCI. To boot from a CD/DVD, you [...] Which we found out when we were piloting a Windows XP SOE release. It was a serious “show stopper” for the rollout of Windows XP at this customer. We’re talking 20,000+ desktops here. Prior to Windows XP, going all the way back to Windows 95, there was the “Kodak Imaging for Windows” product. [...] Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP (KB314463) Essentially 32GB max size if using Windows XP/2000 to create it, 8 2 –> 8 terabyte if you wanted to use a non-Microsoft utility to format the drive. Trivia: the original development name for FAT32 was BigFAT. Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size [...] Ironic, when I think about it. That I’m still supporting an operating system I first supported in 2001. Today’s support query, I have an ActiveX which prompts the user to install it. Is there any way to make the ActiveX install silent, and not visible to the user? Short answer, you need to [...] Is really easy with Windows Easy Transfer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/easy-transfer.aspx) I’m a fan of the clean operating system install, rather than an operating system upgrade install. The bad thing about clean installs is that it removes all of yours, and any other users settings. You can here the complaints now “I’ve lost my favourites” whinge whinge [...] |
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