Text mode drivers and Sysprep (on Windows XP)
I’m so glad we’ve moved away from needing to use Sysprep on Windows Vista / 7. But since I still support Windows XP and needed to add a Intel AHCI…
I’m so glad we’ve moved away from needing to use Sysprep on Windows Vista / 7. But since I still support Windows XP and needed to add a Intel AHCI…
Each Microsoft operating system installation allows you to do an “in-place” upgrade. aka, The “Do you wish to upgrade this computer to Windows xyz” prompt when you insert a Microsoft…
How to adjust your car mirrors to avoid blind spots For the past few years, various carmakers have been offering blind-spot detection systems for their cars’ side mirrors. Often complex,…
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…
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…
How to Install GPMC on Server 2008, 2008 R2, and Windows 7 (via RSAT) Can You See Me - Open Port Check Tool Is a free utility for remotely verifying…
Dealing with VMs, Snapshots and the dreaded broken security channel The problem with that perfect world is that you might want to snapshot a single machine to perform a what-if…
... 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…
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…