Semi-regular web-link clearance – November 2009
DaleDesi Dhaba Authentic Indian restaurant. One of the blokes at work recommends it. Will have to give it a try. 134 Flinders Street, Melbourne. I’ve tried it, curry was good,…
Tip for installing Windows 7 : update your BIOS first.
Windows 7 uses your BIOS version to determine what hardware drivers should be downloaded to your PC. So updating my BIOS is one of the first things I do before…
4. The number of times I’ve installed Windows 7 RTM since Saturday.
Problems arranged from: Changing from SATA IDE emulation to AHCI on an installed Windows 7, causes Windows 7 to Bluescreen. sidenote: can’t boot from my SATA CD-ROM drive when it’s…
WSUS does support Peer Caching unless
you have integrated your Microsoft WSUS server into your Microsoft SCCM 2007 architecture. So what is Peer Caching? Peer caching is a new feature of BITS 3.0 that allows peers…
3 Windows 7 Features I really like
In addition to my "2 and a bit reasons to wait for Windows 7" post, these are 3 features I really like in Windows 7. Problem Steps Recorder User has…
Display driver stopped responding and has recovered
Windows 7 x32 RC. This happened as soon as I started Microsoft Excel 2007. Given that I was running several VMware machines and memory was running a bit low, I…
The Microsoft Loopback Adapter, NT4 & Windows 7.
Reading a Microsoft blog post recently, I was reminded of a customer request from late 2002. The emailed request was something like this: Had to use the generic Win NT4…
2 and a bit reasons to wait for Windows 7
If you’re a business customer, thinking about making the upgrade from Windows NT4/2000/XP, I’d be waiting for Windows 7. By all means, plan and test with Windows Vista, and then…
Creating a bootable USB key under Vista
Every Man + Dog has blogged about this, and since I used the technique to install the Windows 7 Beta on my diskless TC1100 tablet, I’d might as well post…
Windows 7 – what doesn’t work
Been using Windows 7 for the last week. Ever since I saw a series of Windows 7 posts over at Kevin Remde’s blog. First impressions? It’s a refined Vista. It’s…