Text mode drivers and Sysprep (on Windows XP)
DaleI’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…
Another downside of upgrading a Windows 2000 to Windows XP
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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – March 2010
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,…
Windows 2000 had Active Directory folders.
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…
What? WindowsUpdate doesn’t work with a non-activated Windows XP?
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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance (3) – January 2010
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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance (2) – January 2010
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…
How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”
... 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…
There was no TIFF viewer in Windows XP
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…