Complete guide to XP mode in Windows 7
Don't forget that you need virtualization support in your CPU!
Complete guide to XP mode in Windows 7
Windows Virtual PChttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
The next-generation newsletter of the Greater Boston Network Users Group (BNUG). Technical tips for all different platforms, industry observations, and all sorts of neat stuff!
TechNet Unleashed: The Microsoft Virtualization Tour
Join our TechNet IT Evangelists as they hit the road again this fall to bring you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. We’ll go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot – a new feature for Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. Next, we’ll move into Windows XP mode, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™, and finish with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
As anyone that owns a BlackBerry can attest the included browser is not the fastest. Here are two alternatives. Bolt is much easier to work with in filling out forms using the touchscreen and virtual keyboard.
Do you need to determine the speed of your connection from various servers located in the US & the world?
Please note that correct to today, Nov 3rd 2009, the new Droid phone from Verizon will NOT naively sync with standalone Outlook (IOW w/o exchange)
This may be the smartphone i have been waiting for! More to follow I am sure :)
Windows 7 is, in fact, the spiffiest version of Windows yet. But besides the catches you've already heard about (like not being able to upgrade XP or 2000 directly to 7), there's a couple more.
Another interesting project coming from Mozilla:
Article on how to qualify for a "free" upgrade to Win 7 if you purchased a PC within the past 6 months.
Audacity is a free open-source audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. "
Do you need a tool to create VMX files for use with VMPlayer?
Did you ever wish you could copy the full file location into the copy/paste buffer?
Excerpt from an article I just wrote on the Benefits and Risks of Cloud Computing for Small and Medium Size Businesses:
What is WinSCP?
Here is a hidden jewel that I just discovered if you are running mixed virtualized guests (Linux & Windows)
"inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn't work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems."
Microsoft announces unpatched IE vulnerability
Link to Windows 7 Feature Comp Chart @ PCWorld
As mentioned a ways back in this blog, I bought an Asus EEE 901 last year when I decided to experiment more with netbooks. The 901 is a nice, well-engineered piece of hardware. The only places where I've deviated from the standard installation is in upgrading the RAM to 2GB (pretty much essential if you want to run without a pagefile in Windows) and in upgrading the secondary SSD to 16GB from the 8 provided. I've run various flavors of Windows on it mainly - Vista and Windows 7 have been on here as experiments (mainly, I travel with my Mac so I'm not generally too worried about having this all usable).
As always **at your own risk** but here are some free data recovery utilities for (Windows/Mac/Linux)!
No good Apple talk in a while on this blog (or, for that matter, on my personal one either), so I figured I'd share a little talk about the current laptop fleet they're shipping. In one form or another, I either own or use (or have set up) at least one of each, so I've got a good grounds for comparison.
Thanks to folks in the MS labs, we now have the marvelous tool:
I finally couldn't resist any longer when I held one of the Acer "Aspire One" notebook computers in my hands at a display in Costco. For $349 (same price as MicroCenter's store in Cambridge) you get a 2-lb. metallic-blue color hard plastic cased machine running Windows XP on a 1.6GHz Intel "Atom" CPU, a 120GB internal hard disk, 1GB of memory, built-in WiFi, RJ-45 jack for 10base100 ethernet, three USB ports, a mini-SD card reader slot, built-in web cam and microphone, 3.5mm jacks for headset and for external audio input, a 15-pin jack for an external monitor or projector, a 3-cell LIoN battery and a 120/240vac charger/power supply. Also included is a faux-leather fitted carrying pouch.