Windows Enterprise Desktop
November 2009
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At long last, production PC settles down
29 Nov 2009 -
Where Windows 7 Starter Falls Down...For Me
29 Nov 2009 -
Windows 8 Foreshadowing Now Underway
25 Nov 2009
I may be asking for trouble, but it looks like I've finally gotten my production PC to settle down and behave itself. After about 13 weeks of ups and downs I've finally fixed all the drivers, ...
OK, so I've been running Windows 7 Starter on a couple of netbooks and my wife's mini-ITX Core 2 Duo system for a couple of months now. And while I still like this OS, especially for its slim ...
Here's an interested tidbit from Paul Thurrott's latest Wininfo Short Takes blog for November 25, entitled "New Windows Every Three Years? Yes, But There's More..." A number of publications have ...
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OEM Install Issues Are Real and Serious
22 Nov 2009 -
Ed Bott Scores Again with money-saving Win7 suggestions
21 Nov 2009 -
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Helpful Even Post-Upgrade
21 Nov 2009 -
Interesting Win7 Issues with Spyware Doctor with Antivirus
16 Nov 2009 -
MS Unleashes Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series
13 Nov 2009 -
Patch Tuesday, November 09
11 Nov 2009 -
Super Windows 7 Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts
09 Nov 2009
In the wake of my latest blog on bargain Win7 versions, I got an e-mail from a former student and regular corresponent, asking about some problems with an install from a Windows 7 OEM version. ...
Everybody who reads this blog is probably on the clock for an IT job of some kind. But let's face it: that means you're probably handling systems off the clock as well, for family and friends. ...
The obvious use for the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (W7UA) program is to evaluate and report on hardware running some earlier version of Windows to help professionals prepare for an upgrade to that ...
I'm a long-time fan of PC Tool's highly-regarded Spyware Doctor antispyware products, and have run at least one version of this product family on a like number of test and production machines for ...
On November 11, 2009, MS released version 2.51 of its Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series through the Microsoft Download Center. Though not all organizations or users will need all of the ...
Here we go again: yesterday (11/10/2009) was another Patch Tuesday. This time around we see some reasonably serious critical level updates, where we find many versions of Windows affected ...
Whenever Microsoft rolls out a new OS, it's always interesting to see what kinds of shortcuts get eliminated, added, or changed in that process. From my own experience, Windows7 offers plenty of ...
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BlueScreenView Makes Great Crash Debugging Tool
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An MS (!*) Tool for Building Installable Windows UFDs
02 Nov 2009
In the past few years I've written about numerous utilities from Nirsoft, Nir Sofer's superlative source for what he aptly describes as "small and useful freeware utilities." Although it's been out ...
This weekend I got an email from my old buddy Mike Drips, who informed me he'd found a nice little tool for building a bootable, installable UFD for Windows 7 at the Microsoft Store. Alas, I had to ...