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• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Win10 Upgrade to Dell XPS27 Easy-Peasy

  In complete and stark contrast to my experience with the Surface Pro 3, the upgrade from Windows 8.1 to 10 on my son's Dell XPS27 went without a single hitch or hiccup. I turned the upgrade via ...

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Win10 Stumbles Badly on Surface During Post-Install App Additions

  Drat! I wrote too soon, or too optimistically, in yesterday's blog post about the contortions necessary to bring my Surface Pro 3 into "Windows 10 land." After getting more or less everything ...

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Factory Reset Offers Way Out for Surface Pro 3 Catch-22

  In case you've been wondering, I've been on vacation since my last post went up on July 27. Though I had a great trip to Germany with my family, I ended up skipping blithely past the Windows 10 RTM ...

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  After Raft of Problem Win10 Updates, MS Releases "Show or hide updates" tool

  Hmmmmm. Looks like I wasn't the only Win10 cowboy stuck out in the pasture with no lasso for a badly-behaved Windows driver updates. Numerous reports surfaced this weekend about an Nvidia graphics ...

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Grrrr! No-refuse Synaptics Touchpad Driver Update Kills Device

  Starting on July 22, Windows Update on Win10 Build 10241 started offering me a Synaptics driver update for the touchpad on my Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139. And man, did my system get caught in a crack, ...

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• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  DaaS hasn't found a place in the enterprise

  DENVER -- Considering all the attention desktop as a service has gotten in the IT world over the last year, the technology has been a big failure. That’s what Brian Madden said in his welcome ...

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Driver Difficulties Return in Win10 Build 20140

  For the last three builds of Windows 10 (10159, 10162, and 10166) the OS was remarkably well-behaved in installing drivers for my newest PC (a less-than-one-year-old Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139 with an ...

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  QuickTime Poses Interesting Win10 Update Issue

  If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you already know I'm a big proponent of Secunia products, most notably Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (PSI, but they also have a ...

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Build 10240 Looks and Smells Like a Release Candidate

  Ha! Ha! No sooner did I post a blog about a build hiatus for Windows 10 Insider that did Microsoft release an honest-to-gosh release candidate in the form of Build 10240. How do I know this is a ...

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Are high-density servers and VDI meant to be?

  In his attempt to woo his future wife in the 1985 sci-fi hit Back to the Future, George McFly flubs his pickup line, saying "I'm your density" instead of "I'm your destiny." That classic movie ...

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Win10 Builds on Hiatus While MS Preps RTM Upgrade

  Thanks to Paul Thurrott, I am now hip to Gabe Aul's additions to the Windows Insider updates to the 10166 Build Announcement post, which read as follows: Update 7/13: We’re only a couple of weeks ...

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  RelMon Shows How Drivers Get Handled During Win10 Install

  For a while now, I've been speculating about what goes on with device drivers each time a new Win10 Build goes onto one of my test machines. In visiting Reliability Monitor (RelMon) this morning, I ...

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Win10 Build 10166 Pops Up

  Having been distracted by other projects for most of this week, I was pleased to have missed the latest Fast Ring release of Build 10166 by only one day. I got it fired up and running almost ...

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  File History Requires Windows Search

  I'm working on my traveling laptop this week, so I'm on a different PC from usual. It's my trusty bigger-screen Lenovo T420 (Sandy Bridge 2.8 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, Plextor 256 GB mSATA SSD, and so ...

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  First Win10 RTM Candidate Hits

  As reported on lots of Windows watching sites -- WinBeta and betanews, for example -- a first Windows 10 build numbered 10176, labeled as a release candidate, has made its debut.  Most of these ...