Category Archives: Microsoft

Virtual Box

So I came across Sun’s Virtual Box software some time ago and tried booting a 64bit OS on it which at the time seemed a little buggy. I decided that  I would give it another go and it seems to … Continue reading

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Windows Home Server Add-in

Here in the UK we had a bank holiday yesterday which of course meant we had 3 days off.  So I spent some time with the wife over the last few days and decided that I would embark on new … Continue reading

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Outlook 2007 Managing RSS Feeds

Had this error starting coming up in outlook the last few days: Believe it or not I couldn’t ID which feed had the issue, I went into the RSS folder and right clicked but it doesn’t display the URL. Eventually … Continue reading

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Windows 7 Family Pack

Just reading on the Windows Team Blog, that we are indeed going to be able to purchase the Windows 7 Family Pack here in the UK. This will allow 3 PC’s to be upgraded in the home.  This is good … Continue reading

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Windows SBS 2008

  I’ would like to be writing about Windows SBS 2008… but I’m having a hard time getting things up and running. SBS 2008 is a 64bit OS, because Windows Server 2008 is a 64 bit OS, nothing really surprising … Continue reading

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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

  This seems to have been kept very quite… Virtual Server now runs on Vista.. At last I can build small test networks…. No information on the blogs that I subscribe to…. Download

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Now a MCP

I passed my first Microsoft Exam, on Friday. I’ve been working with computers since I was 13+ (I’m 30 now). As I worked in a single company for 9+ years, applying for a Microsoft exam never seem to happen. I … Continue reading

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T-SQL Queries

I was trying to figure out how to get a T-SQL to allow a user to enter part of a name to query on, for example the user could enter ML, click a search button which would return all companies … Continue reading

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Windows Live Messenger Adverts

I was reading PC PRO April 2007 Edition, which landed on the door mat at lunch time today. While reading Jon Honeyball’s column he mentions this utility which allows you to remove the advets from Windows Live Messenger (among lots … Continue reading

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Windows Vista RC (Build 5600) Post Sep 9th 2005

I’ve just read this post and I’m happy to report that in the Release version of Vista, you can select other removable media…. thank good.

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