Category Archives: Microsoft

Windows Vista RC (Build 5600)

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

Installed this last night and I’m playing around with it this morning. Noticed you could create a backup for your password to floppy disk! Is not the age were most people have USB pen drives, XD, SD, Compact Flash Drives … Continue reading →

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Vista Public Download

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

I was a bit slow on this one, but the Public Download of Vista RC1 is now available here. It will be interesting to play about with after the great press/reviews this release has been receiving of late.

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Inking

Posted on August 17, 2006 by Wayne Taylor
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Creating A VHD file using Imaging Software

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

I purchased Acronis True Image Workstation last night which claims you can restore the backed up image to a Virtual PC. I’ve not tried it yet, but I’ll let you know the results. The complete backup thou took 4 hours to backup 80GIG!

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Windows Live Writer

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

OK this is my first post using Microsoft’s New Windows Live Writer Application/Utility… Not had much of a play around yet, but why not just have a plug in for word, maybe because everybody doesn’t have word. Anyway if you … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista VHD CompletePC File..

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

I have tried this and the images doesn’t boot, I have only tried with Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and not with Virtual Server R2 as of yet, I’ll let you know.

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Windows Virtual Server/PC VHD files…

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

As Microsoft has opened up the VHD file format would it not be cool if you could use Ghost 9/10 to ghost that PC’s HDD into a VHD file and you could then boot that PC up? This would be … Continue reading →

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XBOX360

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

I have purchased an XBOX360 and I’m very happy with it indeed, I have left the Sony stable for Microsoft……

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SBS 2003 Features I Wished Where There

Posted on July 4, 2006 by Wayne Taylor

It would be cool when you logged into RWW and clicked on the Connect to my computer at work that as well as showing you the computer name it displayed the computer description, also weather a user was logged in, … Continue reading →

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