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Hands on: Windows 7 'XP Mode'

Over the past few days a huge number of electrons have been inconvenienced to bring you news about a new Windows 7 feature called XP Mode. In this post I'm going to take a closer look at this technology and what you need to make it work for you. by...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, windows, 7, xp, mode, vhd, virtual, machine, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Image galleries 2009-05-01

Windows 7 build 7048 vs. Windows 7 beta 1 vs. Vista vs. XP performance shootout - which is best?

How does the latest leaked build of Windows 7 (7048) compare to the beta 1 (build 7000), Vista SP1 and XP SP3 in terms of performance? According to my Hardware 2.0 inbox, this is a question that you want answered. Let's see if I can answer it for those of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, windows, win, 7, xp, vista, performance, benchmark, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Image galleries 2009-03-10

User Interface Transition from Windows XP to Windows 7

How end users will need to adapt to UI changes in Windows 7. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, windows, xp, vista, windows 7, microsoft, desktop, Jason Perlow

Image galleries 2009-01-01

Microsoft Stealth Update and Windows XP repair don't mix

Microsoft did more than send a stealth update to XP users - it sent a buggy stealth update.This gallery relates to this story. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, screenshots, microsoft, windows, xp, repair, stealth

Image galleries 2008-07-04

More on slipstreaming XP SP3

This gallery looks at how to add IE7, Firefox 2.0, WMP11 and the DST hotfix to the XP SP3 slipstream ISO. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, xp, sp3, iso, ie7, wmp11

Image galleries 2008-05-12

Slipstreaming XP SP3

How to create a slipstreamed XP SP3 ISO using nLite. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, xp, sp3, windows, nlite

Image galleries 2008-05-12

XP SP3 - Installation gallery

Step-by-step XP SP3 installation gallery by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: xp, sp3, os, sp, update, microsoft, windows

Image galleries 2008-04-24

Windows Stealth Updates

Visual proof that Windows updates itself without user consent. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: windows, vista, xp, updates, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Image galleries 2007-09-13

Additional Resources

Portlock Leap Frog 5.13.0.2319 (Windows)

Portlock Leap Frog will assist you in creating a bootable Virtual Hard Disk VHD for native Windows deployment with your Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 machine. The VHD can be used as the running operating system on supported hardware without a virtual machine or hypervisor....

Tags: Portlock Leap Frog, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Spice up your power management

InterestingChecking out the plug-in. Nice article. Harry should take notes.Power management messed up my laptop.Long, long ago in a land far, far away (Win 98) I had a laptop that I upgraded to Win XP. After upgrading the laptop and installing SP2, Laptop performance went in the...

Tags: Notebooks, power management, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Michael Dell sticks to Windows 7 big bang theory

too old?"Windows XP is 8 years old"So What? If it ain't broke don't fix it!Windows 2000 is ten years old and still does almost everything I need. Everyone around me runs XP or newer, yet I have far fewer problems.What is good for the computer industry is not...

Tags: Operating systems, theory, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame

HAHA! Way to go Microsoft! They basically just told Google to suck it! The best part is they were right the whole time. Yet people blindly defended Google. It would seem Google has more software issues than anyone else.RE: Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome FrameI'm not...

Tags: Web browsers, security, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., attack surface, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

HP Pavilion Elite owner resorts to lawsuit over 'inherently defective' PC

My HP Pavilion Elite... / HP quality controlMy HP Pavilion Elite came with an obviously defective, and defectively designed, video card. After about eight months, the video card model was finally recalled.My previous HP desktop computer went for about five years without a problem.HP's quality control is clearly going down...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion Elite, HP Pavilion, Linux, Core i7, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Advanced Windows Unattended Installation 2.6 (Windows)

If you work as a system administrator in an organization and maintain a lot of computers, you are sure to have come across the situation when you had to buy a consignment of computers and install all kinds of software on each of them. The direct consequence of such a...

Tags: Computer, Unattended Installation Systems, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini - The Inspiron Zino HD

People Actually Buy These Things?Almost a $1000.00 for a cutsey, low powered designer computer? Do people actually buy these things? Maybe they should check out your Very Best Kit list.adrian please 959$ you dont put 959 for a low-end entry level machine you can have...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac Mini, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

MyDefrag 4.2.6 (Windows)

MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, and for X64. It is freeware, with no time limit, and is fully functional with no advertisements. It is fast, with low overhead and many optimization strategies. It...

Tags: Disk, Defragmenter, Jeroen Kessels, MyDefrag, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Windows 7's first 100 days: So how were yours?

My windows 7 experience I had previously posted this, but my comment is more relevant to your article: After reading so much reviews praising how wonderful windows 7 was, I decided to give it a go. So here, I bought the W7 DVD and decided to upgrade my Vista SP2...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, first 100-day, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Groklaw suggests Microsoft sue, do over authentication

Are you in any way trying to legitimize patent trolling?You are well aware that what Microsoft is doing is what we all used to call patent trolling aren't you?My guess...Nothing will happen... this is just MS trying to protect UAC and runas from paten lawsuits.Besides MS would be idiot... well...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, authentication, Groklaw, patent, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?

Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Other Countries, Web browser, Friday Challenge, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, browser market share, security hole, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Microsoft bracing for malware attacks from embedded fonts

Not too worried here......Been using group policy for a long time with font downloads always being disabled for all users on my network. I am patching no doubt, but much less concerned knowing I have always had this blocked. I'm coveredno windoze , no threat.Again with the fear...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, font, Microsoft Windows, malware attack, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, malware, Windows7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-12