Teach your users to use Windows7
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010For system administrators, switching to a new version of Windows is usually a simple task and we get use to it really easy. But for the end users it might not be that way. With more and more organizations getting ready to deploy Windows 7 (or already use Windows 7), system administrators are facing a [...]
[FREE EBOOK] The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Today I want to share one very cool and useful eBook with you. It’s called The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts, and it is, as you might presume, a complete collection of all Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts!!! Written by Nitin Agrawal, this eBook comprises of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts containing almost all the keyboard shortcuts [...]
Free ebook: Windows 7 Tips and Tricks
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Free ebook Windows 7 Tips and Tricks is a compilation of one of the finest Tips and Tricks about Windows 7. You can use them to enrich the Windows 7 Desktop experience of yours. It contains more than 50 Tips and tricks and an added bonus section for Windows 7 Applications. This ebook has 113 [...]
Hyper-V Monitor Gadget
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Do you want to monitor your Hyper-V server whenever you work at your workstation? Do you want to immediately see when server or virtual machine goes down? There is a nice gadget for Windows Vista / Windows 7, which can help you. It’s called Hyper-V Monitor, and it displays all necessary information from your remote [...]
Killing The Myth: The Machine SID Duplication
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009The most popular posts on this blog are those about Security Identifier (SID). Users are interested in how to change SID using NewSID (which is, by the way, not supported anymore), how to check SID using PsGetSID and how to change SID using Sysprep. Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow at Microsoft (founder of Sysinternals and author [...]
How to install an application in XP Mode?
Monday, November 16th, 2009I don’t have any old application which doesn’t work on Windows 7, but two weeks ago I needed to test Windows XP Mode and show it during presentation to high-school teachers (here is the info on how to deploy Windows XP Mode). I was very surprised how easy is to install application in XP Mode [...]
10 Free Windows 7 Chapters
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Many books are being written about Windows 7 at this moment, and many of them have already been written (Windows 7 for Dummies, for example). Today I’’ll give you links to some chapters from Windows 7 books, so you can learn more about it. Microsoft Press has added three more chapters to the Microsoft Learning [...]
New Technet magazine: Gear up for Windows 7
Monday, November 2nd, 2009As Arlindo Alves stated on his blog, new Technet magazine has been published. And guess what, most of the articles are about Windows 7 . Here is the list of few articles for IT professionals: Windows 7: The 10 Things to Do First for Windows 7 Windows 7: Groovy Security in Windows 7 Windows 7: [...]
Windows 7 USB installation
Friday, October 30th, 2009Do you have netbook without DVD drive? Do you want to upgrade/install Windows 7 on it? Till now, the only option was to attach external DVD drive to your netbook. Now, Microsoft officially supports installation of Windows 7 from USB stick. You will need Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT), free program which you can [...]
How to deploy Windows XP Mode
Friday, October 30th, 2009Windows XP Mode is great new feature in Windows 7. It is Windows XP operating system that you can download from Virtual PC web site, and start it in Windows Virtual PC. Why do you need it? For example, if you have some applications that you can run only on Windows XP or older Windows [...]
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