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Forcing Windows 7 Adoption

Submitted by Mike on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 21:01

image I downloaded the Windows 7 beta pretty shortly after it was available. I quickly took advantage of some free disk space on my drive, shrunk my partition, and set up dual boot with Windows Vista.

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How to Resize (Shrink) your Partition in Vista

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 17:52

Let me guess, you’ve downloaded your copy of Windows 7, and you want to dual boot. Maybe you’ve heard that you can re-claim unused space on your hard drive, and you want to know how. Heck, maybe you want to see what the big deal is with Windows 64 bit.Well never fear, here’s a quick guide on how to reclaim some unused space to use for a shiny new partition.

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Installing Windows 7 Beta in Sun's VirtualBox

Submitted by Art on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 05:01

Update 1/16/09: Wow! We've gotten an overwhelming response to this post and it has quickly become our most popular ever. Thanks to all!

But in particular I'd like to thank a few web sites that have linked to this article:

http://www.version2.dk/artikel/9596-med-windows-7-i-sandkassen

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Server 2008: The Installer has insufficient Privileges to modify this file

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 22:01

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Sometimes the easiest things can be so difficult. I was just trying to install a simple update package, "Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1" to be exact. The installer returns the error "The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\RelNotes.htm".

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Windows XP lives a little longer.

Submitted by Art on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 10:59

Looks like Microsoft decided to extend the lifetime of everyone’s favorite operating system, Windows XP, to May 30, 2009. The death of XP was originally slated for the end of January, but due to the popularity of Microsoft’s hard-to-kill operating system and the slow adoption rate of Vista, they decided to extend it a few months longer.

Is anyone really surprised by this? How many of you out there are still using XP? If you are, do you plan to go to Vista any time soon?

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Documentation? What good is that?

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 13:29

OldBooksGood documentation is really nice to have. I did a Server Migration, or transition this last Friday (the 14th). We went from Server 2003 to Server 2008, and now I'm realizing that my documentation was a little out of date.

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Kill an unresponsive app in Windows.

Submitted by Art on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 11:34

Recently I ran across this version of xkill for Windows. xkill is a fast and very easy to use Linux program that will let you kill any misbehaving program with just a couple of mouse clicks.

When you usually try to do this with Windows, you’ll probably be going to the Task Manager and killing it from there. But sometimes the program won’t close right away and you’ll need to wait a minute or two for it to finally disappear.

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Help Shape Windows 7 and Learn What Goes on Behind the Scenes

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 12:22

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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a say in what Microsoft changed or added for their new OS? Wouldn't it be great if normal people like you and I had a way to influence what gets put on that disc before it goes to manufacturing? Well, believe it or not, you do.

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What's a machine with 2TB of RAM look like?

Submitted by Mike on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 11:08

On our last podcast, I mentioned seeing a screen shot of the Task Manager for a system with 2TB of RAM. I told Art that I would have to send the link to him, but I figured that this is something that many of our readers and listeners would appreciate.

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Can't open the Windows XP firewall settings?

Submitted by Art on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 11:35

My other XP machine finally decided to update itself to SP3 last night, and it bombed.

I don't know exactly what happened, because I run that machine headless and usually access it only with remote desktop. So, after the service pack installed, it restarted and I waited for it to come back up. But when it did, I couldn't get to it any more. I couldn't even ping it. I couldn't reach it over the network at all.

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