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XP Mode within the Enterprise

Last week I had a Windows 7 planning meeting with one of our clients and like in any other Windows 7 related meeting that i have had in the past months with other customers, the topic about XP Mode was brought up. It appears that when speaking about application compatibility, first thing people think of [...]

Optimizations for Virtualized Windows 7 clients

Just found these two blog posts that describe some Registry and Services optimizations when running Windows 7 as a virtual client. Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops Windows 7 Optimization – Disable Services Thanks to Daniel Feller for sharing this

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta

Today Microsoft released the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta. The tools scans your system and checks if its able to run Winodws7. Download here

Wireless Power Technology

Will we get rid of batteries soon ? Read more here: http://www.ecoupled.com/index.html

Linkedin Applications

Those using Linkedin, check out Linkedin Applications.

Wireless Router with Power button

This is what i have been looking for since a while, about 12 months ago i was actively searching for a Wireless router with a power on/off button, but with no luck. Yesterday i read a local IT magazine where there was a reference to a Netgrear Wireless Router that has a power on/off button. [...]

Yet another document resource

Back from vacation and cleaning up my mail. A colleague has send us the link to Scribd. Scribd is a document sharing community and by just browsing quickly through the content it looks like there is a lot of interesting reading stuff there. Those interested in Windows Server 2008 can download the free eBook Windows [...]

Automating Regional settings configuration for Vista

In my earlier post "Automating Regional Settings configuration" I described how to script the Regional Options settings for Windows XP using a rundll command. For Windows Vista there is a similar trick using the following command: control intl.cpl,, /f:“filename.xml” Details on how to populate the filename.xml are documented on Microsoft Technet – Guide to Windows [...]

Windows sidebar gadgets

Once announced as one of the great new features in Windows Vista, it has become silent around the Sidebar gadgets. To me it looks like people have ran out of ideas about what could be gadgetized. You find tons of Vista sidebar gadgets that display the weather, latest news, stocks, clocks and a whole range [...]

iPhone 3G comming to Switzerland

Today i found a message in my private mailbox about the launch of the iPhone 3G in Switzerland, due on the 10th of July. For more information see: http://iphone3g.swisscom.ch/?lang=en