IE 8 Beta 2 released
Earlier as planned, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. A final release date has not been communicated yet. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/
Month: August 2008
Take a break
Remember Space Invaders. ……if you’re in the office, turn of sound 🙂 The flash based game can be found here. And if you have read my post about using BITS for file downloads you can download the swf file for Read More …
Organize your desktop
Sysinternals published a new nice utility called Desktops. Not that this is something we haven’t seen before, but like all the tools from sysinternals it’s all nicely packaged into one executable. It’s definitely worth a try. Thanks Tobi for the Read More …
Identifying the WDS Server
When deploying an image from a WDS server it might be useful to know its computer name. Johan Arwidmark has posted the details about the WDSServer variable on his blog here: http://www.deployvista.com/Blog/tabid/70/EntryID/35/Default.aspx
No Automatic reboot please
Saturday morning, before going out with my family on a shopping tour I started a large FTP download and assumed it would have completed upon my return…. a few hours later, I found my system at the logon prompt, as Read More …
The need for installing the Intel Chipset update
Within one of the projects I’m working on, there was a debate about installing the Intel Chipset software. It was requested not to install it. I could not agree with that, as it is a common known best practice to Read More …
The other search engine
When searching the web probably most of us do use Google, because although some don’t like to hear it, it has simply become the default search engine for most users and there doesn’t seem to be much competition, or would Read More …
Official blog on Windows 7
Looks like Microsoft has launched its first official blog that focuses on Windows 7. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx
GP Preferences
In 2006 Microsoft acquired the company DesktopStandard known for its extending Group Policy products GPVault and PolicyMaker. While GPVault has become part of Microsofts MDOP suite that is available only for Enterprise customers that have a Software Assurance contract, the Read More …
Enable access to RSAT after installation
On Windows 2000/XP you used to install the adminpak.msi to get access to the various Administrator tools such as the Active Directory Users and Computers or the DHCP management interface. With Windows Vista SP1, you must install the RSAT package, Read More …