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Windows 8 the Comeback of 3rd Party DVD Player Software?

Microsoft recently confirmed that Windows Media Center will not be included by default within Windows 8 but will be available as an economical “media ...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, May 3, 2012

Windows 8 - File History Feature replaces “Previous Versions” and Backup and Restore

While reading the [Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server “8” Beta Compatibility Cookbook](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848074(v=v...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, April 29, 2012

Saturday morning ramblings with Windows 8 Hyper-V and Sun VirtualBox

Yesterday I prepared a new system with Windows 8 CP that has the latest Intel I7 processor and 8GB of RAM. My initial plan was to use Hyper-V which is...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, April 28, 2012

Windows Services, what changed from Windows 7 to Windows 8

Nearly 3 years ago I wrote a blog post about the [Windows Services changes between Windows Vista and Windows 7](https://www.verboon.info/index.php/200...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, April 19, 2012

How to register a custom Assessment Job within the Windows Assessment Console

In the [Scaling And Extending Windows Assessments To Improve System Quality (Part I & II)](http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/HW-148P) pr...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

GPO Template for UE-V SettingsTemplateCatalogPath configuration

To simplify my testing activities with Microsoft’s User Experience Virtualization (UE-V( Beta, I created a Group Policy template that configures the U...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, April 17, 2012