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Windows 7 Device Installation Without Administrative Rights

This year I have had the opportunity to speak with many customers about Windows 7. One topic that came up in almost every discussion was about how mob...

Inside the Windows 7 Driver Store

The driver store is a trusted location of inbox and third-party driver packages. This means that before a driver can be installed it must first be inj...

Prevent the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from formatting the USB flash drive

If you want to install Windows 7 from USB you can use Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool which you can download from [here](http://wudt.codep...

Additional Windows 7 Search Connectors

One of my favorite features of Windows 7 is Federated Search allowing users to search remote data sources from within the windows Explorer. I wrote ab...

Adding Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DART) to your Windows 7 boot menu

Last weekend I went through the Microsoft TechEd 2010 presentations and one of the presentations that got my attention was “Keeping Windows Running Ef...

Control Windows 7 Scheduled Maintenance Behavior Through Group Policy

This week one of my customers send me the Microsoft support article [KB978980 – Desktop Shortcuts disappear in Windows 7](http://support.microsoft.com...