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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...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Friday, December 31, 2010

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...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, December 23, 2010

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...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, December 18, 2010

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...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, November 7, 2010