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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 remove the system reserved partition

Today I worked on something where I needed a Windows 8 client that does not have a system reserved partition. To avoid a fresh installation of Windows...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Wednesday, April 18, 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

Copying command-line tools from Windows into WinPE, don’t forget the localization files

To keep the footprint of WinPE as small as possible many services or tools usually found within a full Windows installation are not available within W...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Thursday, April 12, 2012

Windows 8 ADK Assessments OS and Architecture Support Overview

Along with Windows 8 Microsoft also provides a new tool for System Builders and IT Professionals called the Windows Assessment Toolkit. The Windows As...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, April 8, 2012