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

Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:09 +0000

Microsoft recently confirmed that Windows Media Center will not be included by default within Windows 8 but will be available as an economical “media pack” add-on to Windows 8 Pro. One of the reasons for not including it anymore as a build-in feature is because according to the data Microsoft has collected via it’s Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) only a small percentage of users are actively using Media Center on Windows 7. Another reason is that nowadays more users are streaming video content over the internet instead of playing a local DVD. And finally, I guess that in just a few years the same will happen with DVD players as happened with the floppy drives, they will disappear.

Using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool with custom ISO files

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:51:32 +0000

Most of you are probably familiar with the Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool which allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB or a DVD. Now the Tool works great with the original Microsoft Windows 7 ISO files, but when you want to use the tool for your own customized Windows 7 installation ISO files you might get an error as shown below.

ToolTip: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:21:55 +0000

The Windows 7 USB / DVD Download Tool allows you to transfer the content of the Windows 7 installation sources to a USB device or DVD media. The tool is FREE and can be downloaded from here If you use Windows XP you must have at least the .NET Framework 2.0 or higher installed and you must install the Image Mastering API v2.0 prior installing the Tool.

**Additional Information:
**Microsoft Store: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
CodePlex: Windows 7 USB / DVD Download Tool

Getting your OS Restore DVD to work with large image files

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:10:07 +0000

This week, we completed the Windows 7 x64 build for our internal Tech Community. During the testing of the OS Restore DVD we ran into a problem when attempting to restore the image from DVD.

Our custom Windows 7 64 bit image has a size of approx. 4.8 GB. This because the 64 bit version of Windows7 has a larger footprint than the 32 bit version and because we had included some applications like Office 2010 CTP and some drivers for a limited number of hardware. Since we did not want to split the content across multiple DVD’s, we had decided that we would create just one ISO with OSCDIMG.EXE life that people would need to burn on a Dual Layer DVD which provides enough capacity.