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Windows BCD Store

Before Windows Vista Boot Configuration Information was stored within the boot.inifile. With the introduction of Windows Vista Microsoft has completel...

Booting Win7 from a VHD file

Windows7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will support booting directly from a [VHD](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738373.aspx) (Virtual hard disk) f...

Windows7 overview from Mark Minasi

[Mark Minasi ](http://www.minasi.com/)has put together a nice overview on Windows7. "[the next Windows: Lucky7?"](http://www.minasi.com/win7ppt.pdf)

Reducing the Windows Vista Footprint

The Windows Vista footprint is quite large, so my current thoughts are "how to reduce the Windows Vista footprint ?". I hope to come up with a complet...

GPO Preferences require XMLLite

Reading the [Group Policy Preferences Overview](http://www.gpoguy.com/Portals/0/Group%20Policy%20Preferences%20Overview.pdf) Whitepaper from SDM softw...

Enable Active Directory Services tools on Windows 2008

I just connected to our fresh installed Windows 2008 server that we intend to use as a remote system management console. The server is a member of our...