Windows Enterprise Desktop:

April, 2009


April 8, 2009  5:15 PM

Sizing and Placing the Vista Pagefile



Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista, Windows Vista paging file, Windows Vista tweaking and tuning, Windows Vista virtual memory

One question that I get frequently about Vista, especially from power users, tackles the size of its paging file. Remember, the paging file (which resides in a file named pagefile.sys on Vista machines, often on the system drive, sometimes on one or more other physical drives present on a Vista PC)...

April 6, 2009  6:46 PM

TX Legislature Inveighs Against Vista



Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista, Windows Vista, Windows Vista adoption, Windows Vista blocked, Windows Vista legislation

On April 2, ComputerWorld reported that the Texas Senate included a rider in its 2009-2010 state budget that blocks state agencies from upgrading to Windows Vista without...


April 3, 2009  3:11 PM

Check Out Windows Springboard for Win7 Info



Posted by: Ed Tittel
Mark Russinovich technical blog, Windows 7, Windows 7 blogs, Windows 7 Feature walkthroughs, Windows 7 forums, Windows 7 springboard

Thanks to a recent email from the Microsoft Learning PR rep, the ever-helpful Andrea Platt Dayal, I now know about the Microsoft Springboard Series, which she describes as a source of "...additional information for IT pros on...


April 1, 2009  4:18 PM

My New Favorite Vista Epigram



Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista, enterprise Vista desktop, Windows Vista stability, Windows Vista troubleshooting, Windows Vista vs. Windows 7

I jsut read a marvelous story from the Sydney Morning Herald entitled "Windows 7 looking good, especially after Vista woes." It includes a brief but telling remark...