September 25, 2009 7:36 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
MDOP,
MDOP 2009 R2,
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009 R2,
TechNet Magazine Windows 7: The 10 Things You Must Do First,
User State Migration Tool 4.0,
USMT 4.0,
WAIK for Windows 7,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 Application Compatibility,
Windows 7 Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5,
Windows 7 deployment,
Windows 7 Upgrade and Migration,
Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7OK, take note: the posting date for this blog is 9/25/2009. Now, take a look at this picture:
[caption id="attachment_541" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="October 9 is still 15 days away!"]
September 23, 2009 3:19 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
new beta version of Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor released on 9/17/09,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 Upgrade advisor,
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor still in betaIn poking around the MS Download Center, I observed that Microsoft posted a new, but still-beta version of the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (9/17/2009). Having...
September 21, 2009 4:55 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
low-cost Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 $30 student offer,
Windows741"Back to school" just got some added impetus from Microsoft: for a limited time, students at accredited institutions of higher learning (college or university) can purchase one full-blown copy of either Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional for $29.99. The trade-off appears to be domain...
September 18, 2009 4:42 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
recovering from BIOS damage,
troubleshooting Windows 7 network interface problems,
Windows 7 troubleshooting skills,
Windows 7 upgradeAs I'm slowly but surely upgrading all of my PC's to Windows 7 — I'll keep a few dual-boot notebooks with Vista, and netbooks with XP, just for testing and checking on older OSes — I'm encountering interesting things on my systems right and left. In a
September 16, 2009 4:56 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Ed Bott "Windows 7 Upgrade Survival Guide",
uprading to Windows 7,
Windows 7 upgrade,
Windows 7 upgrade survival guideLong-time Windows guru Ed Bott blogs for ZDNet, and his postings are often sources of great information, tips, and tricks for that OS. His 9/14/09 posting "The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide" is no exception to this...
September 14, 2009 4:53 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
rebuild production Windows 7 system,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 0x00000124 stop error,
Windows 7 error reporting,
Windows 7 stabilityIf you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you already know I've been struggling with strange and unstable behavior on my primary production PC for over a year now, both under Windows Vista and Windows 7 Ultimate editions. I've suspected issues with that machine's motherboard for some...
September 11, 2009 6:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Cecilia K Tittel 1919-2009I got back from a business trip this morning to learn that my Mom, aged 90, passed away peacefully in her sleep last night. She spent the last year and a half of her life in an assisted living facility in Fairfax County, VA, after living with me and my family for just over two years in the home...
September 9, 2009 11:23 AM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
first Windows 7 Patch Tuesday,
only minor security updates for Windows 7,
Windows 7 updatesIt's been long enough since I started using Windows Vista that I'd forgotten the usual pattern of Windows Update postings on a typical "Patch Tuesday" (the first Tuesday of each month is when Microsoft releases all in-cycle security updates, plus a monthly reworking of the Windows Malicious...
September 8, 2009 2:33 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Windows 7 Device staging,
Windows 7 Devices and Printers,
Windows 7 offers device-sensitive Autoplay functionsOne interesting change in interface and behavior in Windows 7 is the addition of the Devices and Printers option in the Start menu (depicted below). This new facility not only shows you the devices installed on or known to your Windows 7 PC, it also provides a staging area where it is easy to add...
