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 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...
September 7, 2009 9:41 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Windows 7 Starter edition,
Windows 7 Starter limitations,
Windows 7 Starter on a low-end PC,
Windows 7 Starter on a net-top PCI just bought my wife an ultra-barebones mini-ITX PC from my old buddies at Logic Supply. I outfitted this box and its MSI MS-7265 Core 2 Duo mobo with a Core 2 Duo T2300 processor and also purchased a Panasonic slim-line...
September 4, 2009 3:56 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Asus P5Q3 motherboard,
Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 motherboard,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 Reliability Monitor,
Windows hardware compatibility issuesThose who've been reading this blog for any length of time know I've been fighting with a balky, or perhaps blighted, production PC for some time now. I upgraded this machine to Windows 7 in early August in hopes that it might help with chronic instability issues. Since then, results had been mixed...
August 28, 2009 2:52 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Windows 7,
Windows 7 bug resolution,
Windows 7 chkdsk crash,
Windows 7 error reporting,
Windows 7 quality controlRight around the same time that Windows RTM was posted to TechNet and MSDN (August 6), reports began to surface that Windows 7 was suffering a bluescreen when users would run the CHKDSK utility with the /r switch selected (which locates bad sectors and recovers readable data from them). See this...
August 27, 2009 9:52 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Windows 7 reliability index reporting,
Windows 7 Reliability Monitor,
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