December 28, 2009 7:01 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
upgrading a PC from a standard Windows 7 image,
Windows 7 standard image,
Windows 7 upgradeOrganizations seeking to upgrade up to 200 desktops to Windows 7 will want to check out this Small and Midsize Business Corner article on TechNet "Upgrading to Windows 7 with a Standard Image:...
October 2, 2009 6:05 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
migrate from XP to Windows 7,
Windows 7 only PCmover,
Windows 7 upgrade,
Windows Easy TransferOne of the big bugaboos of Windows 7 is its inability to directly upgrade systems from XP to Windows 7. Considering that 80% of business users who run Windows are still running Windows XP (source: Gartner Small Business Outlook for 2009) this is bound to irk IT professionals and end-users alike. In...
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...
August 24, 2009 2:16 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
HP LaserJet 4M Plus drivers for Windows 7,
Samsung ML-2851ND workgroup laser printer,
Windows 7 update printer drivers,
Windows 7 upgradeBack in 1994, I traded a copy of NetWare 4 50-user with a reseller for a brand-new HP LaserJet 4M 600-dpi PostScript model. It's stuck with me through two versions of Windows NT (3.51 and 4.0), Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, plus Windows Server versions through 2008 (R1). I was pleased to be able to...
August 17, 2009 6:58 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Windows 7 driver issues,
Windows 7 upgrade,
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor beta,
Windows 7 Visual Studio 2008 minor issueLast Thursday, I suffered a BIOS flash problem on my primary test machine that resulted in a completely dead motherboard: no post, no action at startup except for lights and fan up, followed by an immediate shutdown. A little research showed that my Asus P5K is one of a very few modern motherboards...
August 10, 2009 4:21 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
production PC migration to Windows 7,
TechNet: Step-by-Step Widnows 7 Upgrade and Migration,
Windows 7 migration,
Windows 7 upgradeI stumbled across an interesting TechNet Step-by-Step piece this morning as I started researching the Vista to Windows 7 migration subject. I just upgraded two machines over the weekend, in the wake of the RTM release to MSDN at noon CDT on Thursday. Once the downloads were completed (that took...
