March 13, 2009 4:52 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
Windows 7,
Windows 7 beta,
Windows 7 build 7048,
Windows VistaLong-time Windows expert Ed Bott posted an extremely interesting, if not downright intruiging blog yesterday on ZDNet. It's entitled "Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now?," and proceeds to make a reasonably convincing case...
March 9, 2009 8:50 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Acronis Disk Partition Manager,
backup disk partition,
boot manager,
copy disk partition,
create disk partition,
EASEUS Partition Master,
Enterprise Vista,
gparted,
merge disk partition,
Paragon Partition Manager,
Partition Magic,
partition mangement,
Vista boot manager,
Vista Disk Management utility,
Vista troubleshooting,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista boot manager,
Windows Vista troubleshootingIf the care and feeding of your Vista systems is anything like mine, from time to time there's just no getting away from messing with disk partitions. For me, that means one of several activities gets underway:
- Migrating a notebook or desktop user from a smaller drive to a larger one,...
March 6, 2009 8:51 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise Vista,
Fiasco 2009 Award,
Fiasco award,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingGosh, I love writing headlines because they can say so much and so little at the same time. Today's blog makes a terrific case in point. It refers to the recent Fiasco award for 2009, chosen by an anonymous Fiasco Awards Team, which was in turn sponsored by the Catalan Association of...
February 27, 2009 5:08 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista deployment,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Vista SP2 RC,
Windows Vista SP2 release candidateOn Wednesday, February 25, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager for the Windows Client Communications Team, posted information to...
February 23, 2009 5:36 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
beta SP2,
Enterprise Vista,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista SP2Last week, Microsoft an RC (Release Candidate) build for Windows Vista/Server 2008 SP2 through the Microsoft Connect program to a select group of pre-qualified beta testers. According to Mary Jo Foley's ZDNet coverage on this topic, the latest build number...
February 18, 2009 4:54 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Enterprise desktop,
enterprise Vista desktop,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista OS downgrade,
Windows Vista OS upgradeThe latest Vista flap originates from a lawsuit filed against Microsoft Corporation stemming from fees assessed to Los Angeles computer user Emma Alvarado for downgrading a Lenovo notebook PC from Windows Vista to Windows...
February 5, 2009 4:00 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Add new tag,
customizing WinPE,
Enterprise desktop,
Enterprise Vista,
extending WinPE,
scripting WinPE,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshooting,
WinPE,
WinPE Bootable UFDAs I've learned to build various types of bootable CDs and UFDs with the Vista-based WinPE environment, I've also been working to learn more about its inner workings and capabilities. As I struggled to figure out how to add Windows Explorer and some kind of Web browser to a runtime WinPE image...
January 19, 2009 8:19 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
adult education,
career development,
career planning,
continuing education,
Microsoft courses,
Microsoft e-Learning,
OS training,
Windows VistaStarting Up Windows Vista covers hardware startup, BIOS, POST, then bootstrap load via MBR, and takes you all the way through the boot-up process until the initial log-in prompt appears, after which the login process, services start-up, and the overal startup process completes. I learned a fair...
January 19, 2009 4:48 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
antimalware,
antispyware,
antivirus,
HijackThis,
rootkit,
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (mrt.exe),
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingLike clockwork, Microsoft proffers up a new version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tools on each and every Patch Tuesday. In January, 2009, that item is described in Knowledge Base article KB890830. This tool is not intended to...
