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• VHD boot and c00002e2 Errors

  For some reason that is beyond me now I did not setup my Lab Manager test system to be a VHD boot. So before installing the 2010 RC version I decided to P2V this system (on the same hardware) to make backups easier whilst testing. All seemed to go well... Posted Mar 18 2010, 07:58 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS, Windows 7, MTM

• Windows 7 Boot from VHD

  I have been having a play with the boot from VHD functions in Windows 7, it seems like a really useful feature when you need the raw power of your PC, but would like the ease of management of Virtual PCs (i.e. can copy them around and archive them), There... Posted Sep 17 2009, 11:47 AM by Richard with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Technical Tips, Windows 7

• And another nice feature for Windows 7

  Homegroup certainly make home networking easier, especially when the PC is part of a domain as well, it just works. No more fiddling with rights between home accounts and domain users. Posted Aug 31 2009, 12:17 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Windows 7

• Update on Media Center on Windows 7

  Since the upgrade of my Media Center PC to Windows 7 I have had a few problems with fast forward on recorded TV and DVDs (which I had not seen on Vista). It was as if the fast forward button on my remote got jammed on and I could not go back to standard... Posted Aug 31 2009, 11:36 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Windows 7, MCE

• Red button works in the BBC Interactive

  Cool, I just noticed that on Windows 7 Media Center with a Hauppauge Nova 500 T Tuner card the red button works; so at last I can get Digital Teletext and interactive channels on the BBC without having to know their actual channel numbers (and as I remember... Posted Aug 15 2009, 04:28 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Windows 7, MCE

• Upgrading my Media Center to Windows 7

  Over the past couple of days I have upgraded my Vista based Media Center to Windows 7. After my previous experiences upgrading from XP here ,  here   and here I decided to do a new install onto a new 1Tb disk as opposed to an in place upgrade... Posted Aug 14 2009, 11:29 PM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technical Tips, Windows 7, MCE

• Updating Windows 7 Beta to RC

  The upgrade took about 2 hours following the ‘ enable in-place upgrade ’ notes. There was a lot of no progress bar movement & percentages not changing whilst the disk light flashed, but we got there in the end. Thus far all seems OK. so the summary... Posted May 06 2009, 04:24 PM by Richard with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows 7

• Licensing exception with Ivonna the Typemock add-in (and any other add-ins I suspect)

  Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily... Posted Apr 25 2009, 07:51 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Technical Tips, Testing, Windows 7, Typemock

• Error 1722 when installing MVC 1.0

  As I am sure you will have heard the MVC 1.0 has been released. I downloaded this on my Windows 7 and tried to install it but got an Error 1722, the MSI then rolled back. Turns out the problem was simply that I had Visual Studio open at the time I installed... Posted Mar 19 2009, 05:09 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Technical Tips, Windows 7

• Problem hosting WCF using Cassini on Windows 7

  I have been working on an internal legacy application at our place that is being slowly moved from ASMX to WCF services. At present the services are a mixture of the two and there is a new WCF based client making connections to both types as needed. This... Posted Jan 24 2009, 10:41 AM by Richard with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Technical Tips, Windows 7

• Installing an MSI on Windows 7 fails after 16th January 2009

  I am using Windows 7 Beta on my main PC, whilst trying to install an application today I hit a problem, the installer failed on start-up. Firstly I thought it was a corrupt MSI so I tried another application, but it did the same. When I checked the Windows... Posted Jan 19 2009, 09:18 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Windows 7

• First thoughts on Windows 7 Beta

  I had the PDC CTP on my Netbook and that was OK so I had not expected any major issues. That said it has not been without problems, but all the issues I have logged as part of the beta program have been related to hardware detection (missing base stations... Posted Jan 12 2009, 08:59 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Opinion, Windows 7