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Managing Remote Hyper-V Servers From Windows 7
I'm using the Mini9 quite a lot lately, at least in part to fiddle with Windows 7. I decided it would be nice to be able to access our Hyper-V servers so I went looking for the management tools...It...
View ArticleWindows 7: Attempting to install to VHD – an odyssey
One of the things I am most impressed about with Windows 7 is the latest Media Center. As a result, I wanted to install the build 7000 beta release onto our media PC at home. However, I already have...
View ArticleAchieving HDMI audio output with ATI hardware on Windows 7 (and Vista)
The steps in this article were figured out with Windows 7. However, they should work just fine with Vista for anybody having the same issues. Note that whilst this is written for ATI hardware, it may...
View ArticleWindows 7 on the Dell Mini 9 with only the 8Gb SSD
In my previous post about getting Windows 7 onto the fantastic Dell Mini 9 I talked about solving things like the driver issues and antivirus. This time I’m going to cover how I installed Windows 7...
View ArticleWindows 7 on the 8Gb SSD Mini 9: Redux
You may remember that I ended my previous post with about 1.6Gb free on the 8Gb SSD of the Mini 9 after installing Windows 7.I still needed to install Office 2007, or at the very least Word and Excel...
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Install System Center Capacity Planner 2007 on Windows 7
I’ve been using Windows 7 for a while now, but I’ve never needed to install the System Center Capacity Planner (Andy usually handles that side of our SharePoint engagements). He now has taken the...
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Creating a new Virtual PC using the Virtual Windows XP Base Disk
One of the most useful elements of the Virtual Windows XP feature in Windows 7 is that the VPC is easily replicated and you can have multiple virtual machines all publishing applications which run in...
View ArticleTwitter clients: Twinbox and Tweetz
Anybody who follows me on twitter will know that @rikhepworth is by no means a prolific tweeter. However, I do follow a number of people around the planet, and in addition to the ubiquitous Tweetie2 on...
View ArticleUnable to remote control Hyper-V VM after installing SharePoint 2010 on...
True to form, you only discover something isn’t working when you’re in a desperate hurry. We use lots of Hyper-V VMs here at Black Marble and they are mostly running on our four node cluster. I use...
View ArticleSolving a mystery: Windows 7 games won’t work on HP TouchSmart TX2
This one has been nagging at me for a long time. My grandmother has an HP TouchSmart TX2 tablet. It was bought with Windows Vista, but as with her main computer, I upgraded it to Windows 7.It was a...
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