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Easy Test Drive of Win 8 / Server 2012

  By Chris | October 16, 2012 - 9:31 pm | Tech
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I attended a small event last week at the local Microsoft office. It was called an “installfest” and was led by IT Pro Evangelist Harold Wong (what an awesome title he has!). This was an informal event geared towards helping folks quickly get up and running with evaluation versions of … Continue reading →

Tagged dual-boot, tutorial, VHD, windows-2012, Windows-7, windows-8

Living with Win7 Starter Edition

  By Chris | June 18, 2011 - 7:48 pm | Tech
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Several weeks ago I received a little Toshiba netbook (model NB255). Last year’s model, but sporting the dual-core Atom N455 processor, 250 GB drive — and I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB before even leaving the store. Stunning how many netbooks with 1GB RAM that can’t be upgraded! It … Continue reading →

Tagged netbook, wallpaper, Windows-7, Windows-7-Starter

Firefox 4 and Two Quick Tips

  By Chris | March 24, 2011 - 10:24 pm | Tech
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By now you’ve no doubt heard that Firefox 4 was released last week. I had used it through a few beta and release candidate releases and like it a lot. Here are a couple small tips that I thought I’d share. One specific to XP and the other to Windows … Continue reading →

Tagged browsers, firefox, tip, Windows-7, XP

Win7 SP1 and IE Issues

  By Chris | March 10, 2011 - 8:28 pm | Tech
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I wasn’t paying attention closely enough last night and before I realized it I had accepted the recently released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 onto my work machine. The install went smoothly enough but since then? Not so great. Internet Explorer stops working very frequently now. The funny thing is, … Continue reading →

Tagged ie, patches, service-pack, Windows-7

Windows NFS: Don’t Forget .maphosts

  By Chris | July 25, 2010 - 9:43 am | Tech
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I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair … Continue reading →

Tagged backup, microsoft, NFS, Openfiler, Tech-Ops, Windows, Windows-7
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