Viewing Articles with the tag: XP
Living and Learning with XP: Imaging and Licensing
08.Apr.08 | 6 Comments
For almost a year now, I’ve been using VMware’s Converter in a most useful way at work: As employees move on to other pastures I use Converter to make a virtual machine “image” of their desktop. That way, if it turns out they left something on their machine that was important it isn’t lost forever [...]
Remote Desktop: No Console from Vista?
04.Jan.08 | 18 Comments
[May 15, 2008: If you found this article from a search on XP SP3, please see XP Service Pack 3 -- Remote Desktop Change. Regardless, the answer to the following post can be found in the comments: Try /admin instead of /console]
Back in August, I wrote about how you can use Remote Desktop [...]
MojoPac Goes Free
09.Oct.07 | 4 Comments
Back in April of this year I spent some time trying out MojoPac [My Mojo Experience]. In general I liked it, but after the 30 day trial I just couldn’t rationalize the $50 price tag.
By way of a reminder:
MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a [...]
For Want of Drivers…
19.Aug.07 | 5 Comments
For Want of Drivers… the OS was lost.
- farewell to Vista oration, early Sunday morning
I really enjoyed my brief affair with Microsoft Vista — a lot more than I would have expected. However, I’m switching my laptop back to XP.
Why? Drivers.
I have one device that I flat out can’t find drivers for. My attempt to [...]
Windows XP WiFi: The Missing Patch
10.Apr.07 | 2 Comments
Here’s a little tip I picked up from the Security Now podcast.
Did you know that even if you diligently run Windows Update and get all the critical and optional patches, there’s one patch you still won’t have if you’re running XP SP2 and WiFi? This one, you have to know to go ask for by name. [...]
