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In my previous post I wrote about the development of the native boot VHD capability in Windows 7. As I noted, the specifics of this functionality is that a VHD can be copied to a destination computer’s hard disk and attached as a boot device. Windows can then be booted via the VHD file. There…

A while back I wrote about my experiments in using MDT to back up laptops. Some of my MDT shares got moved to a new server recently and the backup share had to be set up again from scratch, which for some reason proved exceptionally difficult but it has happened eventually. However while I was…

As a recent post noted, Offline Files is still a temperamental technology that I have decided is not worth the effort on Windows 7. So what other systems can you use? Take note of the following: By default, Windows 7 will create a restore point on the laptop’s hard drive every day. This can be…

One of the most distasteful features of using Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers in a domain environment is their tendency to freeze during the Group Policy application phase of user logon. Although it is known that there were some instances of this occurring with Windows XP as well, we never saw these happen in…

Well, Windows Live Essentials has been updated to the 2011 edition and they have, at last, gone back to proper toolbars with icons, replacing text labelled buttons in the last few editions. In fact, the WLE applications (I’m using Writer to post this) are now using the Ribbon like Office does, this is the first…