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Achieving HDMI audio output with ATI hardware on Windows 7 (and Vista)

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 be the case that NVidia gear suffers from the same problem and this solution should help.

Vista on Dell Mini 9: Using junctions to move files off the SSD

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Flush with my success earlier in getting apps installed on the SD card now mounted as ‘c:\SD Program Files’ I installed a few things. I then hit a snag.

When you install apps using an MSI, the installation files get cached by Windows Installer. Steadily, c:\windows\installer gets bigger and bigger, so whilst my apps were no longer taking up space, the install files were (and some of those are quite large).

Vista on the Dell Mini 9: Installing applications on an SD card

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’m still trying new things with the Mini 9. I now have an image file that I can restore to the Mini which has my base install after running sysprep. The problem I have is storage space – the SSD isn’t quite big enough.

Updating firmware on SPV M3100 (HTC TyTN)

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Still no Windows Mobile 6 update for my Orange SPV M3100, but they did release an update to WM5 recently.

Installing said update turned out to be slightly trickier than I expected. I don’t know if anybody else has experienced the same problem, but a word to the wise - don’t try the update on Windows Vista!

Vista Upgrade - attempts 4, success 0

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have yet to succeed in upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Each time it runs through to the completing upgrade phase, gets about halfway through that bit whereupon I get stuck in a reboot cycle.