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Solving a mystery: Windows 7 games won’t work on HP TouchSmart TX2

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Unable to remote control Hyper-V VM after installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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 Failover Cluster Manager and this morning I couldn’t connect remotely to any of the Hyper-V VMs. I kept getting an error:

Twitter clients: Twinbox and Tweetz

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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 my iPhone, I have found two clients to be useful and reliable.

Creating a new Virtual PC using the Virtual Windows XP Base Disk

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 their own sandboxes.

Install System Center Capacity Planner 2007 on Windows 7

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 plunge with Microsoft’s shiny OS and hit a problem: SCCP refused to install with an error message saying it was only supported on Windows XP (!)

Windows 7 on the 8Gb SSD Mini 9: Redux

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 for the ‘book to be useful. I therefore rummaged out another 16Gb SD card and revisited my earlier vista post about installing apps to an SD card. This time I simply let the card allocate a drive letter and installed Office to d:\Program Files instead.

Windows 7 on the Dell Mini 9 with only the 8Gb SSD

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 onto the 8Gb SSD version of the Mini 9.

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.

Windows 7: Attempting to install to VHD – an odyssey

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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 that working nicely with Windows Vista and, frankly, I didn’t want to have to repeatedly reinstall if the beta caused problems.

Managing Remote Hyper-V Servers From Windows 7

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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…

Windows 7 on the Dell Mini 9

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

What better way to try Windows 7 then installing it on the Mini 9? Having read all the commentary about the smaller footprint of the new OS I couldn’t resist.

TechEd EMEA IT: Day 2 - Windows 7 Feature Preview

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

So, the first session of the day was an extremely well-attended overview of Windows 7 features. When they talk about evolution rather than revolution with regard to Windows 7, I think that’s accurate. It was very much about developing and extending the foundations of Vista.