Windows 8 – Consumer Preview
Who put the Child Proof cap on Windows 7? I Fired up the Windows 8 Consumer Preview via VirtualBox on a Mac Laptop. What can I say – this is first time I’ve not been impressed, excited, […]
Tag: Windows
Local Domain – Mac
Setting up a private, internal or test network and have Mac clients? Do not use .LOCAL! I setup my Windows 2008 domain as .LOC – worked like a charm and my Mac clients were happy. Starting […]
SCCM 2007 Native Mode – PKI Certificate
Environment: Testing server for SCCM 2007 in Native mode on Server 2008. IIS, SQL Express 2005 SP2 and WSUS 3.0 already installed. Steps to setup PKI for Native mode Get some coffee, maybe a sandwich and […]
Windows Movie Maker 2.6 – Windows 7
Stumped by limitations of Windows Movie Maker Live I went in search of an alternate free video editing program. Lo and behold I found an old friend. Microsoft had stopped development of Windows Movie Maker after Windows Vista so I hadn’t used it […]
Windows Screenshots
Dear people hear me and hear me now. Next person sends me a 9meg “screenshot” is getting signed up to the Ron Paul contributors list. PrtScn takes a screenshot of your entire display. Unless you hate […]
Illegal File Name – Compact Flash card
When taking pictures my Nikon D90‘s display had flashed that the card needed to be formatted “frm”. I’ve seen this before and simply power off the camera, then reset the card and all is well. I […]
ITMU 3 – deploying patches with SMS 2003 SP3
Patch process using ITMU v3 and SMS 2003 I’m patching end user clients only (no servers) only and this process accommodates a business requirement to patch machines but not force a reboot for 4 days. Install patches […]
Windows Vista – Logon Process Initialization Failure
Error message when Windows loads – “Logon Process Initialization Failure”
– Interactive logon process initialization has failed
– Please consult the event log for more details (I would love to but uh I can’t)
Free Windows software tools – My favs
Want to download some or all of this software all at once? Try Ninite.com Audio/Video VLC Media Player – Cross platform do everything player Songbird – Open Source music player Audacity – Free Audio editor and […]
A brief history of Windows PCs
Your computer is what’s often (derogatorily) referred to as a “WinTel” machine on which the software is dominated by Microsoft Windows and the hardware is dominated by Intel. Intel was founded by three unhappy Fairchild Semiconductor […]