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Simon is an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft UK, everything here is his own thoughts and opinion. -
The Rough Guide to Windows 7
My book that helps you get the most out of Microsoft's latest operating system, setup your home network and much more besides.
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Category Archives: Windows 7
The argument for Silverlight as part of your corporate optimized desktop
What do you deploy to your people as part of your corporate standard desktop? Windows 7 – yep gota have that! Office 2010? Yep you know you need to moving to it if you want your people to work as efficiently as possible. MDOP – we… Continue reading
Excellent paper on IE6 compatibility with Windows 7
I was just browsing around our internal sites and found this excellent white paper on Solutions for Virtualising Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), what amazed me was that it was externally available.
If you’ve got some applications that rely on IE6 (lik… Continue reading
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The book that stuns everyone in the office
Today I went to grab a copy of the Windows 7 resource kit that I reserved from the learning center to read on holiday. It has since been used as a dumbell, a door stop and has as a booster … Continue reading
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Little things in Windows 7 still make me smile
I’ve been using Windows 7 for almost 18 months now and the little things still make me very happy. That’s an important thing to remember because people love this OS for it’s simplicity, deploying it will make them feel better.&… Continue reading
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User Account Control explained really well
I was just browsing around on TechNet for info and came across Paul Addams blog and a post about UAC. It’s one of the best write ups of what UAC is and why you should be using it not turning it off that I’ve seen. It goes into superb te… Continue reading
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Confused about deploying Windows 7? Try this…
Lots of people are looking at how they should go about deploying Windows 7 in their organisation, a few I’ve seen first hand are struggling to understand how to migrate. One of the major steps in planning your deployment is probably to bui… Continue reading
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How to Take Full Advantage of Your Solid-State Drive
Very handy little guide form Lifehacker here on how to get the best out of an SSD. I’ve just ordered one for my “demo beast” laptop and it should help my VMs fly…interesting ideas around hibernation in this guide…not something … Continue reading
The Arc Keyboard: White | The Office Stylist
I thought the black version was good, but now I’m all about the white version. I’ll be getting me one these, it;s stunning and will look super in our all white office! The Arc Keyboard: White | The Office Stylist. … Continue reading
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Bing Screensaver
The Live Side guys have noticed a new Bing Screensaver that looks very cool if you like the Bing daily images. Bing Screensaver – LiveSide.net. I’m currently using my Honeymoon photo’s as my wallpaper and screensaver and I’ll post a … Continue reading
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Getting Your Laptop Card Reader to Read 4GB SD Cards
Windows 7 is amazing at getting most things working on any laptop, however I constantly have a problem with my very old Gateway laptop and the card reader driver. This is how to fix it: Getting Your Laptop Card Reader to … Continue reading
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