Category Archive: Vista

Jun 30 2008

Windows SBS 2008

  I’ would like to be writing about Windows SBS 2008… but I’m having a hard time getting things up and running. SBS 2008 is a 64bit OS, because Windows Server 2008 is a 64 bit OS, nothing really surprising about this. So how do we test new software these days, we tend to use …

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Jun 26 2008

Vista Complete PC Backup

  I purchase a WD MyBook USB drive…. which I have to say I’m liking so far…. Cheapist £50 for 300GB… Any how I ran Vista Complete PC Backup, Last night, which creates a VHD image of you PC’s HDD. It doesn’t boot, but you can add it to existing Virtual PC as a second …

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Aug 14 2007

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

  This seems to have been kept very quite… Virtual Server now runs on Vista.. At last I can build small test networks…. No information on the blogs that I subscribe to…. Download

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Sep 09 2006

Windows Vista RC (Build 5600)

Installed this last night and I’m playing around with it this morning. Noticed you could create a backup for your password to floppy disk! Is not the age were most people have USB pen drives, XD, SD, Compact Flash Drives in there PC’s…. Yes leave the option to select a floppy disk but give us …

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Sep 07 2006

Vista Public Download

I was a bit slow on this one, but the Public Download of Vista RC1 is now available here. It will be interesting to play about with after the great press/reviews this release has been receiving of late.

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Jul 31 2006

Windows Vista VHD CompletePC File..

I have tried this and the images doesn’t boot, I have only tried with Virtual PC 2004 SP1 and not with Virtual Server R2 as of yet, I’ll let you know.

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Jul 27 2006

Windows Virtual Server/PC VHD files…

As Microsoft has opened up the VHD file format would it not be cool if you could use Ghost 9/10 to ghost that PC’s HDD into a VHD file and you could then boot that PC up? This would be very useful…..   UPDATE: Regarding VISTA Complete PC, see here.

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