Category Archive: Windows Home Server

Sep 01 2009

Windows Home Server Add-in

Here in the UK we had a bank holiday yesterday which of course meant we had 3 days off.  So I spent some time with the wife over the last few days and decided that I would embark on new project. Last week I was looking at the plug-ins for Windows Home Server.  I came …

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Jan 03 2009

Windows Home Server

A month or so ago I started to copy a 40mb file to my WHS (HP MediaSmart).  The resulting copy dialog reported that it was going to take 30+ mins to copy.  At first I thought it was a Windows Vista Issue.  So boot up my XP laptop and copied a file still slow.  From …

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Dec 05 2008

Remote Backing Up

I have an idea for Window Home Server,  Remote backup, this could be used to backup laptops while on the move and family computers also…

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Jul 30 2008

Windows Home Server

  I’ve spent the last couple of evenings playing around with my latest purchase, HP MediaSmart Server. I’m pretty happy with it, I bought the 1TB version. I’ve had a few issues with the setup.  The first being that I’m running Vista 64bit and the software (HP and Microsoft) out the box isn’t doesn’t work …

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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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