about 6 months ago - No comments
A couple of days ago, I got my hands on a copy of Windows 7 Professional through MSDNAA. Both of my computers were already running on the release candidate and have now been updated to the final build, both with fresh installs.
First, some background info: It should be said that I’m not exactly a huge [...]
about 9 months ago - No comments
So, yesterday, I installed the Windows 7 RC (Again, 64bit) onto my laptop (a Thinkpad T61p).
At first, drivers seemed to be a bit of a problem, as I couldn’t get the generic Nvidia driver to install on my laptop (Most vendors only allow their specific video drivers to be installed for some reason). However, Windows [...]
about 10 months ago - 2 comments
For the last couple of days, I’ve been playing with the RC of Windows 7 x64, and I thought I’d post some thoughts.
For the most part, W7 looks a lot like Vista, as they both use the same themes. The only major difference is the new taskbar, which does away with text labels in favor [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
So, after I posted my method for building and testing XPe images in Workstation, I was asked to get my XPe VMs working in ESX as well. ESX uses an older version of VMware’s Virtual Hardware, so XPe VMs I created with my previous method will not run if transferred directly to an ESX machine.
Creating [...]
about 1 year ago - 15 comments
XP Embedded Studio isn’t actually a horrible application at it’s core. Now, the user interface and documentation are God-awful, which is why I’m writing this post. As you saw in my last two entries, I’ve been working with XPe for the last few days, and there has been plenty of frustration to go along with [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Trying again to deal with XPe only lead to more frustrations today. I managed to get the virtual disk marked as bootable, and the virtual machine did start up, but then I was faced with another problem. As is, the image would complain that it couldn’t find System32driverspci.sys, so, I rebuilt the image and included [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Today, I had a unique opportunity to work with Window XP Embedded.
*Shudders*
Microsoft has made some lousy products in the past, but the Embedded SDK has to be one of the worst. The application isn’t remotely intuitive to use, and even once you’ve learned what you’re doing, it’s not easy. The task I had was simple: [...]
about 2 years ago - No comments
As a computer science student, I’m allowed access to free copies of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Recently, I’ve been downloading and trying different versions of it out of pure boredom, and felt like typing up some impressions. The versions of Windows that I looked at were 2000 Professional SP4, XP Professional SP2, 2003 [...]
about 2 years ago - 5 comments
There are several ways to run Windows applications under Linux. One of the most common ways is through wine, which redirects system calls to effectively emulate windows programs under Linux. Another popular solution is through virtualization products such as VMWare. In this post, I will describe a method for virtualizing single applications rather [...]
about 3 years ago - No comments
Yesterday, Microsoft opened up Windows Vista for a public beta, so I thought, “What the hell, I’ll give it a try.”
First off, downloading the DVD image was a pain. Microsoft really needs to learn the virtues of bittorrent. The download would disconnect after only a few minutes, whether using a direct download or [...]
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