Having installed an early Windows 7 build on an old HP TC1100 Tablet PC I’m very impressed with its performance, it’s far faster than Vista SP2
Tag archives: Vista
Vista SP1 bigger than you thought?
It turns out that after installing SP1, the process leaves behind ~800MB of original Windows files to allow uninstallation. After filling up my old laptop last night a quick search found this article pointing to a cleanup utility that sits in the Windows\System32 folder. To run the utility, start a command prompt as an admin …
Vista Search Syntax
In between some meetings today I did some reading around Windows Desktop Search and Vista Search. Although its not something we currently ‘officially’ supply, we’re seeing more people using WDS and Google Desktop. Not really a problem but when people start indexing the network shares our file servers and network don’t like it much… So …
Group Policy Preferences
Back in the day I used to look after big desktop deployments both here at Atkins and a few other places. Managing large numbers of desktops is always a problem. There’s no doubt that managed desktops are A Good Thing(TM), but the tools available to do the job were always a bit harsh on either …
Windows 7 next year?
An article on Techmeme is suggesting that Windows 7 might have moved forward a year and arrive sometime late in 09. Whether this is true or not who knows, but from my perspective as an enterprise customer it would make some sense – and probably make my life easier in the long run! Selling a …