Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Ron Bertino
I’ve managed to find a freeware product that allows you to take an image backup of any partition (including the system partition) while the server is still live.
It’s capable of using a “volume lock” or “volume shadow copy services”. The latter will only interrupt server access for a matter of around 5 seconds or […]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Here’s a large list of useful free MS Office 2007 software. You’ll find templates, add-ins, tools, training guides, extensions and many other goodies.
And here’s a large list of Windows Vista goodies, all of which are absolutely free.
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Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Ron Bertino
A report was recently released suggesting that user productivity has taken a step back in Windows Vista, when compared to the level of user productivity in Windows XP.
The researcher may be correct in terms of certain functions in Windows Vista being slower than in Windows XP, but the main issue being ignored are the many […]
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Posted on March 10th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Ed Bott has recently posted a tutorial on how to legally get an extended 4 month trial of Windows Vista.
On the other hand, if you’re an IT manager, you should be aware of the fact that hackers have recently cracked the Windows Vista activation. So you may want to keep an eye out for […]
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Posted on February 25th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Microsoft have been working hard the last few years on Windows Vista. On February 1st 2007 Microsoft finally released the various editions of Windows Vista to the general public. They didn’t get the mad midnight openings with hundreds of people just waiting to pounce when the retail store doors were opened. The […]
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Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Those of you who have been using NT based Microsoft operating systems would all be very familiar with the good old boot.ini file which is normally on the root of your C: drive.
Boot.ini is just a plain text file, which can relatively easily be modified and tweaked.
With the release of Windows Vista, the boot.ini has […]
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Posted on February 9th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
The first bunch of free extras for Windows Vista Ultimate users recently became available for download.
If you’re running any other version of Windows Vista, then you’ll just have to get on by without them. Where’s the love Microsoft?
So what’s in stock for you in these updates? Here’s the list:
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Posted on February 8th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Speech recognition in Windows Vista has been vastly improved, when compared to prior editions of this kind of technology by Microsoft.
The question is: does it work?
There’s a lot of “Vista bashing” going on at the moment, and it certainly didn’t help matters when Microsoft did a public demonstration of the speech recognition technology where the […]
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Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Here’s a guy that can demonstrate how to install Windows Vista in under 5 minutes.
Somehow I doubt that Microsoft would be very impressed though.
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