Month: February 2011

If you haven’t heard of Rearm (or SkipRearm before) then this is a tricky little thing that Microsoft has introduced into Windows Vista and Windows 7, as part of the more complex activation thingys. And it is an annoying thing. Any one image can only be sysprepped three times before you get this thing kicking…

Well the subject of this post is that everyone should be getting used to 64 bit operating systems and migrating to them. Today I saw a laptop that had 4 GB of RAM, the very latest HP that we can lease for a school in the TELA scheme. With the 32 bit edition of Windows…

We have successfully completed our first ever mass deployment of computers using the Native Boot VHD technology of Windows 7. This article carries additional detail of the deployment phase of this project. The average transfer rate for the 15 GB VHD over the network was around 45-55 MB per minute equating to around 4-5 hours…

D-Day is Deployment Deadline Day. D-Day is also the day where I have had a record amount of trouble with my work computer, which has had to be restarted twice so far, firstly when Explorer crashed and wouldn’t restart, and then the second time Windows Live Writer wouldn’t load. The process of getting from a…

File and registry virtualisation in Windows 7 and Vista is a new technology that deals with the requirement of some applications to be able to write data in locations where the user does not have access permissions, as well as the user inadvertently choosing these locations. The latter functionality in particular can trip you or…