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My session today at Modern Jago
Wed, Jan 23 2013 14:06
Thanks  to everyone who came along to the Microsoft event today at Modern Jago. I hope you all found it useful. I got feedback from a few people that my tip on not trusting company WIFI when trying to do remote debugging of Windows RT devices was useful (or any other type of device for that matter). I have seen too many corporate level Wifi implementation... Read More...
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Moving to an SSD on Lenovo W520
Tue, Oct 23 2012 4:20
I have just reinstalled Windows 8 (again) on my Lenovo W520. This time it was because I moved to a Crucial m4 256Gb 2.5” internal SSD as my primary disk. There is a special slot for this type of drive under the keyboard, so I could also keep my 750Gb Hybrid SATA drive to be used for storing virtual machines. I had initially planned to backup/restore my previous... Read More...
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Update on my experiences with Lenovo W520 Drivers and Windows 8
Mon, Sep 3 2012 6:50
After I installed Windows 8 RTM I still had two devices missing drivers. I have made a little progress Base System Device - was the Ricoh PCIe SDXC/MMC Host controller I used this Win 8 beta driver Unknown driver – seems to be the Lenovo Power Management devices. However the  Win 8 Beta driver   fails to install. I had to use the Windows 7 driver, installed... Read More...
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A move to Windows 8 RTM (and VS2012 RTM), not too painful
Thu, Aug 16 2012 10:45
First I thought I could do an in-place upgrade of my Windows 8RC PC, turns out you can’t (not sure if it would have been wise anyway) so it was format disk time. I had hoped for a seamless install of Windows 8, but it hung after detecting devices. It seems it was the ‘old problem’ down to Lenovo/Nvidia Optimus graphics drivers issues. So I checked my bios settings... Read More...
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Drivers needed on my Lenovo W520 with Windows 8 RP
Thu, Jun 7 2012 12:27
I posted recently on running Win8 RP on my Lenovo W520 , well a few days on it is still working fine. I have adopted by usual practice of installing as few hardware vendor drivers/tool as possible, as I tend to find these make matters worse  most of the time. However, I as expected I could not only rely on just what came with Windows 8. On installing Windows... Read More...
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Windows 8 RP and my Lenovo W520
Fri, Jun 1 2012 16:49
I tried to install the Windows 8 CP on my Lenovo W520 with no success as I posted about in the past .I was only able to install Windows 8 CP only if I disabled the Nvidia graphics card and just used the integrated Intel controller. This was of no real use as I need dual monitors. With the release of Windows 8 RP I though I would try again. The first attempt failed... Read More...
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Interested in Windows 8 Development?
Sun, May 13 2012 10:15
Are you interested in Windows 8 Development? Well if you are Black Marble are running  a free event on Windows 8 on the 30th of May in Leeds . Also Jon Fowler, one of our development leads has just started a series of blog posts on converting Prims to .NET for Windows 8 metro style apps . This is all tied to his port of Prism to Metro which you can download... Read More...
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Upcoming Black Marble event on Windows 8
Tue, Sep 27 2011 5:09
In case you did not make it to the Microsoft Build Conference , Black Marble are running a pair of free events in Leeds on the 12th of October on Windows 8 and the other announcements made in Anaheim earlier this month. The morning session is focused on the IT pro side and the afternoon on development, so why not make a day of it? To get more information, and... Read More...
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Bitlocker keeps asking for my recovery key after a change in my disk’s MBR
Wed, Sep 14 2011 12:40
My development laptop is bitlocker’ed , and yours should be too. It provides a great and non-invasive way (assuming you have a TPM chip) to protect you and your clients data on a machine that is far to easy to steal or loose. However, whilst fiddling with Windows 8 I did trip myself up. I have my PC setup for a boot to Windows 7 from a bitlocker’ed drive C with... Read More...
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First try with Windows8 and it won’t boot
Wed, Sep 14 2011 12:16
I tried to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my Lenovo W520 laptop as a VHD boot. All seemed to go well following the same process as for windows 7 . I got a nice new blue Window 8 boot partition choice screen (which went back to the Windows 7 DOS like one after I made Windows 7 my default partition). If I selected Windows 8 it tried to but but ended up... Read More...
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