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  • Windows 8 forums..

    The MS Community forum is busy..  As usual after the release of a new operating system, there are all types of failures. Why does this happen? Incompatibility, Incompatibility, Incompatibility,. What constitutes a perfectly running Windows 7 installation does not necessarily constitute a perfectly...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Oct 27 2012
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  • Windows 8 – Living with it..

    This operating system has been designed for multiple machine types, and you will most likely use Windows 8 because it is part of the deal when you buy a new computer. After the initial setup and personalisation, this is what you will see.. This is a screenshot of mine, and I have added one or two items...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Oct 26 2012
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  • Windows 8 drivers.. Graphics

    If you had no Windows 7 support, you will get no Windows 8 support. ATI have Windows 8 drivers up and ready for the HD 7000, 600o and 5000. Conspicuous by their absence are the HD 4000, 3000 and 2000. Windows 8 has basic support for these, so don’t expect good gaming graphics even with the simpler games...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Oct 26 2012
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  • Windows 8: The Same Old Microsoft Operating System?

    By Sandro Villinger, Technical Product Consultant, TuneUp The imminent release of Windows 8 has us all on the edge of our seats, and wondering how big the performance and power enhancements will be. Will the new operating system actually live up to its...
    Posted to Minty White by on Thu, Oct 25 2012
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  • Windows 8 drivers..

    In this case, Realtek HD Audio.. The symptoms.. Some media files played ok and some didn’t. YouTube files were worst hit, even ones that I had downloaded. Was IE10 the culprit? No, because playing YouTube stuff in Opera produced the same results. The solution.. Realtek have HD Audio drivers for Windows...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Oct 24 2012
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  • A decent Start menu..

    .. makes all the difference.. This is Windows 8, complete with Quick Launch, Stardock’s Start8 and the Canada theme pack. It looks and behaves just like Windows 7, apart from the lack of gadgets. The toughest learning curve so far has been the Start8 menu. It took all of five minutes. The general appearance...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, Oct 23 2012
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  • Upgrade to Windows 8 Pro [How To]

    You can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, released on October 26th, 2012 in a number of ways. This guide will show you your options and show you how to upgrade based on your choice: Upgrade from Windows XP, Vista, or 7 via upgrade Disc Upgrade from Windows XP...
    Posted to Minty White by on Tue, Oct 23 2012
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  • DnsClient module: #2 DnsClient & Cache

    The DnsClient module has a number of Get- cmdlets Get-DnsClient | Format-List InterfaceAlias, ConnectionSpecificSuffix, Register*, UseSuffix* An example of the output is InterfaceAlias                 : Ethernet ConnectionSpecificSuffix      ...
    Posted to Richard Siddaway's Blog by RichardSiddaway on Tue, Oct 23 2012
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  • Moving to an SSD on Lenovo W520

    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...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Oct 23 2012
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  • Moving to an SSD on Lenovo W520

    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...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Oct 23 2012
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  • Four days to go..

    After sorting out a system image for Windows 7, I ran the Windows 8 upgrade this evening. The whole process took around an hour to complete, and I am pleased to report that almost everything is working. Hardware is all up and running and my old Canon Lide 30 scanner works after updating to the latest...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Oct 22 2012
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  • DnsClient module: #1 Get-DnsClientServerAddress

    Started to investigate the DnsClient module.  First cmdlet to catch my eye was Get-DnsClientServerAddress. Always good to know a way to find the DNS server. PS> Get-DnsClientServerAddress InterfaceAlias               Interface...
    Posted to Richard Siddaway's Blog by RichardSiddaway on Tue, Oct 16 2012
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  • PowerShell 3 and Word

      This is a common scenario $word = New-Object -ComObject "Word.application" $word . visible = $true $doc = $word . Documents . Add ( ) $doc . Activate ( ) $word . Selection . Font . Name = "Cambria" $word . Selection . Font . Size = "20" $word . Selection . TypeText...
    Posted to Richard Siddaway's Blog by RichardSiddaway on Mon, Oct 15 2012
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  • CDXML modules and nouns

    CDXML modules don’t expose the verb and the noun of the cmdlets they publish.  If you want to discover the set of nouns in a CDXML module you need a bit of brute force: Get-Command -Module DhcpServer | foreach {   ($_.Name -split "-")[1] }  | sort | group -NoElement | sort count...
    Posted to Richard Siddaway's Blog by RichardSiddaway on Sun, Oct 14 2012
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  • Can’t wait for Windows 8?

    You should be so lucky. I have it but can’t get it to run particularly well. I hooked up the Windows 8 drive today, and I knew it was 8 because that is how many minutes elapsed before it was usable. I uninstalled Start8 and installed Classic Shell in between the freezes, and also tried the three major...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Oct 13 2012
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  • Windows 8 update

    The first Windows 8 update became available this week.  This fixes some issues that have come up during the OEM process.  Fast and frequent updates sound good to me. In addition number of apps have been updated – one I really like is the addition of conversation groupings to the mail app. ...
    Posted to Richard Siddaway's Blog by RichardSiddaway on Fri, Oct 12 2012
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  • Remember the Vista/XP problems?

    I do and only too well. If both were installed on the same machine, shadow copies and restore points would disappear daily. It is what forced me to go to Vista full time and dump XP. This time, the decision is not so clear cut because moving entirely to Windows 8 will not get me anything I don’t already...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Oct 10 2012
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  • Windows 7 and 8 do NOT like to co-exist..

    All hard drives checkout as ok, and Windows 7 runs flawlessly, boots flawlessly, and does everything else flawlessly UNTIL Windows 8 is introduced to the system. Even when I had Windows 8 in VirtualBox, it still played up a bit but only affected itself, not the host. One in three reboots from Windows...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, Oct 9 2012
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  • Systèmes RAID–Intel® : Gestion des volumes

    Bonsoir à tous, Vous avez configuré les disques durs de votre machine avec un système RAID – Intel®. Plus particulièrement, vous utilisez leur technologie Intel® Rapide Storage Technology. Lorsque vous désirez mettre à jour les données d’un disque Maître vers le disque de reprise “Recovery”, le menu...
    Posted to Ici on parle Windows®... by Patrice BONNEFOY on Mon, Oct 1 2012
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  • Windows 8 – Start8 makes it all better..

    Stardock’s Start8 menu for Windows 8 is getting better. You now have the ability to ‘pin to the Start menu’ just like Windows 7. All about the look and features here.. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/features.asp And guess what? It is in beta presently, but the full version only costs $4.99 which...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Sep 29 2012
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