Starting to roll out the official producting Win7's and one of the interesting things is not all icons lend themselves to being "pinned". On our CCH tax icons I have to build "pinable" shortcuts. In particular I have to put the word explorer in front of the shortcut url and then I get the ability to pin it to the task bar. How to Pin Special Windows Items to the Taskbar | Windows 7 Tutorials: http://www.7tutorials.com/how-pin-special-windows-shortcuts-taskbar

First off I'd like to say that Karl Palachuk really screwed up this time. Calling his company "Great Little Book" when his latest is great, but it sure isn't little, is not truth in advertising. At a whopping 590 pages, that is not a little book by any means. http://greatlittlebook.com/ Great yes, little, no way. I'm in the pre-planning mode for the migration... or rather I should say the "Ghost of Karl Paluchuk" is hanging around me in my server room tonight telling

This weekend I'm just doing a play install and seeing what sort of RAID array I can build. RAID levels: Learn about RAID 50: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid5_gci1066983,00.html RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID I can do a "0", a 1+0, a 5 or a 50. RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across multiple disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will

Getting ready for Halloween!

Thank you for making the packaging of the Windows 7 boxes easier to get into. I no longer have to take a knife, and make the sounds of " Psycho " and hack into the Windows Vista packaging. Invariably then I would break the hinge causing the contents of the box to spill out on the floor. Windows 7 boxes are an easy open. But. Here's the but... and where you need to do better. The keycode inside the box has to be the smallest font I've ever seen you use on a Keycode. it's worse

Another reason to do clean install versus inplace from Vista. It ain't gonna fit. You need at least 20 gigs free and on this year old Vista system even after using the Compcln.exe tool it didn't thin down the drive enough for comfort. And that WinSxS folder is still huge. "After the cleansing process, users will notice the free hard disk space has increased substantially. " Uh...not in my personal experience....

When I get new hardware, the first thing I do is open it up... okay for a large server.. when did big hunking servers start shipping with laptop harddrives? Another entire bay unused for future expansion Lots of room for expansion! And the box "just" fit in the back of the mini cooper... a few more laptop harddrives and I may have needed to get a Uhaul to get the server back to the office!

HP SmartStart Software - Download drivers and software - HP Business Support Center: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=344318&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=345557&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4024 Throw away the CD/DVDs that come with it and start downloading the latest stuff. HP Smartstart 8.25 was shipped with the server and already 8.3 is out and is highly recommended as the one to use for the install.

And already in the partner group is the question "how do I get my classic menu back"... ... uh.. you don't... Start menu: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinclient7rc/thread/c47a3087-ef5c-4821-a551-974483bccf51 Hello Karel, Thank you for posting here. I understand that you want the XP classic start menu in Windows 7. Yes, as Johnny said, Classic Start Menu has been removed in Windows 7 because shell has been fully new designed in Windows 7. However, we can use a third

As Tim Barrett said, putting Windows 7 on an older machine is putting "Lipstick on a Pig". Windows 7: Crystal Meth for Geeks Q*A :: Third Tier: http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/10/windows-7-crystal-meth-for-geeks-qa/ Amy will be posting up the slide deck and the recording but here's the Q&A log already. Low cost Win7 upgrades for non profits -- check out www.techsoup.org Question: Can I upgrade directly to W7 from XP64? One question that I see that I want to make real clear on the