For the last few days I’ve been trying to get some mp4 files, which Microsoft say are supported in the latest update for the Xbox 360, with little success. However, this morning, I’ve finally managed to get it to work – here’s what I did for those struggling with this too.
Reference for myself (and anyone else that’s interested) – here’s my unattend.xml file for installing Windows XP SP2 completely unattended. Using this in conjunction with a sysprep.inf file, you can achieve a completely unattended XP install using Windows Deployment Services.
Microsoft’s forthcoming server platform, Windows Server 2008, is out pretty soon now. So, as I’m going to be deploying this pretty soon after its release, I thought it a good idea to start playing with one of the more interesting parts of Windows Server 2008, the Core installation.
In my last post I went about installing a Windows Deployment Services server and creating a couple of simplistic boot images, ready to perform automated deployment of Windows clients. Now I’m ready to start doing something useful with my new server – let’s get started!
If, like me, you’re running Vista full time you may be struggling to install one of the most used applications, Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. It’s pretty easy to fix – if you are struggling, here’s how I did it.
Well, despite my anti-Vista stance a month or so ago when running the MSDN build I went out and bought the retail version of Vista Home Premium and am running it full-time on my laptop.
A week or two ago I wrote a short rant complaining about the quality of AVG’s free anti-virus software. Although not strictly the same thing, spyware is quite a big problem on a lot of home PCs. Read more…
With Microsoft’s new flagship desktop operating system, Windows Vista, released in January I thought I’d have a go at installing it to see how it stacks up. Read more…
A very quick post for this evening. The last couple of days I’ve been running AVG’s free anti-virus application to see if you can really get top quality software for your PC for nothing. Well, over the last few days I’ve had memory leaks and crashes all over the place and using my PC has slowed to a crawl. Read more…
