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• Troubleshooting error code 78F when installing Office 2007 Service Pack 1

  After 7 failed attempts to get Office 2007 SP1 installed on my machine via Windows update I decided to investigate this a little bit further and you are going to laugh about the solution. Believe it or not the only thing that was required was to have Read More... Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:29 PM by albertoe | 1 Comments

• Replacing notepad in Vista

  One of the frist things that I do whenever I install a new version of Windows is to replace Notepad with Notepad2 as I find this to be a much more powerful editor. There are some articles on how to do it with Windows XP and Windows 2003 but I could not Read More... Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 5:08 AM by albertoe | 3 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista

• Adding notepad to the SendTo menu list in Vista

  If you are like me I often find that I want to look at a file using notepad which might be associated with some other application. For example a batch file, an .config , or an XML these are typically associated with something else, but I want to view Read More... Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 4:45 AM by albertoe | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista

• Using a Virtual PC over a VPN

  Since I am on the road quite often I need to VPN into the internal network while I am out and I have noticed that if I start the Virtual PC host software on my machine prior to establishing the VPN connection my guest PC can't connect to the internal Read More... Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:54 AM by albertoe | 0 Comments Filed under: Information Worker, Misc.

• Origami devices as MCE Extenders

  This is really cool since it looks like you will be able to operate an Origami device as a Extender for Windows Media Center, so you could watch your recorded TV on it, live tv, music etc. More details at CE Pro: From CS Pro's website The especially good Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:33 AM by albertoe | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Media Center Edition

• Use msn messenger to query encarta

  This is a very cool feature, you can add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contacts list, you can ask it questions, e.g. What is the size of Mexico? What is the population of Canada? When was Leonardo da Vinci born? I want to see the map of Italy. Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:55 PM by albertoe | 0 Comments Filed under: Misc.

• Setting up a Ghost network disk for Virtual PC / Virtual Server

  I use Symantec Ghost ( http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ ) to create images of physical machines usually over the network. You can create a boot floppy to run inside of Virtual PC / Virtual Server. Symantec provide a nice wizard to do this with - but Read More... Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:30 PM by albertoe | 1 Comments Filed under: Misc.

• Problems with intelppm.sys and processr.sys with Virtual PC

  When moving a Virtual PC from my tablet to my desktop pc sometimes I get a blue screen stating that an error in the intelppm.sys and/or the processr.sys driver has occurred (usually when attemting to shutdown the virtual machine for the first time). If Read More... Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:25 PM by albertoe | 0 Comments Filed under: Misc.

• Hotmail on your media Center is coming

  Hotmail Add-in for Media Center Screenshots | Sean Alexander has some screenshots posted of a new Hotmail plug-in for Media Center that’s due out very soon! Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:40 AM by ALBERTOES | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Media Center Edition

• Restoring PocketPC with ActiveSync

  I have been using a PocketPC phone edition for the last couple of months and after testing many different add-ons and software for the PocketPC it got to a point where my device was not very useful as it was taking a lot of time to boot and became very Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:32 AM by ALBERTOES | 1 Comments Filed under: Misc.

• Do you want to build your own MCE?

  If you were thinking on building your own MCE. I would highly recommend that you take a look at this link Read More... Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 6:33 PM by ALBERTOES | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Media Center Edition

• Run Media Center in Widescreen (16:9) Mode

  Charie Owen gives a great tip on how to test your MCE extensibility application for widescreen compatibility without a widescreen monitor? Click Start --> Run. Type 'C:\windows\eHome\ehshell.exe /widescreen'. Click the OK button. Using the mouse, click Read More... Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 11:48 AM by albertoe | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Media Center Edition

• Media Center on old PCs?

  I have a couple of outdated PC's that I do not use anymore and I was wondering, would it be possible to use them as a Media Center Extender, I believe that this might be a good idea for a product that would allow me to use my older hardware as an extender. Read More... Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:24 PM by albertoe | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Media Center Edition

• MCE Addiction

  I have been traveling for the last couple of weeks and one if the thinks that I have noticed is that when I am watching TV in the hotel I am always looking to do things that I can do with my MCE such as rewinding live TV or trying to skip through commercials Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:31 PM by albertoe | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Media Center Edition

• Differencing Drives and Windows Security

  I have been using Virtual PC for quite a while now and a very useful feature of this product is Differencing Drives. Well I was trying to create a small network for a lab that required me to have a Domain Controller and all of the machines that I was Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 27, 2005 5:12 PM by albertoe | 2 Comments Filed under: Misc.