Native VHD boot enables a physical machine to be booted directly from a virtual hard disk (VHD) with no requirement for virtualization software (such as Microsoft Virtual PC or Hyper-V). Native VHD boot is made possible with the addition of a new mini-port driver within the Windows 7 operating system...

Windows 7 has native support for VHD mounting (and booting). In my earlier blog post about VHD mounting under Vista you needed vhdmout.exe from Virtual Server. In Windows 7 you can use Disk Management and/or diskpart to mount VHD’s native! You can also mount a VHD file in scripts using diskpart...

Windows 7 is smart about windows. Dragging a window to the top of the computer screen maximizes it automatically. Dragging a window to the left or right side of the screen resizes it for side-by-side comparisons to other windows. And moving the mouse to the lower-right corner of the screen makes all...