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re: Migration or Porting?

Bob — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:07:48 GMT

In my current view, I port code to work on another CPU, OS, .... I migrate an application by porting its software and then bringing over all of its data, infrastructure, tools, connections, etc as needed in its new environment.

re: 32-bit optional in Windows Server 2008 R2

troy — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:01:05 GMT

that command is only available on server 2008 r2. sounds like your running it not as admin or on a non server 2008 r2 x64

re: Python Tools for Visual Studio - Beta

Andrew — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:16:35 GMT

This looks as though it is going in the right direction for me, but all I really want to be able to do is to create and use matrix objects from Visual Basic (preferably the free version). Am I going to have to pay for Visual Studio and add IronPython before I can use the numpy/scipy tools in my visual basic routines?

re: 32-bit optional in Windows Server 2008 R2

Sean — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:58:41 GMT

Yep, I get that issue. Usual MS-type solution:

"Do this to fix your problem"

"I tried and it doesn't work"

re: Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Volker Will MSFT — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:48:54 GMT

I recently installed Windows 7 on an iMac. Same experience as with the MBA. I never created the DVD or copied files to a USB drive. It actually always failed ...

After the Windows installation and booted into Windows, insert the Mac OS installation disk and run Setup. That does the trick.

AFAIK you can also download current and older versions of Boot Camp installs from Apple's support website: support.apple.com/downloads

re: Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Alexis — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:50:37 GMT

Hey Shayne, any luck with that? I have the same problem. I installed Win 7 on my MBA 2.1 (2009) but cannot find a copy of Boot Camp that work on it! Thus, I'm missing most of the drivers...

re: Hardware Virtualization Check Utility

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re: Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Shayne — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:46:00 GMT

How to make BootCamp 3 work on a MacBook Air with Win 7 64 Bit?

Thanks for these useful comments. I have an original MacBook Air purchased mid 2008 with 64GB SSD and the external superdrive. This week I ran bookcamp from the Snow Leopard DVD and managed to create a 45GB partition leaving 15GB for OS X and then proceed to install Windows 7 (I used 64Bit upgrade then entered the license key later). During bootcamp procedure in OS X, Bootcamp would not "save the drivers to an external drive", so after much reading from ay others who experienced this problem, I continued with the install anyway, choosing "Bootcamp already installed" or another such similar message, as recommended.

I now have Win 7 64 Bit home premium running and used the drivers on the Snow Leopard CD to get most of the hardware devices working including the camera audio and screen. Office 2010 Professional with Outook and other apps works fine. It runs nice and fast and I am VPN'ing into a corporate network using a USB smartcard so connectivity is good, and I can use my 30" apple cinema display too! I'm using Windows Live Mesah to sync files to the skydrive and after all this have about 15GB pf space left.

P.S. - I started out by using VMWare Fusion 3.1 because I liked the idea of using Time Machine to back everything up. Warning: Soon after using VMWare, my hard drive VMWare volume filled to the max and I also had relatively poor performance because its an "emulation" and has each of the 2 CPU cores are set up for 1 to each serve Windows and OS X, so I realized that it was time to dump it and go with the dual boot "Boot Camp"

Here's the problem: When I try and run Bootcamp from the DVD inside windows from the leopard DVD I receive the message "Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model". Because of this, I do not have the Bootcamp icon in the system tray to adjust keyboard mouse etc.

As an intermin measure I am launching a mouse app each time I boot to allow me to use the ctrl key to right click the mouse.

I also tried upgrading Bootcamp to V 3.1 and 3.1 but it says to instal version 3 first.

Does anybody know how I can overcome this problem without having to re-do the entire install? I rather like the x64 version because its fast and I can use the corporate MS Apps for work that are provided to me.

2nd Mac

Being a relative newbie to returning to windows after nearly 10 years I see a lot has changed. I'm about to also install windows on my "other" mac which is a 2007 MacBook Pro Ultimate with 17" screen, I have partitioned the new 500GB drive (installed to replace the original 120GB drive) and divided the space equally between Windows and OS X. Then I managed to install Windows XP Profesisonal with SP2 after an NTFS format and also managed to restore all my original mac profiles and files over the network from Time machine.

Here's the catch: I just relaized that Microsoft do not support upgrading from XP Pro SP2 straight to Win 7 - you have to have a copy of Vista, so I am goig to buy a copy of Visa Hoe Premium and then (hopefully) install the 64 Bt version and then u/g to Win 7. Difficult (and frustrating) I know, but have to stick with the licensing rules.

Any insights or suggestions would be appreciated.

My first pririty is how to get (any version) of BootCamp working on the MBA so that I can upgrade it and continue to enjoy the system.

re: Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Shayne — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:45:57 GMT

How to make BootCamp 3 work on a MacBook Air with Win 7 64 Bit?

As an intermin measure I am launching a mouse app each time I boot to allow me to use the ctrl key to right click the mouse.

I also tried upgrading Bootcamp to V 3.1 and 3.1 but it says to instal version 3 first.

2nd Mac

Any insights or suggestions would be appreciated.

My first pririty is how to get (any version) of BootCamp working on the MBA so that I can upgrade it and continue to enjoy the system.

re: Python Tools for Visual Studio - Beta

Johnny — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:53:05 GMT

Awesome.