July 2007 - Posts
Introduction A non-administrator user logs in to a system built with Windows XP Embedded runtime will not be able to successfully change the TCP/IP settings (such as IP address, subnet mask, etc.) even if that particular user belongs to the ‘Network Configuration
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Windows Media Player 11 is available in a componentized form in XPe Update Rollup 1.0. However, it is also possible to install this feature on a runtime post-FBA, as detailed in this blog article . One thing to be aware of is that there is a "gotcha"
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Many universities have student kiosks spread around the campus to allow students to accomplish important tasks like deposit money in an account for purchasing meals and making hotel reservations (see image) for Mom’s visit. Problem is that kids these
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I'm trying something new to deliver tips to blog readers in an effort to make the information easier to comprehend and visualize. So today I've included my very first screen cast created with Camtasia Studio to demonstrate how to add extra file and registry
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From Ali Raza Shaikh's blog I leaned that in just a few days the 3rd occurrence of PAKCON will be taking place in Karachi, Pakistan. The focus of the talks and training for 2 days will be on security. Everything from 'Plugging Data Leaks' to 'Enterprise
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Are you a good enough developer to work on the Test team and interested in working for the Embedded Windows Team? If you think so, let's talk. E-mail me at ewjobs @microsoft.com . What's this about? I'm hiring Software Developers for the Test team (aka
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Yesterday I manned the Windows Embedded Academic Program booth at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit , held at the conference center on the Microsoft Redmond campus. I have to say it was the most well-attended booth for Embedded that I have ever manned,
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Do you want to work on the team that enables Windows to run on new devices? Do you have strong development skills coupled with passion for technology? Do you have passion for developers and would like to help make Windows better for devices? If yes, the
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Has the following ever happened to you? You disable a device using Device Manager and reboot the machine. However, after reboot the device appears to be enabled again. Well, the culprit causing this may very well be fonts! In all versions of XPe there
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The July 2007 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Supplement Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2 and Feature Pack 2007. Includes Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
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We periodically get requests from customers for adding additional configurable options to components i n the database so that more settings can be tweaked or set offline (i.e. in Target Designer). This would assist them in creating an image faster as
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If you've moved to the Windows Vista operating system and are thinking about migrating your XP Embedded suite of tools as well see the article "XP Embedded on Vista Notes" from one of our MVPs, Sean Liming , from last week. He has compiled a handy reference
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In a previous post we looked at how you can directly query the SQL DB's component tables for the owning component of a file resource. However, If you wanted to query for the component owner of a registry key , change the query to this: SELECT ExtendedProperties
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On June 28th, I (and 265 other interns) had the privilege of going to one of the four annual intern BBQs hosted by Bill Gates at his house in Medina, WA (on the Lake Washington shore). If you haven’t seen Bill’s house, Live Maps has a good view of it
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A request came in to me the other day from Dave Baker on behalf of a customer and I wanted to share the answer with everyone. The ask is to directly query the SQL DB for the owning component of a file resource instead of using Target Designer's Filter
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Overview Security Catalogs are an important feature of Windows’ Security system. These catalogs help reduce disk footprint used by the code signing process. Security catalogs are installed differently on Windows XP Embedded systems. This article explains
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