November 2007 - Posts
The November 2007 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the Mobile & Embedded Communications Extranet (ECE) for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded Service Pack 2, Feature Pack 2007, and Update Rollup 1.0. This is a cumulative supplement
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In my screen cast debut I will walk you through how to add registry keys to RegFilter, both in Target Designer and also on a deployed runtime. I will also discuss some of the "Do's and Don'ts" associated with using Registry Filter. In this example I am
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For those customers based in the USA the Embedded team wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving and we hope you have a chance to relax over the weekend. A note to customers elsewhere - most of the Embedded team will be on vacation from this evening until Monday,
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Prefetch is a part of Memory Management that helps speed up the Windows boot process by shortening the time programs take to start up (basically a type of caching). The prefetcher function can be set in the following registry key: Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
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I found this arcade game, the world's largest , at scifi.com this morning. You need to climb up on stepladders for crying out loud! Anyway, it got me thinking a little about gaming machines in general as an embedded device and pondering again "what does
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Here's a couple of questions and answers from the newsgroup I thought some folks might find helpful: Question : After several years of working with XPE, I'm finally getting our IT department to put the database on a shared server instead of it being on
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For next month’s XPe MSDN chat we are inviting our developers, partners and customers in India to send us their questions. Because of the challenges in coordinating across the time zones we are holding this session earlier than normal ( 7.30am PST, which
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I wanted to highlight the new links we added to our blog today- these are new under the "Other Links" section on the left pane: Get the InfoBlast Newsletter Find a Windows Embedded Partner Become a Windows Embedded Partner Be sure to check them out when
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I used to be an instructor some time back and still get a kick out helping to teach people and would like to explain one of the interesting new odds of C#. In C#, you do not have pointer any more. How do you deal with pointer to functions? This article
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Last July Intel joined the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative and developed the Classmate PC . Basically it's a very rugged, low cost laptop (Core2 Duo) that will run either Windows or Linux. Reuters is reporting that Intel & Microsoft just sold
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