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September 2009 - Posts

Controlling the new Zune player from the Windows 7 Taskbar Preview

The latest Zune player has been reviewed in great depth elsewhere so I’m not going to go into it in huge depth here, other than to say it’s not just a pleasure to use but is very, very cool and aesthetically pleasing too. But I did want to point out a Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:50 AM by ianm | 2 Comments
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Great List of Windows 7 ISV Compatibility Resources

Over at the UK ISV blog they have just posted a really useful list of resources relating to Windows 7 application compatibility. If you’re an ISV it’s well worth a look: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukisvdev/archive/2009/09/23/windows-7-application-compatibility-resources.asp Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:23 PM by ianm | 0 Comments

Changing Windows 7's XP Mode memory size

I've been using XP mode on Windows 7 for a while and it has been proving useful to have an old XP copy available for things like compatibility testing. One issue I had is that it comes configured with only 256MB of RAM available to the virtual machine Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:26 AM by ianm | 5 Comments
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.NET Awards

This year, once again, I have the honour of being a judge in .NET Magazine’s awards. I’m sure you know .NET magazine – nothing to do with Microsoft .NET, the name is just a coincidence – as a world-class web developer magazine. Voting is open now so take Read More...
Posted Friday, September 04, 2009 12:26 PM by ianm | 0 Comments
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Which Windows 7 Build Am I On?

Someone asked me how they could tell which build of Windows 7 there were on, as they “inherited” a machine from a colleague and weren’t sure if they were still on beta, RC or RTM. You can find out via the registry, so click the orb in the bottom left Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:28 PM by ianm | 2 Comments
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