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Monday, October 19, 2009 2:04 PM

Handy KB Article for Deleting Windows.old

If you've been dogfooding Windows 7 like I have, you have an orphaned windows.old directory on your hard drive and you need the space back from Windows.old to get the Windows 7 RTM. When I Bing-ed for delete windows.old , I found KB Article 930527: How
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:08 AM

Try Windows Installer 5.0 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RC

Early last week Microsoft announced the delivery of Windows 7 release candidate coupled with the delivery of the release candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2. Test the Windows 7 Release Candidate at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx
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Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:08 PM

Setup for the Altair

Today I came across it in a Wikipedia article on the Altair On final approach, Allen realized that they had forgotten to write a bootstrap program to read the tape into memory. Writing in 8080 machine language, Allen finished the program before the plane
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:38 PM

Try Windows Installer 4.5 functionality available in these Windows Release Candidates

TechNet just published the RC candidates for Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 have been released. All of these releases have the Windows Installer 4.5 features embedded in this Windows distribution. Windows 7 is also
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Friday, January 30, 2009 6:49 AM

Reregistering the Windows Installer service does not work on Vista and above

A common troubleshooting Windows Installer technique before vista was to reregister the Windows Installer service. The steps went something like this Unregister Windows Installer, and then reregister Windows Installer. To do this, follow these steps:
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:17 PM

Windows Installer 5 Documentation Now Online

MSDN has updated their web site with documentation for Window Installer 5 in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. A good place to start is the What's New In Windows Installer 5.0 page. Of the feedback I received for Windows Installer in Windows Vista,
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:41 PM

Windows Installer 5.0 Crash on Windows 7 Beta

The TechNet forum post Windows Installer Crash appears to have find a workaround for the issue by using start regedit navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling Original credit
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:31 PM

Windows Installer 4.5 in Vista SP2 and Windows 2008 SP1

Per this TechNet article , Windows Installer 4.5 will be in Vista SP2 and Windows 2008 SP1.
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Monday, January 19, 2009 7:49 PM

Top Microsoft Developer Partner Conferences for 2009: MIX, TechEd, and PDC (yes Virginia another PDC ;^)

Wow. Two PDCs in a row. MIX09 - March 18 - 20, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas: is all about the Web . Tech•Ed - May 11 - 15 in Los Angeles. Tech•Ed is all about shipped Microsoft Technologies . Most of the tracks are presented by Microsoft product
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Monday, January 19, 2009 1:31 PM

Adding an IFrame to a SharePoint Wiki Page

While integrating the Windows Installer XML 3.0 toolset, we needed to add references to the WiX manual on our SharePoint Wiki site. The straightforward path would have been to add an <iFrame src="<URL path to WiX manual page>" />. Unfortunately
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Friday, January 16, 2009 9:44 AM

Mark Russinovich discusses the new kernel constructs in Windows 7

In Channel 9 presentation Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 , Mark discusses the new kernel constructs in Windows 7 (wandering up into user mode only briefly).
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Monday, January 12, 2009 8:23 PM

Beta release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

You can now get the Windows 7 Beta SDK ISO via download center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a91dc12a-fc94-4027-b67e-46bab7c5226c&DisplayLang=en
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:14 AM

Early Content for Windows 7 ISV Partners

With the recent announcement fo the Windows 7 Beta, there are now tools for ISVs to evaluate the opportunity on Windows 7 including ISV Goal Resource Value Compatibility of my shipped apps Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook Learn how to verify compatibility
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:01 AM

Try the Windows 7 beta at http://microsoft.com/windows7 (available soon)

Friends, Please try the Windows 7 beta at http://microsoft.com/windows7 . I hear it's not available just yet will be available soon. My little piece of Windows is the Windows Installer 4.5 features + bug fixes that rolled forward into Windows Installer
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:16 AM

Windows FireStarter: (Windows 7 + Windows Server 2008 R2) Teaser Session

The current issue of MSDN Flash on the Web at < http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11116134&s1=8a9e7936-fb8f-c212-bc8f-dd82b9c02682 > offers (Windows 7 + Windows Server 2008 R2) Teaser Session
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