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When asked to create a multilingual image for your company or organization, you may be tempted to start with your existing image and add Language Packs. This method can cause you problems down the road. As a best practice, you should start with the Vista
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Vista Package Manager is command line tool to install, remove or updates Windows packages to an offline Windows image. Used incorrectly you can easily corrupt your Windows installation image. Here are some tips to avoid this problem. The first and most
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You have your nifty new hand-held ultra mobile PC running Windows Vista, but you wish your font size was a little larger so you could read the text. You hunt around and find that you can modify just the font size (from the classic view of Control Panel
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So you have a system with a processor with performance state control running Windows Vista/SP1/Server 08. On such systems, in the Control Panel "Power Options", in "Change advanced power settings" under your selected Power Plan (for example: "Balanced"),
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So you pick up your new machine and start it up. During the initial screens you may be asked to select the language of your choice and then you are warned that the selection is not reversible. This usually occurs on computers that were built to be shipped
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If you happen to be debugging and hit the PrtScn / SysRq key on the debugee you may have noticed that this caused the debugger to break in. In certain situations this may not be the desired, thankfully it can be changed. This behavior and the modification
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As is probably well known, Microsoft spends a tremendous amount of time and resources on marketing and education both internally and externally. At times it seems as if only word of mouth and a few more people saying the same thing will drive the message
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There are a number of boot options that can be used in Vista and Windows Server 2008 that can be a pain to modify (or not possible if you are in a bugcheck loop), that can be done on the fly at boot time. These options are invaluable for diagnosing some
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Windows Vista has a new tool for investigating and configuring Power Management features. For this discussion, I'll focus on PowerCFG -LastWake feature that is new for Windows Vista. This tool can help diagnose individual, corporation, and Original Equipment
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From a consumer point of view seeing the message, "Internet Explorer has stopped responding" can be frustrating. Fortunately with Windows Vista information is collected about the hang which can be sent to Microsoft for further analysis, however you may
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Hello All, Vista SP1 is here and if you are wondering how Vista SP1 can resolve potential issue on Vista clients connecting to a Distributed File System (DFS) root then allow me to enlighten you by providing the following information. In a nutshell, when
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If the certificate has been revoked you will see the following at the bottom of the output: The smart card logon process includes the following steps: After the user inserts a smart card, the Windows logon service (WINLOGON) dispatches this event to the
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Yes you heard correctly - The long anticipated release of Windows Vista SP1 is here. Currently you can download it from the Microsoft Download Center and it will be pushed via Windows Update in April. Things to know before you download Windows Vista SP1...
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In XP the driver rankings were determined in the following way as discussed in the "Windows Vista Resource Kit": In-box drivers are given first preference. Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) signed drivers next. Unsigned drivers are given lowest preference.
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