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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Disk Usage Display Improvement In Windows Vista

28-May-08

I’ve stumbled across a nice usability improvement in Windows Vista that had escaped me until today - the display of free disk space. Of course this feature has been in Windows Explorer since Windows 95, but the improvement in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is the reporting of disk space when a drive is [...]

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Update To Fix Flash Handling on Presentation Server

24-May-08

Yay, great news - Citrix has released an update to fix the handling of Adobe Flash versions for Presentation Server 4.0. This has currently been released as part of the latest hotfix rollup for Presentation Server 4.0.
For Presentation Server on Windows Server 2003 and above, this means that the SpeedFlash feature that accelerates the display [...]

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Citrix Enters The Profile Management Space

21-May-08

As you’re probably aware, because all the major blogs have covered it already, Citrix has purchased sepagoProfile from sepago with an agreement for sepago to continue development over the next 18 months. The product will become Citrix User Profile Manager.
I’m a fan of sepagoProfile because it’s very simple and Group Policy based, which is a [...]

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Troubleshooting Windows Vista Performance KBs

19-May-08

To get the best out of Windows requires the wipe and load approach when confronted with a slow performing OEM install. I’m working on a post to that effect and Ed Bott has some great articles on Windows Vista performance lately (not that I think I’m in Ed Bott’s league).
Windows’ greatest strength and weakness is [...]

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