From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Microsoft Virtualisation User Group UK

in Community

This Thursday I’ll be presenting at the Microsoft Virtualisation User Group here in London. If you are in town and would like to come along (and we’d love to see you there), you can register at the MVUG web site and here are details of the event: Location: Microsoft London (Cardinal Place) http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/about/downloads/victoria_map.pdf Date & [...]

Tagged as: App-V

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I am a Twit

in General

Yes it’s true, and I’ll freely admit it. In addition to that, Ravi has convinced me to give Twitter a go. So I have and you can follow me (because I know you want to) at http://twitter.com/stealthpuppy. I promise to keep it on topic – mostly.

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“Fixing” Windows Briefcase

in Windows

For the 10 people who use Windows Briefcase, this one is not for you. If you’re like me and can’t stand the rough edges in Windows that have yet to be cleaned up, the Windows Briefcase icon is a bit of an eye sore because it still uses a Windows XP style icon:   In [...]

Tagged as: Usability

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Eliminate the Windows Start Navigation sound

in Windows

What’s the most annoying sound in Windows? For me it’s got to be the Start Navigation sound – that click that Windows plays whenever you navigate your way around Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer. Usually you can prevent Windows from playing this sound by setting the Start Navigation event to None; however in Windows 7 [...]

Tagged as: Usability

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Hiding the vmware_user account in Windows 7

in Windows

Installing VMware Server or Workstation on Windows 7 will leave the __vmware_user__ account showing on the logon screen, which does not happen in earlier versions of Windows. If you want to hide this account, it’s a simple registry value addition: Open Registry Editor and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon If it does not already exist, create [...]

Tagged as: VMware

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No App-V on Windows 7 (for now)

in Virtualisation

I was testing this myself yesterday without luck, but it looks like App-V does not currently run on Windows 7. App-V 4.5 is not currently supported or functional on Win7.  Info on Win7 support will be published soon. App-V 4.5 will install successfully on Windows 7 x86 and you can load an application into the [...]

Tagged as: App-V

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