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Category Archives: Windows 7
Using Outlook 2010 with More than One Exchange Account Crashes Regularly
Posted by on February 24, 2011
I quite liked the idea of a new feature in Outlook 2010, the ability to use more than one Exchange account at a time. People have been asking for this for years and it looked promising, in the past there was a work-around using virtualization but it was very resource intensive for most people’s machines. [...]
Cannot Access Shared Folder vmware-host Shared Folders My Desktop
Posted by on February 8, 2011
I encountered this error when a Windows 7 VM running under Fusion logs on, VM tools is mapping a drive to your OS X home directory and results in the following Windows error message Cannot Access Shared Folder \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\My Desktop I hit this error after I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my [...]
Windows 7 Remote Desktop Client – Nice Touch
Posted by on May 19, 2010
You can download and install the new, updated RDC 7.0 client for free for any OS from Windows XP SP3 and later (it ships with Windows 7) known issues here and detailed feature comparison per OS here and downloads for various client OS’es are below Update for Windows Vista, x86-based versions Download the Update [...]
Installing Windows 7 from a USB Flash Drive and Multi-Boot from VHD
Posted by on April 14, 2010
This is a useful tool which I haven’t come across before – Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool – it will create a bootable USB flash drive which you can use to install Windows 7 Combine this with a boot from .VHD setup and you have a very flexible multi-boot solution, it also seems to [...]
Installing VMware Workstation on Windows 7
Posted by on October 27, 2009
You may recall I previously posted on problems installing VMware Workstation 6.5 on Windows 7, this problem seems to have been resolved with the upcoming VMware Workstation 7 which adds support for Windows 7 as a guest and as a host. You can download the Workstation 7 RC build here Release Build here and see the [...]
Windows 7 and the Intel 855 video driver problem
Posted by on October 21, 2009
Judging by the several hundreds of hits that this post on my blog gets every day since January I would say there is a *serious* demand from the general internet community to use laptops with the Intel 855 family video chipset with Windows 7, and it’s not even been released to the general public [...]
Problem Installing VMWare Workstation on Windows 7
Posted by on January 13, 2009
I have tried to install the most recent build of VMWare Workstation (6.5.1 build 126130) on my Windows 7 beta (build 7000) machine, and it fails with an error 1935 An Error occurred during the installation of assembly component {0BAE132A2- etc. etc. etc. HRESULT: 0x8007054F Ah well, it’s still beta – guess there [...]
Windows 7 and the Intel 855GM Video Driver "Solution"
Posted by on January 12, 2009
I’ve been playing about with Windows 7 in a VM for a while now in a VM, but now the beta is out I wanted to install it on a physical machine, I’m not ready yet to upgrade my main laptop to Windows 7 (although I have a cunning plan to p2v my Vista [...]
