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File operations in Windows: the good and the bad, the past and the future

By tim, on August 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft’s Windows chief Steven Sinofksy has posted details of what file operations look like in Windows 8. There are a few changes, including a consolidated view of all current file operations that lets you pause and resume any of them. You can also click for more details and get a pretty graph.

Microsoft has

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 install failures common?

By tim, on March 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

There are reports coming in of Windows 7 install failures causing problems for users. There will always be some failures, but normally there is an easy way to rollback; unfortunately SP1 is making machines unbootable in a number of cases:

I have about 10pc’s in my company. They all failed this morning after the service

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Silverlight native extensions allow deep Windows 7 integration, but forget cross-platform

By tim, on January 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released Native Extensions for Silverlight, a set of libraries which enable access to Windows 7 features including taskbar Jump Lists; access to attached devices including webcams, cameras and phones; the sensor API for accelerometer support; and even the ability to intercept Windows messages. The ability to intercept Windows messages allows lots of interesting

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Fixing slow access to SharePoint mapped drives in Windows 7

By tim, on January 19th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve heard recently from a couple of people who found that accessing SharePoint folders via mapped drives in Windows Explorer had suddenly become very slow – even taking several minutes to open a folder. This is in Windows 7, but the same might (or might not) apply to other versions of Windows.

SharePoint folders in

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25 years of Windows: triumph and tragedy

By tim, on November 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I wrote a (very) short history of Windows for the Register, focusing on the launch of Windows 1.0 25 years ago.

I used Oracle VirtualBox to run Windows 1.0 under emulation since it more or less works. I found an old floppy with DOS 3.3 since Windows 1.0 does not run on DOS 6.2,

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Delphi XE still not quite ready for Vista/Windows 7

By tim, on September 1st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve successfully installed Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (including Delphi). I’m running Windows 7 64-bit. On first quitting RAD Studio (which is still called bds.exe – it stands for Borland Development Studio) I got this message:

Fortunately I know exactly what this means. Read here for my earlier explanation. And if I go to

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Changing the motherboard under Windows 7

By tim, on July 11th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today I needed to swap motherboards between a machine running Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and another running 32-bit Windows 7. No need to go into the reason in detail; it’s to do with some testing I’m doing of Hyper-V backup and restore. The boards were similar, both Intel, though one had a Pentium D processor

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Virtual wi-fi adapter breaks wireless in Windows 7

By tim, on June 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today I was asked to look at a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop that would not connect to a wireless network. At least, it connected but there was no internet connectivity. I did the usual ipconfig /all and noticed that everything looked OK on the wireless adapter – IP address, default gateway, DNS servers. Nevertheless it

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Bill Buxton, Windows Phone 7 hits at Mix10, say attendees

By tim, on March 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I recall seeing conversations on Twitter about whether it is worth going to conferences, especially vendor-led ones such as Microsoft’s Mix10 which took place earlier this month. It’s expensive, it’s marketing, and many of the sessions are available for free online soon after they take place.

In that context it’s interesting to see some off-the-cuff

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The Windows Netbook experience: Toshiba NB300

By tim, on March 9th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just received a Toshiba NB300 Netbook, which looks like it will be useful for blogging and web access during a couple of conferences coming up shortly – up to 11 hours battery life, great. I am interested in the user experience when starting out with a new machine, so made a few notes.

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