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While toying around in Windows 7 I started the calculator and to my surprise the interface that we all know has changed. it looks pretty cool. It has now four modes: from left to right: Standard, Scientific, Statistic, Programmer.

When creating the screenshots in the previous post i used the new version of MSPaint. I remember now that I read about the fact that in Windows 7 the ribbon would turn up more. At least it did in MSPaint.exe:

When playing around in Windows 7 I noticed the following: When i hovered over it it showed: the green in the folder button, is nothing more and nothing less than the progress bar of the copy process running. this means that you do not have to pull forward the progress window to show how for it is. I know it is eye-candy, but I love sweets.

I was talking to a colleague trainer of mine today and we were talking about course images and how they might become “out of sync” with the domain controller. ( basically what happens is: like a user, a computer has a password as well, and if that expires, the machine “drops out of the domain”) normally a domain disjoin and a domain join will do ...

Last week at TechEd Barcelona, one of the coolest things we saw was the session from Mark Russinovich on the new stuff in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, where he showed that with the new OS the boot mechanism allows for booting from vhd file. at that point I though: This is what I am going to try next week. and I did. I have it running now ...

Today we were invited to gather for the Proctor instructions, the venue is a known place to me, but the weather is a little bit different than expected, High winds and rain. so the proctors got up early, got in at nign o clock and got instructions. I already spoke to a lot of familiar people, it is always nice to see people you know again. the ...

most of the people that installed XP saw or have used the unattend file creation tool. A little gem for sysadmins who want clean installs, but who do not want to do the click here type there scenario. For Vista there is no such thing on the DVD. reading and surfing on the web brought me to the this site. It looks like the online brother for ...

Steve Ballmer announced at the Gartner conference last week that there will be modifications in Vista to add Hyper-V to the system. Hyper-V willa lso integrate further into Server 2008. Microsoft will not wait for Windows 7 to integrate the Hypervisor technology in the client operating system. I am very curious in what timeframe this is to be ...

The news is out, and for what it’s worth: the official name for the next Windows version will be Windows 7

Today I am running a class on HMC 4.5 This class is running on Hyper-V. we ran into the following and I cannot say I am pleased with this: when you create the first machine on a Hyper-V box through the Hyper-V manager, the MAC address will be always the same, so if you create an environment that is running on Two separate pieces of hardware, You ...