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Skipping product or license key during installation of Windows 8 and Server 2012

Hal Sclater 5th March 2014 Server 5 Comments

Windows 8 and Server 2012 have an annoying default installation process which forces you to enter a product key during installation. Often you may want…

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Creating bootable Windows Vista, 7, 8, 2012 USB or SD memory card

Hal Sclater 5th March 2014 Server 0 Comments

There are several ways to create a bootable USB media if you have an ISO. You can also do this using an SD card if…

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ZoomIt presentation utility

Hal Sclater 4th February 2014 Server 0 Comments

I just have to mention the awesome ZoomIt presentation tool created by the legendary Mark Russinovich. This is great for doing presentations and technical demonstrations, it…

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Using Outlook.com to send and receive other email accounts or domains

Hal Sclater 22nd January 2014 Web 0 Comments

One way of using outlook.com in order to receive from other domains, you can setup the domain as a custom domain using domains.live.com as per…

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Running the original Homeworld on Windows 7 or Windows 8 or Windows 10 widescreen

Hal Sclater 8th January 2014 Gaming 4 Comments

Today I was feeling nostalgic and decided to replay the classic original Homeworld game, which was released in 1999. I remember the graphics, story and…

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Dual booting Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 from VHD

Hal Sclater 5th January 2014 Server 4 Comments

My main laptop doubles as a portable lab, with Windows 8.1 as my main work OS, dual booting with Windows Server 2012 R2 for lab…

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Installing the Desktop Experience feature on Windows Server 2012 R2

Hal Sclater 31st December 2013 Server 0 Comments

If using Windows Server 2012 R2 as a remote desktop session host, for hosting server based user desktops, you can add the Desktop Experience feature…

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Using the ‘Connect to a remote PC’ page in RDWeb Remote Desktop Web on Windows Server 2012

Hal Sclater 31st December 2013 Remote Desktop 2 Comments

The Remote Desktop web site, which is a component of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 and 2008, has a page called ‘Connect to…

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Quickly editing the “New” context menu in Windows…

Hal Sclater 30th October 2013 Windows 8 0 Comments

When you right click in a folder and want to create a new item, the New context menu that appears can become quite cluttered with…

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Clean install Windows 8.1 or 8 using the included OEM license in the BIOS

Hal Sclater 6th September 2013 Windows Phone 9 Comments

Often Windows 8 machines come preinstalled with Windows 8 and no COA product key on the machine, just a small Windows 8 sticker. These machines…

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