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February 2007 - Posts

• Windows Home Server Beta 2 - Lives!

  Well I installed Windows Home Server Beta 2 on an older machine at home and things went pretty smoothly. Some things I did notice... There were a LOT of reboots - Beta software <shrug /> The only hardware not accounted for was the AC'97 onboard Read More... Posted Wednesday, 21 February 2007 7:34 PM by noonie | 0 Comments

• Windows Home Server - Beta 2 is real

  Hooray! I got my invite to beta test Windows Home Server Beta 2 today and have just downloaded and burned the 3 disks that make up the package. I've already reported a documentation error to the Microsoft Connect Feedback site and now I've got to save Read More... Posted Saturday, 17 February 2007 9:21 PM by noonie | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Home Server

• The strange case of the invisible Vista error message

  I had Internet Explorer crash twice on Vista today. The first time I had several open windows die and they could not be closed. I had to reboot to get everything back to normal. I went in to advanced options and changed IE to open each new window in a Read More... Posted Saturday, 17 February 2007 8:56 PM by noonie | 2 Comments Filed under: Vista Internet Explorer

• Windows Vista on a wireless home network

  I had heaps of trouble getting my Vista laptop to play nice on the home wireless network. After a while I thought I had it sussed. Printer sharing was the biggest problem but changing the network card in the XP machine that had the printers attached seemed Read More... Posted Saturday, 17 February 2007 8:17 PM by noonie | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista Networking Printer Sharing