Archive for March, 2009

Finding drivers for unrecognized hardware in a Windows system

Posted: 24th March 2009 by Mats Hellman in Windows
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Sometimes when you finish installing your Windows operating system you are missing drivers. The easy ones like chipset,network and graphics are easy to find, but what about the rest? Below is a screenshot of the details on the Intel Gigabit network card. Nothing special there, it’s installed and it’s working fine. If Windows wouldn’t be [...]

Setting up a Windows Deployment Services environment

Posted: 23rd March 2009 by Mats Hellman in Windows, Windows Deployment, XP Professional
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Windows deployment services was released to replace the old Windows RIP. Windows Deployment Services (WDS) makes it easier for us to deploy Windows Vista or even Windows XP using images. In this article I will go trough some of the steps I had to do to get everything up and working. For someone using Microsoft [...]

Lenovo X200s rant

Posted: 16th March 2009 by Mats Hellman in Vista, Windows
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I got my Lenovo X200s in January, it’s a small and great laptop and easy to carry in server rooms etc. But since I got it I’ve never got the Ericsson F3507g HSDPA module working properly. I can’t even get it to initialize and it’s driving me mad. So today after a power outage here [...]

A great video on Windows Vista performance

Posted: 10th March 2009 by Mats Hellman in Vista, Windows
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I stumbled on a video at Microsoft.com today hosted by Mark Russinovich. If you are running or thinking of deploying Vista have a look at this panel discussion. It’s a little over 1 hour but it’s worth every second. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cc952917.aspx?ITPID=fr2189s I actually got a few aha’s and a few doh’s from watching that video.