Recent content by scotlandrocks

Until it breaks.... From experience, I'd never recommend a Mac Mini is used for anything mission critical. Disk in a Mac Mini as standard are only 5400rpm is just one example of why not. Need a second nic or add in card for some reason, just install one. Oh wait, that won't work.. Great little...

I'd be considering O365 hosted email as well, integrates nicely without Outlook for Mac or built in mail client and will work great through the web and with mobile devices. Depending on the number of users in the office / client I'd possibly be advising he cancel the order for the Mac Mini...

Thanks guys, so vCloud would be the ideal environment and is essentially an off the shelf solution for self service provisioning? vCloud looks pretty steep on pricing for managed VMs. For lower cost, as I say we already have vCenter licence (and so orchestrator), and as this is for our test...

I'm looking to setup a self service portal for VM provisioning. I've read that this might be possible with VMware Orchestrator and since we already have a vcenter licence this might be ideal. I'm also considering a more custom setup with a PHP form translating to a script to run against vcenter...

Is it even possible to get an application to run at kernel level in Windows? Thought the kernel was supposed to be pretty much inaccessable in Vista and XP.

Vista 32bit and 64bit. Ultimate, Business and HP. Reinstalled the computers several times. I'll see if I can flash one of the drives maybe that will fix it.

Been having this irritating problem on several computers, home and work. Basically Vista remembers the last disk that was in the room drive. Takes a reboot for my computer to show the drive as being empty. Also been having a lot of problems with Vista showing burnt cd's and dvd's as being...

I've been playing around with ghosting machines and want to know if I'm likely to encounter any SID problems. At the moment what I've been doing is building the machine on the domain just the same as I would if I wasn't going to ghost it. Then to ghost it I unplug the network cable, change it...

I'll just assume your not breaking any copyrights with this one. What codec you need will depend on what you used to encode it. Try the xvid codec to start with theres a good chance it might be what you used. Install VLC player to play the file.

Windows desktop search is an Optional update.

From what I've read all so called home user edition of windows XP home, pro, all versions of Vista and 2000. Fall under the requirement that you need one licence per running instance. For servers you get 4 virtual licenses included in your physical machine licence. So if you have a server...

You could try writing a batchfile that will check if the version installed is greater than the version on the network drive. Then stick it in the startup folder for all users.

OK, Vista 64 is set to use Internet Explorer 7 32-bit as default and Media Player 32-bit as default. I'm looking for an easy way to set everything to run native 64-bit. Anyone know all which apps are set to default to 32-bit and an easy way to change them over. Yes I know there will be...

I think CF is probably faster but in the real world you won't notice any real difference. More RAM is always good if your gonna be spending money but readyboost is different to superfetch. From what I understand superfetch will preload apps into RAM for use, whereas readyboost will load some of...

I bought Vista because I work in IT and I figured I'm going to have to check out this new OS that everyone’s going to be using, I put Vista on my media centre machine because I got a free copy of it from the Dell upgrade scheme and thought why not. Advantages that I see: Navigation...