woensdag 31 maart 2010

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

source: http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
Tool for making a bootable USB-stick with just an ISO

Installation

To install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool:
  1. Click to open the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool installation file.
  2. When you are prompted to either save the file to disk or run it, choose Run.
  3. Follow the steps in the setup dialogs. You'll have the option to specify where to install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
Note: You need to be an administrator on the computer you are installing the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool on. The tool requires the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher.
System Requirements 

  • Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

  • Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)

  • 50MB of free space on your hard drive

  • DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive

woensdag 24 maart 2010

Mount VHD without VHDmount, using diskpart

(Source:http://blogs.technet.com/daven/archive/2009/01/16/vhdmount-without-vhdmount.aspx)

To mount a VHD file onto your file system, you either ran some very complicated VB (or PowerShell) Script or you usedVHDMount.exe that came with Virtual Server.  If you’re running Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2), you can now use Diskpart.
From an elevated command prompt, run Diskpart.
Select the VHD in question: sel vdisk file="c:\users\daven\desktop\xp professional.vhd"
Then attach it to your system: attach vdisk

donderdag 4 maart 2010

Chrome: edit Google search engine

1) Open "Edit search engines"
2) Select "Google" and hit "edit"
3) Now select the 3rd row ("URL") and copy it and close the window
4) Hit "Add". Type whatever you like in "Name" and "keyword".
5) In "URL" paste the copied text and replace "{google:baseURL}" with "http://www.google.com/" the click OK
6) Select your new google engine and make it default
7) Remove old google entry

7) Done!>>