About enabling the Windows Explorer Preview Panel to show the content of various text file format (such as .cs, .inf, .xaml, and so on…)

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been available for a while now. This post has several links and information on new updates.

How to uninstall Internet Explorer 9 Beta from Window Server 2008,Window Server 2008 R2,Vista, Window 7

File IO. Hard Links vs. Soft Links

One of new File IO features of Windows Vista, Transactional Files

Advanced Control of UAC in Windows Vista (and future versions)

Windows Error Reporting - how to make Windows Vista store mini dumps locally so that they can be collected by a developer for postmortem debugging?

This Gadget for Windows Vista or Windows 7 gives your control over Windows Services like IIS/W3SVC or MSSQLServer. You can see if the Services are running, stop them or restart them.

Put your message boxes on steroids. Take advantage of the new-look dialogs in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in your applications and smarten up your UI.

Caveat: I’ve been sitting on the information contained in this post for quite a while now, but it has finally perturbed me enough to put it out there for all of you (and myself, for that matter). If you would be so kind as to help spread the word, that would be great as the lie has spread like wildf...

If you have played with the new VHD feature in windows 7 or windows 2008 then you know just how cool of a feature this is. However the problem is that when you reboot your machine you find that when it comes back up all your VHD files are no longer attached? Here is what I did to get around the issu...

DirectX® 11, the next generation of graphics technology, arrives with Windows 7. This is great news for players because the game developers will utilize new features to create rich worlds, realistic characters, and more fluid gameplay.

An in-place upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 is not a path supported by Microsoft, but Laplink has a utility that allows you do this. My overall experience was that the tool is easy to use and works very well. There were a couple of hiccups I found, which are detailed in the post.

Hi there, Yesterday I wrote about the Windows Upgrade Advisor. Today I'll be blogging about the Windows Easy transfer. This is the second step in the process of moving on from Windows XP to Windows 7. Here are the screenshots of my Windows Easy Transfer: