Aero and SideBar enabled with NOD32 v3 AntiVirus installed.
WindowsKey + Tab to switch between windows.
It just works great! 
Aero and SideBar enabled with NOD32 v3 AntiVirus installed.
WindowsKey + Tab to switch between windows.
It just works great!
DenisM: it’s a known issue: hyper-v and nvidia driver do not go well together. either turn off hyper-v, or use standard windows drivers for your nvidia.
perhaps there is a better solution to this problem, given the fact that this issue is out there for quite some time now, but i’m too lazy to look it up.
I need to develop windows form based, asp.net web form based and sharepoint (all SQL server databased apps), while utilizing VSTO and which ever tools provide the programmatic manipulation of the office object model (formerly “Office Automation”) as I build BI apps.
Will “Server 2008 as a Workstation” allow me to do whatever is needed to build a single client and server development machine (preferably laptop) so that I can:
1. build a virtual machine for me as the user of visual studio 2008 & 2005, sharepoint designer, silverlight, and other dev tools, etc, and
2. build whatever is needed (virtual machines needed?) to host SQL Server 2005 & 2008, IIS 7.0, Sharepoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Office Server 2007, and whatever else I’ve forgotten.
I’m hoping that a 17″ laptop with 2.5mz clockspeed, 6-8 meg memory, and 2 300-500meg 7500rmp sata drives will do. I have yet to understand what processor and memory speed to settle with. Any suggestions on this.
thanks in advance
To ‘chdd’; Windows Server 2008 is not based on Windows Vista, it is based on Windows 7. It is why performance and stability differs. After Win 7 released, I will not hold Server 2008 on my PC, even the beta version was awesome. By the way thanks for the guide!! xD
Hi All,
been using Server 03 as a “daily driver” for a long time. Switched to ’08 recently and found a handy trick if you’re having problems installing an application due to detected OS version.
In my case, the application had an MSI file. It would start initially, go through the TOS routine, then pop up w/ a box saying “this application is incompatible with this OS version” or something to that effect. Getting a verbose log from MSIExec, I saw the VersionNT and VersionNT64 properties were set to 600. While you can set some properties via. the command line, it didn’t seem to work for these.
I could open the MSI file up in notepad & see the whole “versionNT = 502″ or < = 500 logic... so I was about to find a hex editor to try to tweak these values. But I found something better!
So long story short, I used InstEd to remove the LaunchCondition that had the OS version rules in it (very easy, only deleted one "line").
http://www.instedit.com/home.html
Arris: Thanks! Interesting tool! Will take a look at it.
I use Wallpaper Manager and Show Desktop programs at startup.
Small icons for taskbar :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
Write this in a text file and rename as .reg file and run. Example: Taskbar.reg
;Created for AskVG.com by Vishal Gupta
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
“MinWidth”=”-255″
If you want to cancel it from regitry, write this in a text file and rename as .reg file. Example: TaskbarCancel.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
“MinWidth”=-
These reg files are from Vishal Gupta’s http://www.askvg.com website.
Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP Professional are the best products of Microsoft.
These are my test results :
1- Windows Server 2008 (fastest and best)
2- Windows XP Professional (forever OS)
3- Windows 7 Ultimate (deleted from my computers)
4- Windows Vista Ultimate (deleted from my computers)
i think Windows XP Professional are the best products of Microsoft
where i can download windows 2008
Arris: The URL to download the Windows Server 2008 iso can be found here.
I had used windows 95, 98, windows 2000, now using 2003. I never used Win XP on my PC. When using Win 2008 as workstation, it will cost more for license ?
Arris: It won’t cost you anything as long as you use the method to rearm it up to 240 days and then reinstall it. In case you don’t want to reinstall every 240 days, consider purchasing a Technet License (Paul Thurrott) or any other methods to get a cheap/free serial.
Got a Gateway DX4840-02m that came with an Intel video card, but needed more power so I bought a MSI Nvidia GT 240, that worked perfectly with Windows 7 x64, but after I installed Windows 2008 R2, windows would not start: I would get a BSOD saying STOP 0×00000116, and that the problem was at nvlddmkm.sys.
Tried everything, older drivers, newest driver, full OS reinstall, nothing worked… and then I decided to try the SP1 RC… and… it worked! I would love to know which feature or hotfix in the SP1 fixed the BSOD. Maybe what fixed it is RemoteFX ?
Arris: Interesting finding. As far as I know SP1 is just a collection of hotfixes with as extra RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory which I cant relate to your problem. It might also be the fact that something went wrong during the first installation and was fixed by doing a clean installation? Anyway, I’m glad it works for you now.
Hey I wanna try this but is there any way to get win 7 aero instead of vista aero, because I heard that win 7 is stripped down version of server r2? I will use windows server 2008 r2 enterprise.
Arris: That’s right! There is a full website dedicated to convert the R2 edition of Windows Server to a workstation: http://www.win2008r2workstation.com/. Enjoy!
I LIKE THE WINDOWS 2008 I WILL BUY IT SOON.