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How to fool Windows 8 into using your SD-card in the media applications

Running Windows 8? Want to use the SD-card slot with the Music or Movies-applications in Windows 8? Windows Media Player won’t include stuff in the library that’s stored on removable storage so here’s how to fool it!

Create a VHD on an SD-card (or USB, but that’ll stick out of your Slate (which I’m running)).… Read the rest

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Adding your key to Windows 8 for successful activation

When you’ve installed Windows 8 it won’t let you edit certain settings until you’ve activated it. But to be able to do that you’ll need to enter your license key first. There’s no obvious way of doing that in the enterprise version, so just do it like it’s done in Server Core in three easy steps:

  1. Fire up CMD with administrative rights.
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Windows 8 hits RTM status, Release Preview available for download.

The process towards release and general availability continues and now Windows 8 has hit RTM (Release To Manufacturing). If you’re in a hurry testing the Release Preview version is still available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download but rumour has it that it’ll be publicly available October 26.… Read the rest

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Unboxing the Samsung Slate

The Samsung Slate is a fantastic device and now that I’ve finally gotten my hands on one (thank you SO very much!) I’ll share my experiences with you.

Unboxing stuff is always exciting and I’m glad to say that Samsung actually manages to give the user a great experience, it’s not a PC in a cardboard box.… Read the rest

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Lots of stuff happening!

At the moment there are lots of stuff happening, both in our industry and at home.

This week I’ve started programming PowerShell seriously, trying to convert an “advanced” script to PowerShell since it’s supposed to be fewer lines of code. I bet it is, once you get past the initial irritation… Like why can’t I set the error message that validateset throws?… Read the rest

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