In addition to the Consumer Preview of Windows 8, and the betas of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET 4.5 framework, Microsoft on Wednesday also released the beta of Windows Server 8. Best of all, the minimum system requirements are: a 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor, 512MB of RAM, and 32 GB of storage. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/v8-default.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?ocid=&wt.mc_id=TEC_108_1_33 […]
Are you looking for some keyboard shortcuts to save you some time? Look no more my friend. Win + C = Opens the Charms Bar Win + D = Show the desktop Win + E = Opens Windows Explorer Win + F = Opens the Search feature Win + H = Opens the Share Charm […]
The long anticipated Consumer Preview (beta) build of Windows 8 has finally been released by Microsoft. So far I am enjoying this new OS. It’s quick fun and best of all “new”. According to Microsoft, the next milestone will be the Release Candidate and after that will be the Release to Manufacturing (RTM), and general […]
Invite your friends to Dropbox!
Hi all, I just wanted to ask you to please help me increase my free online storage space. For every friend who joins and installs Dropbox, I’ll get we both get 250 MB of bonus space (up to a limit of 8 GB)! If you don’t have an account, now is a good time to […]
In a previous post I went over using Virtual Box because I was unable to run Windows 8 (* preview) in a VMware Player and it required me to have Workstation 8. Well my wait is over and now the latest version of VMware player will run Win8. Oh happy day… About:VMware Player With […]
Disk usage in Windows
Windows does not have any in-built command(Like the Linux command du) which show the disk usage statistics for a directory. However, there’s a downloadable tools from SysInternals(now part of Microsoft) which can show us the disk usage numbers. Du.exe version 1.4 can be downloaded from the below link. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896651 Find the disk usage of a directory […]