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Hyper-V: Compact Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk

I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]

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Technical

Tech Short Q&A: What is a Hypervisor?

It’s interesting that this classification isn’t new. In fact it was classified by Gerald J. Popek back in 1974 in the article “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures” So to answer the question: A hypervisor is a hardware virtualization technique which allows multiple guest operating systems to run on a single host system hardware […]

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News

What is Sway

What is Sway? That was the question I had asked this morning when I logged into my Office 365 account. Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office. It lets you create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, newsletters, vacation memories, school and work projects, and more. In this video, you’ll see an example […]

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News Software

Windows 10 Editions

Just like all versions of Windows previously released there are editions tailored for the needs of the few and those of the many. Here is a little post with info from the windows blogs on the various versions of Windows 10   Windows 10 Home: is the consumer-focused desktop edition. It offers a familiar and personal […]

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Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB, What’s That?

If you pondered on what is “LTSB”. Here is some “shared” info for you. What is the Long Term Servicing Branch? “Windows 10 uses a new approach to providing updates to users. Traditionally Microsoft would release a version of Windows and then provide updates such as security and bug fixes, but not add any major, […]

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Microsoft highlights new Edge features in Windows 10

Microsoft is gearing up and I am super excited. I hope some of this video will get you just as excited [youtube id=”VX4MROp6rng” width=”600″ height=”350″]