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 […]
Tag: Windows 8
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 […]
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 […]
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Windows 8 & Sun VirtualBox
While I wait for Windows 8 I look for ways to run this in a virtual machine on my workstations. I have been successful in running Windows 8 on ESXi and VMware Workstation 8 I had no luck with using the free product VMware Player 4.X. VMware Player was updated and now supports the […]
So you are running ESXi5 standalone in my house or your office. You have a need up patch this baby for the latest in driver support for guest and perhaps for Runing Windows 8 on vSphere 5 Here are a few things you might want to know and do to make this happen Make […]
So I have had this desire to run Windows 8 in VMware vSphere 5 for a long time now. Knowing I could run it in Workstation 8; I wanted to also run this on my ESXi 5 host, but could not… So I waiting waited for an update. I wasn’t going to hack my way to […]