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Windows 8, minus metro UI

Who would have known that I’d love the Windows 7 start menu.  Well I want it back and with the following tweak you can re-enable the classic start menu that we all have come to love. To get back the old start menu, open regedit, goto HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer change value of RPEnabled from “1” to “0” […]

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VHD! Booting Windows 8

Why wipe your system clean to preview Windows 8 developer preview when you can simply use the good old VHD to boot it up on your system. Here is the quickest method to do this.  <Warning — This is GEEK / not GREEK > Boot from the Win8dev DVD or USB When in setup the […]

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Windows 8

The folks at Microsoft made available a developer preview edition of Windows 8, which permits us to get a good hands on the new windows to operating system.    After some testing and attempts to get this to install on VMware products such as ESX and VMware Workstation 7 / Player I was able to test […]