After just coming back to XP (link) This is a great list of new free software to try.   Description: I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how [...]

Most of the time I blog about Windows Speech related things, but today I found a really neat utility written by Kenny Kerr I just have to share. It’s called Window Clippings. It makes capturing screen shots of Windows applications much easier than the built in PrintScreen capabilities, and it rivals commercially available software, IMO. [...]

Clear instructions on how to use Ghost and Sysprep to create a universal disk image of Windows XP that will restore onto any computer. No more reinstalling necessary after making this. Link: Hisham?€™s Blog [Via Two Mad Geeks]

this is great! I use both kix and batch files for startup scripts Command line plus description and associated switches. Link: Microsoft [Via Two Mad Geeks]

This is written for VM Workstation, but a lot of the ideas will work on ESX. Virtual Strategy Magazine published a tutorial on how create and customize an optimized master virtual machine for creating several clones for work: Many people have been asking for some tips on how to build a VMware Workstation virtual machine. [...]

Barb Bowman introduces you to the latest version of wireless security WPA2 and shows you how to implement it on your Windows XP SP2 based computers. [Via Windows XP Expert Zone Community]

I’ve been searching for a way to allow a non-admin on Windows XP to change the network settings (IP address,subnet,gateway,dns,etc) Well I was search for a solution I found this blog posting about a nice little script that will make a user an admin, start a new process with admin rights, then remove the user [...]

In my work over the years I’ve noticed that I usually use the same tools when dealing with Server Based Computing environments. I’ve decided to bundle all the tools that I frequently use into an "installer" package called Thincomputing.net Tools. The Thincomputing.net Tools package download is about 4MB in size. All tools should run on [...]

I don’t know how many e-mails I’ve received asking me about alternative solutions to commercial CD and DVD burning applications like Nero and Roxio, so I’ve finally decided to put together a short but sweet list of free applications so you can create your own CDs and DVDs at home. Read on for the full [...]