Digital Cable Tuner Resources

CableCARD™ and Digital Cable FAQ Digital Cable Tuner Setup for Windows Media Center in Windows Vista – A Set-by-Step Guide for Professional Technicians (pdf) Dell XPS Desktop Forum

XPS 420 & Radeon ATI HD2600 XT – Choppy DVD Playback

I got my XPS 420, took an image of HDD (32 bit OEM OS) and installed Vista Ultimate x64, downloaded and installed all the drivers from support.dell.com and then also updated newer drivers for the video and network cards and updated the firmware on the ATI Digital Cable Tuner.   Everything that I’ve tested so far [...]

Dell XPS 420

I finally decided to buy a Dell XPS 420 desktop computer this weekend.  Dell is running a great deal for Mother’s Day; $350 off XPS 420 systems.  I’m not a mother, but who cares right?  I can get the configuration that I want cheaper than I can get with my Employee Purchase Program discount mainly [...]

WSUS 3.0 SP1 Role in Server Manager

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP1 was recently released by Microsoft to support Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.  In addition, Microsoft enhanced the product to include: Enhanced bulk approval capability, preserving existing approvals. Support for separate proxy servers and ports for SSL and non-SSL traffic. Office Excel report export. However, out of [...]

Using Sysprep with BitLocker

When SYSPREPing a PC that has been partitioned for use with Windows BitLocker, you may receive the following error after the system restarts: The system registry contains invalid file paths.  Installation cannot proceed.  This system image was applied without guaranteeing that drive-letter assignments would match across computers. The issue has to do with the order [...]

Using Windows PE with Ghost

In the past I have always used a Ghost boot disk or a bootable CD-ROM to take and deploy ghost images.  But, now that I am ordering desktops and laptops without floppy drives and with the creation of Ghost boot disks becoming more difficult since they rely on DOS and DOS network drivers, there has [...]

Dell XPS M1330, the story doesn’t end

My Dell XPS M1330 finally arrived yesterday.  I was pleasantly surprised that it showed up after some confusion over its DHL tracking status. As I have posted about previously, the first thing I always do when getting a new computer is to install a fresh copy of Windows without all the “crap” software installed.  In [...]

Vista BitLocker on Dell GX620

The Dell Optiplex GX620 comes standard with an ST Microelectronics Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2.  The TPM is disabled by default and must be enabled in the BIOS.  However, even after enabling the TPM and properly partitioning the hard drive for BitLocker, Vista reports (from the tpm.msc) that a “TPM cannot be found on this computer”. [...]

Enable Windows Vista BitLocker

I started playing around with a new feature in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate versions called BitLocker that allows the Windows partition to be encrypted. Of course, I tried to enable Bitlocker without first reading the documentation.  That was a mistake, because the first thing you have to do before installing Vista is to properly partition [...]

Zune supports Windows Vista

Windows Vista is now a supported Operating System for the Zune. There have been many reports by the media that the Zune is not supported by Vista.  However, the zuneinsider.com reports that Microsoft updated the Zune software on Dec 19 to make the Zune compatable with Windows Vista.  My testing as of January 8, 2007 also shows that the Zune MarketPlace software [...]

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