easy transfer between vista and windows 7

create the new easy transfer wizard in windows 7, then run that wizard on the old vista. he said he would give that old vista PC to someone he hate. well that is another story.
 if you got three users on the vista, create 3 users with the same name in the new PC. then start the transfer. it seems fine. I used treesize to checked it.

after the transfer, some secured contente (itunes) asks for the original password. I skipped it, it didn't ask twice.

PPTP jungle

when you do pptp in a private subnet, you can't connect to yourself.

interesting is that worked last week when I was working on a vista PC. the pptp server is a windows xp pro, surprisingly I can pptp back.

But at another location, pptp started verifying u/p, eventually fail. probably because there is a sonicwall at this site.

Toshiba Portege R600 and an EU company glabal warning

Toshiba Portege R600 and an EU company glabal warning, what happened if a notebook get lost. someone has to scamble for days to get back on feet again.

well, an european company told their global distrubutors to get two identical notebooks. the idea is to back up the data, and copy the data back to the notebook that still available.

to do that a new toshoba portege r600 is ordered for the local boss. that's not the exact version of the old version. the cpu is different, and the new one got 3G wireless. this is not a cheap model. But I doubt it has a solid state hard drive.

so took an image of old R600 hard drive. the shadow protect speed runs at 26MB/s which is not bad.

luckily this user only stores his data under his profile. so Use synback to copy his profile to a network drive.

The new R600 is running W7, the original is running W-XP (got vista license downgraded).

Boot from Shadow Protect IT ed Q4'09, select legacy w2003 restore mode, surprsingly it won't see the w7 loaded disk.
boot again select vista based restore mode. things are fine.

windows security essentials for windows server 2003 / 2008

nope.

the free MS windows security essentials is for windows xp / vista / 7.
it doesn't seem for server.

alphcom 6 on XP mode (install apps in XP mode)

alphcom 6 on XP mode. I know alphacom 6 wont work on windows vista. Alphacom 7 can.

to get Alphacom 6 work on W7, open XP mode virtual PC, and install the alphacom program.

the installed program will appear in W7 program menu under XP mode.

easy transfer and windows xp

windows xp file&settings transfer wizard can't transfer password.
But W7 (vista ?) easy transfer can do that.

systeminfo

systeminfo cmd is quite usefull to display windows xp/2003/vista installation date. in vista it can show boot time.