Posts under Tag: windows 7
“Access Denied” when encrypting a memory stick with BitLocker

At a customer this week, where BitLocker To Go is mandatory on Windows 7 machines, we discovered a problem encrypting USB memory sticks (flash drives). With the GPO settings at the customer, BitLocker To Go detects when a removable disk is plugged in to the machine, and prompts the user to either encrypt the drive or mount it read-only. When [...]

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Windows 7 and the Intel 965 video driver

I like trying out new stuff. That’s one of the reasons I upgraded my testing machine to Windows 7. Unfortunately the driver that is included with Windows 7 for the Intel 965 Mobile is far from perfect. Nasty side effects are: flickering taskbar, black boxes on random places of the screen, minimize / maximize / close buttons hidden, taskbar disappearing… [...]

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Windows 7 on a Mac!

Most people will agree that Apple products have certain kind of coolness. Most people will also agree that VMware Fusion has a certain kind of coolness, especially the Unity feature. Combine this coolness with the Windows 7 beta and you’ve got one hell of a combo. I can imagine you don’t want to spent a lot of time on figuring [...]

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