3 Oct
2009

Removing U3 from Your Thumb Drives

U3 is a technology used install boot software on thumb drives. Companies use this to ensure that some little application will get loaded or something when you plug their thumb drive into your Windows machine. This can be a favorite move of vendors who give away thumb drives at conferences as swag. They want to […]

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2 Oct
2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 is Windows 7 “Server”

Sometimes people get tripped up by this – at the least, its a little confusing.  A brief history lesson: First there was Windows Server 2003.  And then in 2005, Microsoft released something of a super-service-pack with new functionality, patches, and other stuff.  It was much more than a regular service pack, full of optional components […]

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