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Archive for January, 2009

Your investment in Vista deployment with WDS/MDT will be rewarded with Windows 7!

Posted by Jacques on 21st January 2009

All what you learned in this field can and will be used with Windows 7 and MDT 2010. This is great. And with nice improvements!. I grabbed what was most interesting to me from the Windows System Deployment blog: ImageX and its underlying infrastructure, which is used to manage Windows Image (WIM) format images, now [...]

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Lag typing and slow cursor in Word 2007?

Posted by Jacques on 19th January 2009

The cursor may become irritatingly slow when Track Changes is turn on and the Review ribbon is up (i.e., not minimized), but speeds up again when you leave the Review tab or the ribbon is minimized. One work around that seems to be pretty efficient is to minimize the ribbon. You can still access the [...]

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How to sequence Google Chrome for App-V 4.5

Posted by Jacques on 18th January 2009

Try to find a stand-alone installer instead of using Google Update (quite a challenge) Start Monitoring and just install Chrome normally Stay in monitoring and move the whole Google folder from the user’s AppData\Local folder to the Q: drive, e.g Q:\GChrome.010\Google Still in Monitoring, delete all the created Chrome shortcuts. Create a new one pointing [...]

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Issue when sequencing PyMOL 1.1r1 for App-V 4.5

Posted by Jacques on 18th January 2009

The sequencing steps are common and straight forward. Publishing the package is easy too. But a launching on the client, PyMol stops with an error, telling that the PYMOL_PATH value could not be found in the environment nor in the registry. PyMOL installer indead creates a registry entry to store the path of the PyMOL [...]

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