Category: Windows XP

• Game Over… Soon.

  Microsoft announced this week that they are going to shut down the servers that support on-line games for Windows 7, XP, and ME.  These include: Internet Backgammon (Windows XP, ME, 7) Internet Checkers (Windows XP, ME, 7) Internet Spades (Windows XP, ME, 7) Internet Hearts (Windows XP, ME) Internet Reversi (Windows XP, ME) MSN Go…

  Mitch Garvis

  July 11, 2019

  Games, Windows 7, Windows XP

• Still on XP? There should be a reason…

  For the past year or so I have been counting down (on Twitter) the days left until the #EndOfDaysXP… as of the date of this article it stands at 591 days.  Some of my followers think it is silly, others thank me for it.  Some want to know why it matters, and there are a…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 24, 2012

  Windows 8, Windows XP

  John Marshall, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Twitter, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP

• Missing the Obvious: A great reason to ask for expert opinions.

  I received the following e-mail from a colleague, and was glad to answer her questions.  However the most important question of all is her last one… “Have I missed any other issues that I should be looking at before beginning this migration?’”  I am so glad she asked that, because none of us are experts…

  Mitch Garvis

  January 18, 2012

  Migration, Windows 7, Windows XP, XP Mode

• The Student Has Become The Master!

  Monday evening I attended the monthly user group meeting of the Wellington Waterloo IT Pro User Group (http://www.wwitpro.com/) in Kitchener, Ontario.  The topic for the evening was called Windows 7 Deployment as presented by Sean Kearney (yes, THE Sean Kearney, a.k.a. The Energized Tech, a.k.a. (the former) Friday Funny Guy!) from SWMI Consulting Group and…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 29, 2011

  Article, Blog, Community, Deployment, Energized Tech, Hewlett Packard, HP, IT Pro, Jacqueline Hutchinson, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft MVP, Sean Kearney, Springboard, Springboard Technical Experts Panel, STEP, SWMI, Unattend.xml, User Group, Windows 7, Windows PE, Windows XP, WWITPro

• Creating a Bootable USB Key

  It seems that some of my articles got chopped during the move to WordPress.  Doh!  Here are the simple instructions to create a bootable USB key: Open a Command Prompt session with Administrator privileges. Run the Disk Partition utility (diskpart.exe) Type List Disk to see a list of drives on your computer.  Determine which is…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 3, 2011

  Article, Ask the Expert, Bootable USB, Deployment, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, USB Key, Windows 7, Windows PE, Windows XP

• Mitch Visits One Police Plaza

  A couple of weeks ago one attendee was a detective with the NYPD, and he offered to take me behind the scenes at One Police Plaza so that I could take a look at a few of the units that use information technology (IT) for a lot more than just paperwork and filing. I had…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 15, 2010

  Article, Cyber Crime, Cyber Police, Deployment, Laptop, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft Office, New York, New York Police Department, NYPD, Police, Real Time Crime Center, RTCC, SnagIt, TechSmith, Windows XP