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Installing Vista Business on Virtual PC 2007

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Following up my recent LDNUG presentation of Windows Vista and the .NET 3.0 Framework, here is a screenshot tour of my installation journey with Windows Vista on Virtual PC 2007.
Prerequisites

Virtual PC 2007 (free download)
A healthy amount of RAM (I have 1GB, it ran fine once I turned off some services like SqlServer and IIS. [...]

Installing .NET 3.0 Framework on Windows XP SP2

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Why would you want to do this? I’m not sureyet, but as an ASP.NET developer, I know I’m probably going to need to understand how to use it.
The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0, which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. You [...]

Error While Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows XP

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I’m setting up a new PC with all the tools a Web Developer might need. While installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005, I encountered the following error during setup:
SQL Server Setup failed to obtain system account information for the ASPNET account. To proceed, reinstall the .NET Framework, and then run SQL Server Setup again.
This is [...]

Operating System Not Found

Friday, October 13th, 2006

My home PC (an ancient HP) running Windows XP Pro crashed today (again). I guess Visual Studio, Sql Management Studio, Internet Explorer and an install (updated Atlas Control Toolkit) were too much for the old girl! When I rebooted The following message displayed:
Operating system not found

I rebooted again and everything was normal. [...]

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