So … my mother was uning a old windows 2000 and had been doing it since it was installed, only a few thing updated in the time and now problems what so ever with it. I keep using “If it aint broken dont update it”.

But the bank she's been using so supporting Windows 2000, the other day, so I kind a have to update the operating system now … :-(

But the computer she got don’t have a DVD drive so what to do …

Boot from a USB media, what the first option I came across, but while not sure the hardware support it, I opened my favorite seach page … google of cause and found Kevin’s blog. For reference there is a copy of Kevin steps below.

Witch looked really simple … so I started with that.

So … now I’m installing from a USB Media … awesome.

Problems I ran into:

Graphics card: Asus 7100 Pro aka GeForce2 MX 400, Windows 7 did not have a driver and I could not find one on nvidia.com so I went to google again and found this: Windows 7 and Geforce2 GTS. The file has been attached to the post. Seems to run great, and now I can run more than: 1024x768, YAHHH. Forceware 71.89 working under Win7.ZIP (18.76 mb)

Kevin’s steps: taken from Kevin’s blog post

Required:

• USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
• Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
• A computer running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. [Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]

1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive
2. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
3. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
   diskpart
   list disk
   The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.  I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
4. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
   select disk 1
   clean
   create partition primary
   select partition 1
   active
   format fs=NTFS
   assign
   exit
   When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable 
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable.  In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:

1. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
2. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
   d:
   cd d:\boot
3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
   bootsect /nt60 g:
4. You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here.

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive.  After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.

Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB
This is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Most BIOS’s allow you to hit a key at boot and select a boot option.

Forceware 71.89 working under Win7.ZIP (18.76 mb)

The Danish TechEd coordinator was so lucky to get Bernhard Frank to tell all the Danish people at TechEd Berlin 2009 about all the news in IIS 7.5, and in the end there will be time for Q&A, its free for Danes.

Afterwards there will a 3 dinners menu, so the attendees don't have to wait in line for the official dinner.

I’m really looking forward for this, as I’m working on a daily basis with the IIS server.

INFO: I will update this post, when I have attended the session.

When I first get my hands on Windows 7 when it was released to MSDN subscribers august 6th. Download was slow … probably because all started downloading it right away, so no biggy really.

The annoying things

• Enable Aero Peek – DARN i hate this … I know where my windows are, and this should be disabled by design. Then people who need to be more confused when changing windows can enable it. I HATE IT.

To disable it, goto:

1. Control Panel –> System
2. Advanced System Settings
3. The tab“Advanced”
4. Then the Settings bottom under “Performance” panel.
5. There the little bastard are … disabled it ftw …

Microsoft Messenger dont show up in the notifications area, but as a running program.

Do make it go into the notification area, do the following

1. start –> type “msnmsgr”, it will then show the file under the group “Programs”
2. Right click it and choose properties
3. In the popup, choose the “Compatibility” tab.
4. Under “Compatibility mode”, check the box “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” and choose “Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)” in the drop down.

Now it back as it should be … nice and quiet in the notification area.