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RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 by Scott Hanselman's Blog

Just about a month ago the IEBlog published a post to allow business to manage the update schedule for Internet Explorer 10. It says "this approach lets organizations control when they are ready to deploy IE10 to their Windows 7 users." I took...
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Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Developer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) by Scott Hanselman

I've posted before about my intense live for Booting off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) . It's lovely. Of course, once Hyper-V on the client happens, it will matter less, but for now, here I am, a guy with a perfectly good, working Windows 7 machine...
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The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop by Scott Hanselman

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the...

How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed? by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I did a second .NET Framework features informal poll recently , and as with all .NET related polls the question comes up: How many PCs have the .NET Framework on it? If you're a company that is considering creating a client application using .NET...

NewsFlash: Computers are Faster Than Before - Importing Digital Video from Tape and Making a DVD by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

The Wife and I travelled all over the world before we had kids (and all over the world after, actually...both boys have been on three continents) and amassed a huge pile of Video Tapes of our travels. I started with a Sony Digital 8 camera that recorded...
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Favor - Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU) by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

The folks in the .NET Framework Setup team have a favor to ask, and it's pretty cool info so I offered to help. Here's the deal. When .NET 4 releases, the .NET 4 Client Profile will be released as a recommended update on Windows Update (WU) for...
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2009 Blogged - Greatest Hits by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts...
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The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 - Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Wow, this was the longest time I've ever gone without blogging. It was very interesting being (reasonably) unplugged. I was even more unplugged this time than last year when we spent Christmas in South Africa (where I was blogging near-daily over...
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Our little team is growing - Welcome to Jon Galloway and Pete Brown by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Just about two years ago I joined Microsoft . I'm fortunate to work in a home office with a great team that I now lead . We work for the group at Microsoft that runs MSDN , TechNet , ASP.NET , Silverlight.NET , WindowsClient.NET , basically all the...
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Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

There are few issues that divide computer people like that thousand-year-old question: How many icons should you have on your desktop? Some folks say, "Load 'em up! Make those pixels work for you." Others say, "I like a fresh bowl desktop...
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Using a Bluetooth Jawbone Headset for BT-Audio (Microphone or Speakers) on Windows 7 by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I installed a PILE of new drivers tonight from Lenovo using their most awesome System Update 4.0 . Included was a Bluetooth Stack update . On a whim, I tried to pair my Jawbone Bluetooth Headset , something that has never worked before, and it worked...
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The Weekly Source Code 46 - Jeff Key rocks Taskbar Meters that Monitor your Windows 7 CPU and Memory and Disk in the Taskbar by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

It's funny to watch things go viral, even just a little viral on the Internet. Here's what happened, but more importantly, we'll talk about the code. Let's also make it complete clear that Jeff Key rocks. See picture at left, in between...
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Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

I'm digging Windows 7 more and more. So much so, that I'm watching out for apps that use new features like Jump Lists, Libraries, Power Management, Taskbar Progress Bars, Icon overlays, Multitouch, Ribbon, High DPI, Sensors, Locations, etc . I...
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A new MSDN for a new Operating System and a new Development Environment by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

The team I work at Microsoft for is called Server and Tools Online, and one of the things we work on is the Microsoft Developer Network or "MSDN." If you go way, way up, our boss is Soma ( Yes, this Soma ), but down here in the trenches there's...
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Windows Tip: Easily show your Computer Name in the Taskbar by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

For those of you (and me) who manage more than one computer or remote into many computers or virtual machines, it can be very hard to remember which machine you're on. There are many solutions out there for stamping your computer name. Most often...
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