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How-to Upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.x to Windows 10 Using Windows Update

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The final release of Windows 10 isn’t available yet but if you’re testing upgrades of existing computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8 because you want to see how it goes, you can also test the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.x to Windows 10 Using Windows Update. Note that Microsoft has announced a Free upgrade for […]

DISM GUI 4.0 Utility – Free tool to manage WIM images

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In case you want to add/remove drivers from *.WIM images, there is a graphical interface for the DISM command line utility written in the .NET. It’s called a DISM GUI 4.0 utility and allows you to mount and dismount WIMs, manage drivers, features and packages. Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool included […]

CloudByte ElastiStor Community Edition is out – Up to 25 TB Free for life

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There is a new Community edition or ElastiStor available from CloudByte. This version announces up to 25Tb free storage for ever.  ElastiStor lets you custom-build storage infrastructure based on your requirements, with support for SATA, SAS, and SSD hardware as well as NFS, CIFS, FC, and iSCSI protocols. ElastiStor OS is built using FreeBSD 9 […]

Smart Packager Community Edition – Free Package Builder

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Smart Packager Community Edition (CE), formerly WinINSTALL LE, is the most popular Free MSI packagers. This Free version is for packaging non-MSI applications only. It offers a very easy caption process which allows you to “record” installation of an application with all its dependencies. It then creates an msi package. This free repackaging software is […]

WinPE ISO Tool – Free AOMEI PE Builder

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If you’re Bart PE user you might want to check out this free utility which is easy to install and use. It allows to create Win PE bootable environment without installing Microsoft WAIK. The tool has also some built-in tools and additionally you can add your own utilities very easy which gets exported in the […]

ESXi Free Version – 3 Ways to Clone a VM

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When you have an ESXi standalone hypervisor running in a lab or test environment, it’s not possible (simple way) to clone a VM. If the host is managed by vCenter server, than it’s a simple right click > clone VM. But in situations where vCenter server is not available, what’s your options? The ESXi Free Version is […]

VMware App Volumes Deployment Guide – Get Your Copy

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VMware App Volumes (previously Cloud Volumes) are generally available from VMware. The product has now been integrated and can be I had the chance to see the live demo during this year’s VMworld and also recorded a video from the presentation. It’s pretty impressive to see almost unlimited number of applications being delivered to a […]

How-to Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text With ClipX – Free Clipboard Manager

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So many times I’ve been looking into a some kind of clipboard manager which would remember what you have copied into the clipboard earlier. Some kind of clipboard with history. The tool I found can Copy Paste Repetitive Graphics or Text. I found it! This tool is for anyone when working with portions of text […]

Veeam Endpoint Backup – Recovery Goodies

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There are some cool utilities in the upcoming Veeam Endpoint Backup (currently in beta). I wrote about the product during VMworld Barcelona but now I had the beta access so I could test in my lab a bit further. I installed it on my laptop. While the Bare metal restore is certainly one of the highlights, […]