Larry Larsen
LarryLarsen
A new world man putting the new world in order.
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Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for FileMicrosoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to Defrag...
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WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social ScientistToday we'll chat with Danah Boyd. Danah is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Mass., exploring social media. You can read more about Danah in this NY Times article posted this week.
How did you get into technology?
As a child, I remember playing a few computer games an...
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Mike Downey on the HTML5 Player FrameworkJan 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM
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Mike Downey of the Media Platform Evangelism Team talks about the release of the HTML5 Player Framework version 1.0. This new open source video player encompasses HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone and other application platforms. Downey also talks about the framework's adaptability for d...
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Defrag: Gov's Nest, Bitlocker Q's, Win7 Defrag,Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip...
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Defrag: Admin Accounts, Block Sizes, PerfViewMicrosoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to Defrag...
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WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM
In this series I'll be asking thought leaders around Microsoft about how they got here and where they think things are going. If there are interesting people you'd like to hear from ping me at LarryLa (at) Microsoft.com with suggestions for people and the questions you're most interested in. To...
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Defrag: So You Just Got a New PCThis being our first show post-holidays, we've decided to talk about the steps that each of us take when getting a new PC. What's the first thing you do? What software do you install? How do you prepare for digital disaster? Let us know in the comments what steps you take.
Microsoft tech troubleshoot...
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Defrag - Page File Needed, Image Tags, Fast Gaming PCMicrosoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to Defrag...
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A Look Behind the Art of Touch SiteDec 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM 8
Recently the hardware team got together with ZAAZ and built a very interesting HTML5 site called http://www.ArtofTouch.com The site lets you create and share digital art on a canvas, inspired by Microsoft's line of Touch mice. I sat down with Scott Moir, Director of Technology at ZAA...
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Defrag: Reset Zoom in IE, Display Properties via CL, AppData CompressionMicrosoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to Defrag...
Staff
Here is a list of Channel 9 staff members.
WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM
Jan 06, 2012 at 10:46 AMThere is no list, just interesting Microsoft employees who lead us in various areas, in this case fontography. The next interview will be with Danah Boyd, who is a thought leader around social media. Stay tuned.
Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC
Jan 04, 2012 at 2:40 PM@Kevin: You're probably preaching to the choir here. We agree. As for your comment about 'come on Microsoft, don't you see this?" Sure, we are PC users too. That's why all the machines sold at a Microsoft Store come without third party installs. But we don't build PC's - OEM's do. I'm glad we allow them some liberties in their own sandbox. Sometimes the software they include on a machine is very helpful, look at the custom images that Newtek uses for their Tricaster. They couldn't do that if we didn't allow them to put together a custom image.
Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC
Jan 04, 2012 at 2:32 PM@dtower: HA! Sure. So it was a typical home PC that I had built myself. I had the case open and one of the drives was in the wrong spot so I I wanted to move it to the bay below where it was. I *knew* I should have turned the PC off, but I didn't. I unscrewed the drive, pulled it out, as I moved it to the spot below it, I saw the tiniest spark gap between the hard drive and the frame of the PC. It was fried and I was never able to recover anything from it again. I lost original files for logos, invoices, scans, all kinds of really critical data. It was such a loss of data that it really hit me hard.
I'm happy to say almost 15 years later I've not lost a single bit of data, knock on silicon.
Defrag: So You Just Got a New PC
Jan 04, 2012 at 1:27 PM@wkempf: If you want a machine like that, just buy one at a Microsoft Store. They use "Microsoft Signature" machines in the stores. (i.e. no "crapware") [thanks Andrew Richards for the link]
To your statement about how you shouldn't have to uninstall apps; my full ascent. I absolutely agree, but the economics of OEM margins and the freedom allowed OEM's means they can do it if they like. Best practice is to speak with your wallet.
Defrag - Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores
Dec 05, 2011 at 10:14 AM@dtower:Tried that last night and it didn't work. Also shot a short video of it for Gov to help troubleshoot.
Defrag - Unplayable Media Center files, Missing RAM, Closing Cores
Nov 30, 2011 at 2:30 PM@windev: That's kind of the opposite experience I've got, it works best when very close (~3'). I'll try Gov's and see if it's just a bad unit. Thanks.
Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage
Oct 26, 2011 at 10:14 AM@MagicAndrew1981: Gov already has his correction written!
@WinDev: It certainly doesn't work as planned. We'll talk about it when we shoot the show tomorrow morning.
@TrickyDickie: 1) Thanks for the heads up. 2) We use Samsung monitors in the studio. I believe the center one is a 55" 7000 Series LCD, the two side ones belong to Clint Rutkas from Coding for Fun. I believe those are 46" 8000 Series, but I can check next time I'm over. You might notice half way through the show the one behind Gov went out. We have some really long runs of HDMI and one started acting up about 15 minutes in so we just cut it.
Update: The two side monitors in the studio are Samsung Model code: UN55C6800UFXZA, the center monitor is a Samsung PN58B550T2FXZA.
Defrag: Disable Show Desktop, Hide User Accounts, Accurate Energy Usage
Oct 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM@reply to comment: Usually we have MP3's and this is in the process of being baked back in.
Check It Out: Mouse Without Borders
Sep 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM@ahmed: You want our studio camera's background? Sure, here's one we use for Channel 9 Live that I used to make the camera BG's: http://imgur.com/9ZaL1 If you want one of the ones from a camera, you'll have to pick which one. There are cameras 1 through 3 and a "screencap" BG.
Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI
Sep 15, 2011 at 1:45 PM@Fabulous_Fadz: I just used your question about left handed users on Channel 9 Live. If you missed it live, keep an eye out for my interview with Sam Moreau on WinUI. It should be up in a day here.
Thanks,
Larry
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