Jeff Lomax

• How To: Setup and use File History on Windows 8

  May 16, 2013 at 10:52 AM

  Just remember that File History is what it says, FILES.  Your programs are not backed up.  In order to do that, you need to use the "Windows 7 File Recovery" mentioned near the end of the blog post.

  However, there ARE some important differences for "Windows 7 File Recovery" in Windows 8. 

  First, the recovery partition now has to be 350MB, which is larger than Windows 7 used.  If you upgrade a Windows 7 machine and your System Image fails, this is likely the cause.  Find a 3rd party tool that can expand it or do a clean install and it's fixed.

  Second, the recovery disc is now UEFI boot.  This means if you have an ultrabook and don't use optical drives, the "Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool" Microsoft provided for Window 7 will fail to create a bootable USB Flash drive from your recovery disc for you.  Microsoft hasn't bothered to update it.

  Speaking of that, can anyone recommend a tustworthy took that can create a bootable EFI Win 8 Recovery USB Stick from the ISO?  Anyone know WHY Microsoft doesn't just let us choose a USB Flash drive to store our Recovery Disk to?  Let's hope Microsoft realizes it's a optical disc free world faster than they did for floppy drives...

• TWC9: VS 2012 Update 2 CTP3, Save Project As, Zooming Windows 8 and more

  Feb 19, 2013 at 9:39 AM

  BLINK is not available for Windows Phone 7. 

• TWC9: Sharing Code, Cheat Sheets, and Jump Starting!

  Dec 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM

  PhotoBeamer requires Windows Phone 8, Nokia Lumia 900 owners are not invited.

• TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, Visual Studio 2012 RC, Storyboards, HTML5 and more

  Jun 04, 2012 at 6:26 AM

  If you said "I really like the advancements in VS 2012" then MAYBE YOU HAVEN'T SEE THE IDIOTIC ALL CAPS SHOUTING MENUS. 

  Seems like there is another shortage of pink paper in Redmond.  HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT DESTROYING VISUAL STUDIO's UI?

• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

  Jun 01, 2012 at 7:45 AM

  Where are the ISO's on the download page?

• Hot Apps: Monster Island, DODONPACHI MAXIMUM, Crazy Kitties, Keymon Goes Fishing, Starbucks Finder

  Apr 25, 2012 at 6:07 AM

  Microsoft Store opening in Austin TX tomorrow.  Sure wish they would have had a Cyan Lumia 800.

• Windows Phone & HTML5

  Apr 04, 2012 at 6:11 AM

  Could you please try to put something in the download filename that relates to the title?  It's hard to remember later that cristianhelle is the WP7-HTML5 video...

  Thanks.

• Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview

  Mar 15, 2012 at 5:30 AM

  Why is private browsing effectively hidden? 

  Won't people running on a real computer want to save off a graphic? 

  Where is tabbed mode? 

   

• What Windows 8 Consumer Preview Means for Your Business

  Mar 06, 2012 at 3:02 PM

  Need to restore the Start Menu for the desktop UI immediately.  Issue a patch to restore it if you want any business users at all.

  Also, the mouse/keyboard experience with all the hidden UI is extremely poor.  We understand the need to be touch first, but Consumer Preview treats mouse/keyboard users as persona non grata.

   

• Ping 133: Googlighting, Lumia Bundle, Facebook & Bing, Visual Studio 11 Beta

  Feb 29, 2012 at 7:02 AM

  Nokia Lumia Bundle without the cyan model???  Way overpriced? 

  Looks like Microsoft and Nokia just want to prove they can't sell.

  Microsoft needs to offer all variations of the correctly sized Lumia 800 (instead of the massive Lumia 900 that just helps AT&T protect it's right-sized iPhone market) and at a reasonable price.

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