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Apr08

Benefits of working with itgroove

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You'll notice we didn't put things like "we're wicked smart" or "we're great haxors". We tried t ...[Read More]
Published: Apr-08-10 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jan13

Privilege Issues with pushing out Trend Micro clients

Louis in our office ran into an issue lately where I was trying to push out Trend clients to workstations and was receiving a security prompt saying the account "does not have administrator privileges" when in actually does. To fix ...[Read More]
Published: Jan-13-10 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Sep15

VMware Authorization Service is not running – after Windows 7 Upgrade

We ran into this in our office and we have a workaround.   Issue:   After upgrading from Vista to Windows 7, our VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) installs no longer functioned properly. When we would go to start our virtual machines, w ...[Read More]
Published: Sep-15-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Sep15

How to Hide Desktop Icons When Creating a Desktop Video

Well, what d'ya know? I'm not sure how far back this feature goes (at least Vista, maybe XP, gosh, maybe even Windows 2000?), but it became a very practical solution for me today.   My Requirement I'm the "a picture is worth a 1000 words ...[Read More]
Published: Sep-15-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Aug05

itgroove :: Our Stance on Windows 7

Customers are asking... So, we've got a statement for customers in Victoria, BC.   Microsoft has formally announced that Windows 7 has been "released to manufacturing" with the general availability date to customers being pegged as Oc ...[Read More]
Published: Aug-05-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jul12

Windows 7 Biometric Fingerprint Login – Well That Was Easy

I was playing with Windows 7 tonight (RC1) and discovered that Windows 7 now has built in Biometric support. And sure enough, my Lenovo T61's Biometric fingerprint reader was recognized. It took me literally 4 minutes to configure it end to end, w ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-12-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jun25

Windows – Applying Updates – 3 of 3, 0% complete … going on forever…

Gents, I ran into this the other day. A server (VM to be exact, RG Exchange) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying "Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete". This went on for an hour (and who knows how ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-25-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jun25

If you need a sexy icon on your desktop…

Ok, it's a web world now, but this old tip still crops up enough to warrant sharing.   If you want to change an icon on your desktop to something sexier, you have a number of choices. You can of course download a new one (thanks Steve, for poin ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-25-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

May20

Windows 7 Compatibility … So Very Happy

I'm so happy. I'm running the Windows 7 Release Candidate solely on my production machine and I must say, besides the odd IE8 crash (which happens on any windows machine it seems, though one would have hoped IE would have matured more with IE8) and ...[Read More]
Published: May-20-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

May04

Another reason to look forward to Windows 7 - Windows XP Mode (XPM)

The Virtualized Windows XP Mode Add-On (Windows XP Mode (XPM) will be included. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132119&intsrc=news_ts_head  Basically, they are including a free licensed c ...[Read More]
Published: May-04-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC