core2quad Q6600 doesn't allow Hyper-V in Windows 8 (missing slat)

Yes, however I thought by having the vhd I would be able to visualize it.

yeah...the Physical PC is dead.

WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."

Thanks!

I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.

@alexntg said:

You could use VMware converter to make VMDKs of it, then bring it into VirtualBox that way.

VMware vCenter Converter?

I have an old Vista PC that had my MS Accounting Program I was using on it. I converted the drive to vhd using Disk2vhd and then tried to setup VirtualBox to open it as a virtual machine.

I get the "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del" to restart. I have followed the information on this website, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonjor/archive/2011/10/04/vm-does-not-boot-following-p2v-or-disk2vhd.aspx and no luck.

I had read about the new update and that the Start Screen would have the Power and Search icons by the username. So I decided to reboot to complete my update. After I logged in, I waited almost 5 minutes staring at 2 black screens before hitting Ctrl Alt Del and I got the screen I expected and I chose task manager. The disc was at 100% and stayed that way for about another 2 minutes before everything was back to normal, well except I was at the desktop and not the Start Screen (as I expected from prior reading)

I unchecked bypassing the Start Screen in Navigation properties and since I have two monitors, I checked show Start on display I am using.!

Image below was created by using Windows Key and PrintScreen, had forgotten about that since I usually use the Snipping Tool. Anyway, there is the icons next to the image of the user reflecting that you are using W8.1 Update 1

@alexntg said:

@technobabble said:

@alexntg said:

@technobabble said:

I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.

I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.

That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.

So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?

The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.

Thanks @alexntg

I'm thinking it might have been the 64bit version of 7 that caused the issues.

@scottalanmiller said:

MS Accounting! We loved that. We were early adopters. We were the first company to use that with ADP. Microsoft worked directly with us a lot as we were on the bleeding edge with that.

I loved it too. I have to restore my data to a new pc. I have to dig up my disk and I don't know which OS I can put it on. I remember W7 64bit balked but was able to get it installed on a Vista 32bit.

@scottalanmiller said:

@technobabble said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@technobabble said:

Has anyone used Decrap?

Hopefully not. Much better to do a clean image.

I do like that option when the client is on-board, however very small businesses (mom & pops) usually decline because of time and cost.

Saving money is never something that little shops like. That's why they stay little

Yep.

One of my clients had the original Surface pro and loved it. As a lawyer he found the small size but with full POWER to be exactly what he was looking for.

Personally I want something like the Asus Transformer Book Duet (https://www.asus.com/us/News/hnzqzGZ8TfSnrQTo) to replace my aging Asus Transformer Tf101. Larger screen, and dual OS makes it sound as if it could be the best of both worlds.

@Minion-Queen said:

No it doesn't on it's own or with the dock. You can use USB to VGA or HDMI adaptors however.

Noooo!

@NetworkNerd said:

@technobabble said:

@NetworkNerd said:

I spoke with a representative from AVG about this today and realized they can offer mail security, web content filtering, e-mail archiving, anti-virus, and even remote access through their CloudCare offering. For those that use it, do you feel the feature set is good compared to other products? Any information would be helpful.

Our anti-virus subscription will be up at the end of this year, we use LogMeIn for remote management, we do not have web content filtering at every site but could benefit from it, and we use Mimecast for spam filtering and e-mail archiving (subscription up in June). There may be a chance to save some money here if their product is good.

I am using it for a client's 3 servers and 2 desktops av protections. I am looking at the other options they offer.

Is the AV client pretty light weight?

For the desktops, my seat of the pants observation, yes. And of course the Servers I put it on are high disc usage and no issues (no lag, etc) since I installed the AV 6 - 8 months ago.

@alexntg said:

@technobabble said:

I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.

I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.

That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.

So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?

@scottalanmiller said:

@technobabble said:

Has anyone used Decrap?

Hopefully not. Much better to do a clean image.

I do like that option when the client is on-board, however very small businesses (mom & pops) usually decline because of time and cost.

I have always used the Unread Mail folder added to favorites in my Outlook programs. Since I started Office 365, it would appear that the search folder support is not supported in OWA 2013 (Exchange 2013) according to this website, http://www.msoutlook.info/question/763.

This is part of my issue checking email using OWA as my rules places emails in 2nd - 4th level folder and do not show up. I understand that this is normal behavior on the Desktop app, OWA and of course the Android app. OWA image: .

This was another reason I deleted all my rules and recreated only 2, as you can see Cron is easily seen in the folder list. And if I use OWA on any device including mobile I find it easier to use if I request the desktop app. I am still considering how to run rules that aren't based on multi-level folders, but that will make it a really long list!

So not much of a workaround, but better than nothing.