Why would anyone in their right mind want to build their own Personal Video Recorder (PVR) when something can be picked up from the local electrical superstore for a couple of hundred bucks? And there’s such a great selection to choose from! For me to begin to answer this, let’s examine the stash of equipment …
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Month:July 2017
Virtual PC and Windows 95
Having successfully virtualised Windows 95 using VMware Workstation Player (refer here) and Oracle VirtualBox (and here), my attention then turned to Virtual PC. The latest version of Virtual PC (VPC) runs on Windows 7. Hyper-V replaces it in Windows 10. VPC 2007 and VPC 2004 are previous versions of VPC. Referring to the Table of …
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VMware and Windows 95
This is the second in a multipart series on virtualisation software. In an earlier post, I used VirtualBox to create a Windows 95 virtual machine. In this post, I’ll do the same thing, but use VMware instead of VirtualBox. The first challenge for me was to figure out exactly what constituted VMware virtualisation software. I had …
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Stronger Authentication for Windows 95
In a recent post, I suggested that maybe it was time to let go of Windows 95. After all, newer printers don’t support it, Windows Update (WU) no longer works on it, and it has considerable difficulty accessing network shares in a modern network. In another post, I suggested that, at the cost of weakening …
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VirtualBox and Windows 95
In a previous post, I provided an overview of my experience with installing Windows 95 in a VM. I decided to provide further detail in this post not so much to focus on Windows 95, but as a prelude to investigating how well different virtualisation software handled legacy operating systems. The guest OS I used …
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VirtualBox and Windows 2000
I had great success virtualising Windows Vista and Windows XP. I wanted to see if I could do the same with Windows 2000. Could I achieve the same outcome? Windows 2000 was pretty long in the tooth having been released in 1999 with extended support ending in 2010. Installing Windows 2000 in a VM was …
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Is there still life in Windows 95?
Having got Windows XP and Windows Vista working in VMs, with Windows Update working for both, and with each participating in robust network file and print activity, I was keen to find out how far back I could go back with legacy Windows operating systems before I perceived there were more disadvantages rather than advantages …
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Puzzling share access behaviour
My NAS of choice is based on the FreeNAS OS (versions 9.10.2-U5 & 11.0), but I also own a ReadyNAS NV+ V2 NAS, which is still in service. I use it to house archive material, which is rarely accessed. Printing and file services are one of the early tasks I consider when integrating a new client …
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