Windows XP

I had a major problem at work today. I found sharing a StorNext volume via SMB on Windows Server 2008 makes subfolders and shares inaccessible to other Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 clients! However the same folders ARE accessible using Mac OS or Windows XP.

It turns out that SMB 2.0/2.1 is the culprit. If you havn't noticed this problem yet you will when your folders/shares have more than 19 files or subfolders within them.

The only solution is to disable SMB 2.0/2.1 which is easily done. Read more »

Download the latest Antec Fusion driver from here...

http://www.antec.com/download/Fusion_driver_070507.zip
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/index.php?page=support_faqDownload

Once installed navigate to the installation folder.

C:\Program Files\Antec\VFD or under Windows 7 x64 C:\Program Files (x86)\Antec\VFD

Right click on the VFD.exe application and set compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2. Read more »

I had a lot of trouble trying to browse UDF 2.5 when archiving documents off to Blu-ray discs. I was using the UDF 2.5 driver from Toshiba which everyone seemed to be using but if I tried to run an .exe off a BD-R it would instantly BSOD!

I've since found out that the free Nero InCD driver supports UDF 2.5 and also doesn't seem to cause a BSOD everytime I need to run a setup off BD-R!

Download it here...

http://www.nero.com/eng/tools-utilities.html

I recently treated myself to a little Acer Aspire One netbook. Its a great little piece of kit but after I eventually installed Windows XP on there I noticed it crawls! This is because the SSD has terribly slow write speeds. You can get around this by making a few tweaks to XP so I have outlined the steps I took to improve things. This should help with any other netbooks that have a cheap slow SSD drive as well. Good luck! Read more »