Today I was planning on upgrading my work development machine to win 7, I already installed it at home and I like it much better than Vista.

So I have Vista x64 at work, the Dutch version. I have no idea why I ever chose the Dutch version for this machine but I did it and there is no turning back now. I made a mistake and I will have to suffer for it.

Because I decided to install the English version, which makes for easier googling if you ever get an error, Win7 decided ...

Every time you buy a new computer you of course need to install a bunch of software. In my case this would be stuff mostly from MSDN

Visual Studio 2008 + Service pack 1

SQL Server 2008 + Service pack 1

Expression Studio 2

Win XP SP 3 (to run on a virtual machine)

Windows 7 RC (to run on a virtual machine)

Visual Studio 2010 (to run inside the Win 7 virtual machine)

Office 2007 Ultimate

The nice thing about Virtual machines is that you can mount an ISO right inside the machine, this way you don't have to burn a CD or install a ISO...

I have the FS T1010 for 3 weeks now so this is just a first impression.

First a little about the configuration, which I think is quite impressive considering its size.

It has an Intel P8400 processor on board with 3 GB of Ram and a 300GB HD

It gets a pretty good score from the windows experience index, namely 3.8. And this is due to the gaming graphics score. Since this is not a machine you will buy for gaming, it is a non-issue.

Component	Details	Subscore
Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo C...

So I just got a brand new shiny QuadCore PC with 6GB of RAM and Vista on it. I decided to setup ReadyBoost since I have a couple of USB dongles laying around.

How does ReadyBoost work? Here is what Wikipedia has to say

Using ReadyBoost-capable flash memory (NAND memory devices) for caching allows Windows Vista to service random disk reads with performance that is typically 80-100 times faster than random reads from traditional hard drives. This caching applies to all disk content, not just the page file or sy...