Windows Embedded Standard (Standard 7, Standard 2009, XPe...)
Know Thy Tick
When I read something like “the clock interval… for most x86 multiprocessors is about 15...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/20/2006
Multiple Versions of the Same Driver
What happens if you want to create two components for different versions of the same driver? How do...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/16/2006
Can you be too thin?
I found a pretty good article on Federal Computer Week by Wayne Rash called "Can you be too thin?"....
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/13/2006
How do Windows NT System Calls REALLY work?
Found a terrific article published by John Gulbrandsen called "How do Windows NT System Calls REALLY...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/11/2006
Magesh and his new XPe blog
While trolling through the newsgroups looking for interesting threads and feedback from customers, I...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/10/2006
Register for MEDC 2006!
The Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference is going to be held this year at the Venetian Hotel in...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/09/2006
MSDN Chat Reminder
This is just a reminder that there is a Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 chat tomorrow morning,...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/07/2006
Ultimate User Input Device?
The Optimus mini 3-key auxiliary keyboard has to be the ultimate user input device. Well, maybe...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/04/2006
Preventing 'Last Access' Chatter
The NTFS file system comes with some way cool features. Unfortunately, not all of these features are...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 02/01/2006
Trying to stop FBA for whatever reason?
Trying to stop FBA for whatever reason? While trying to debug something that was failing during FBA...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 01/31/2006
Now that's one small power supply!
I noticed on Sunday that a company called mini-box is now selling a product called "picoPSU-120"....
Author: Embedded Team Date: 01/09/2006
Using SQL 2005 Express with the XP Embedded Database
SQL 2005 presents many advancements in the SQL Database product line and represents several new...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 01/05/2006
BillG keynote webcast tonight
Tonight in Las Vegas, BillG will deliver the opening keynote for CES 2006, the world’s largest...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 01/04/2006
Back home again in the Mobile Embedded Division
The XPe team has moved back to the Mobile Embedded Division (MED) last week. I'm really excited and...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/28/2005
Using BOOTPREP
While preparing your target partition for an Embedded runtime image, you'll occasionally come across...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/26/2005
Using DISKPART to Improve Deployment Efficiency
DISKPART is a small, scriptable command-line utility that ships with Windows XP Professional, which...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/23/2005
MED Convention 2006 - Call For Papers
The organizers for the Mobile and Embedded DevCon 2006 have announced the Call for Papers. Link to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/19/2005
Ascender Announces Closed Captioning TV Fonts
Found the story below in today's Microsoft Windows Embedded InfoBlast newsletter. If you'd like to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/13/2005
Obtaining product support for Windows XP Embedded
Although the Test team tries to answer questions that people e-mail us it is sometimes more...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/08/2005
Half Life2 on XPe!!
This is cool - Taito is shipping an arcade version of the PC game Half Life 2 running on XPe. HL2 is...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 12/01/2005
.NET Framework version 2.0 installer dependencies
The .NET Framework version 2.0 represents a new level of functionality, stability, and...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/23/2005
Nick's Bio
Updated - 8/18/09 My experience with computers started when my Uncle showed me his Amiga god knows...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/23/2005
M-Systems uDOC update
I found this M-Systems press release via ecnAsiaMag.com today. M-Systems has expanded its support of...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/22/2005
Sneak Peek -Windows Media Player 10 is available for XPe!
For those who are "chomping at the bit", here is a sneak peek at the componentized version of...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/21/2005
October Security Updates are (finally) available!
For those of you who have given up looking at the Download site for the XP Embedded security updates...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/17/2005
Working with MSDE
A lot of the blog posts and workarounds that are discussed refer to using Enterprise Manager to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/11/2005
Why do I get an error when I enter my PID in Target Designer?
There are some customers using SP1 who have finished up their testing and are now ready to build and...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 11/03/2005
Scripting Remote Boot settings
Remote Boot Manager on your Remote Boot Server is normally used for configuring how your XPe client...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/27/2005
Where to find EWF Information
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded Although there seems to be swarms of...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/26/2005
Twice as Nice
This document was written by one of my testing colleagues, Randy Stagers, who works on XP Embedded...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/21/2005
Sean's SLDDiff tool
Sean Liming has done it again, he's created a tool to help embedded developers. This one is called...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/16/2005
DUAScriptGen and more...
Aaron Stebner has created a sticky article you can always go to now for the latest info on the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/12/2005
Reminder: XP Embedded SP2 Chat tomorrow
This is just a reminder that there will be another XPe SP2 chat session tomorrow from 10-11am...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/11/2005
New version of SMS is available
The SMS (Systems Management Server) team has released their latest SMS version (SMS 2003 SP1...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/06/2005
May I present...
The MVP Summit concluded here on Microsoft campus on Saturday afternoon. I finished giving my first...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 10/05/2005
Meet the XPe MVPs
The 2005 Global MVP Summit is in full swing today and continues tomorrow. I've been meeting with the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/30/2005
Social September
September seems to be the social month of the year. Last Friday Microsoft celebrated their 30th...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/29/2005
You need help? Here it is!
Below is a list of the most commonly provided links to resources on the net to help yourself with XP...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/26/2005
Clone or copy?
I found myself getting getting caught out last week while trying to clone a component in Component...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/16/2005
BillG interview on Channel9
Scoble scores a BillG interview on Channel9. Check it out. My favorite question was "Why are you...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/09/2005
PowerPoint Viewer component
Requests come in periodically to componentize MS Office. Honestly, on a lark I worked on trying to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/08/2005
The buzz on hives
As so many of my blog posts tend to do this one will also deal with ways to tweak your image without...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/07/2005
Componentizing Apps (Winamp project)
Over the Spring of '05, I posted a series of blog posts on the end to end process to componentize...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/02/2005
Who depends on me?
The component help in XPe SP2 was greatly improved, and now enables customers to find things such as...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/02/2005
August Security Updates for Embedded
The following security updates for XP Embedded have been released and can be downloaded from here or...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 09/01/2005
June Security Updates Re-Released
The latest batch of security updates posted last week on the download page are re-releases of the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/29/2005
Welcome to the family Bell Micro
Need a Windows Embedded distributor? "Sure" you say, we've got a nice mix of them, strategically...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/27/2005
"Star" power
A while ago I posted a blog article about finding components in Target Designer that have...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/23/2005
MySQL componentized
Sean Liming has componentized another third party app. This time MySQL, the SLD package is available...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/19/2005