Windows Embedded Standard (Standard 7, Standard 2009, XPe...)
Getting DirectX 9.0 version to report correctly
I was reminded during the XP Embedded customer chat session yesterday that there is an outstanding...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/11/2005
How do I find configurable components in Target Designer?
Faced with 11 000+ components in Target Designer it can be daunting to figure out which of these...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/08/2005
Kaspersky Anti Virus sample component for XPe
Before Computer Associates released their componentized version of eTrust for XPe, I had completed a...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/06/2005
Quirks when remote debugging Embedded images- GDRs vs QFEs
Last week a customer highlighted an issue he saw when he was using remote debugging- he was getting...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 08/03/2005
How .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and July '05 security updates can co-habitate
As part of the XPe SP2 Tech Preview we released the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 and ASP.NET 1.1 SP1...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/29/2005
July '05 Embedded Devwire is out
If you don't receive the monthly newsletter ('devwire') from MSDN for all products related to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/27/2005
Running Windows with No Services
OS News points out a very interesting blog post by Mark Russinovich from one of my favorite...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/26/2005
MBSA 2.0 on Embedded devices
The latest version of Microsoft Base Security Analyzer, MBSA 2.0, has recently been released for...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/25/2005
June 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: 07/21/2005
Have you had your fingerprints taken?
Quite a few customers have been trying to use the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader with their Embedded...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/19/2005
Command line tool to build XPe configs
Less than a month ago we met with some partners in Redmond as part of the Windows Embedded Design...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/18/2005
TDLite (CMIExplorer)
Note:This document is a work in progress, we're posting it in it's present (and workable) state to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/18/2005
What has the CoreOS division been up to?
Mary Jo Foley has some short high level pair of articles resulting from an interview with Rob Short....
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/17/2005
Neoware's Image Manager
Found some interesting XPe related info based on an article on Linux devices (though this is not a...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/13/2005
Try to contact us recently?
Based on a customer comment made in a request to Mike Hall yesterday it appears that mails sent to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/09/2005
SteveB video interview on Ch9
Scoble gets 10 minutes of Steve Ballmer's time for some softball and hardball questions. Check it...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/08/2005
Persisting a Single File in an EWF Runtime
Here’s an interesting topic I came across recently: Say you have a standalone, non-networked machine...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/08/2005
Sean's Firefox component
Sean Liming has componentized Firefox. If you're not familiar with it, Firefox is the open source...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/06/2005
Biometrics in the Retail space
Kiosk Marketplace has an article describing the 'chicken and egg' syndrome facing the retail space...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/04/2005
Componentizing Winamp – PT 6 (the end at last!)
When we last left off in this process to componentize Winamp Lite, we had created a component with...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 07/01/2005
Languages and Locales
One of the common tasks that pops up at the bottom of the screen after running a dependency check in...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/29/2005
File Sharing vs Footprint
Footprint is often a major concern to Embedded customers, and some of the changes made to enhance...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/23/2005
EWF Disk Overlays and Power Loss
Another topic that seems to be making the rounds in the newsgroups lately has to do with how EWF...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/15/2005
The “Exclusive” on the Database
One of the frustrating things when multiple user are connecting to a single SQL Server Embedded...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/13/2005
Back Roads into your Embedded SQL Database
If you have ever had problems with trying to give different permissions to your Embedded database to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/09/2005
El Torito How-To, redux
Having trouble getting your El Torito runtime working? Admittedly, the instructions on MSDN for...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/07/2005
“Policy-ing” IE
To wrap up my theme of setting policy through registry keys I’ve listed a selection of policy...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/06/2005
MEDC content coming soon
Here's some good news from the MEDC 2005 web page: If you attended MEDC 2005 in Las Vegas May 9-12,...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/03/2005
That’s just our policy!
To continue our theme of playing around in the registry from the last two posts of mine here are...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/02/2005
XP on a Pentium 166? Heck yeah.
Ok, maybe the title is misleading. XP-Pro can't be installed on a P-166, but XP Embedded can. For...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 06/01/2005
Send us your XP Embedded bugs!
In one of the internal discussion groups this weekend there's been a lot of talk about how the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/30/2005
Moving the Eventlog files to an unprotected volume
Nandini wrote a tip article long ago with tips on using Ram Overlay. Among other things, she...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/29/2005
3VR and a cool use for XP Embedded
3VR is a company that delivers XPe based devices to resolve a huge problem for the security...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/28/2005
Tweaking settings – Part2
In my previous blog post about tweaking settings I had mentioned that tweaking just the registry key...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/27/2005
XPe Database Arch 101: The Platform
Throughout the components or SLDs (as seen in notepad or Visual Studio) you'll see a reference to...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/26/2005
Microsoft Enters the Retail Revolution!
Did you know the XP Embedded team has internal customers? Take the XPe Solutions team. Yesterday...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/26/2005
Hurray, there's new Geodes to play with!
While checking my feeds from Embedded.com this evening i ran across an announcement from AMD...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/25/2005
Forgot to tweak your settings in Target Designer?
It is common occurrence to build and deploy a runtime, boot to the desktop and realize that you have...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/24/2005
Intel's guide to Optimizing your Retail business
While browsing Inte's retail industry web pages I found this whitepaper (pdf format). It's titled...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/23/2005
Boot perf an issue? Improve your POST time.
One of the MEDC customers I chatted with was close to finalizing on the image they're shipping on a...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/22/2005
When new HW categories crop up
During XPe-SP2 we ran into something we hadn't had to deal with since XPe Gold years before,...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/21/2005
Visibility Zero
[edit: 5/20/05, fixed typo in the sql query] You may find the following is useless information, but...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/20/2005
More on the XP Embedded hives
As mentioned in one of the MEDC sessions (on the subject of FBA I think), when TD is building the...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/19/2005
XPe page on Wikipedia
You familiar with Wikipedia? If so, check out the Windows XP Embedded page, please build on it. In...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/18/2005
There's still time to take the survey...
As mentioned exactly 2 months ago, Windows For Devices has the 2005 Windows Embedded Market Survey...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/17/2005
Winlogon vs. Minlogon
This isn’t meant to be an all inclusive description of the pros and cons of Winlogon vs. Minlogon....
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/16/2005
How to transfer your XPe environment to a new machine
Here’s an oldy but a goody from the newsgroups Doug Gordon surfaced in the newsgroups in September...
Author: Embedded Team Date: 05/15/2005