VirtualBox – the far end of the long tail

Tech Notes: VirtualBox and Aero 3D Acceleration

Reading Time: < 1 minute There were a couple of tricks to getting Aero 3D working in my Virtualbox VM: First, I had to make sure the Aero theme was disabled in Windows before enabling 3D graphics in the virtual machine settings. Here’s how: After switching to the Windows Basic theme, shut down. Then, enabled 3D in the VM settings. Started back […]

How to Run Windows 7 from a USB Flash Drive

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m not talking about how to INSTALL Windows from a USB Flash Drive. That’s easy. I’m talking about booting and running Windows 7 in real-time without a hard disk, strictly from a USB Flash Drive. Microsoft doesn’t want you to do this. If they did, it would be much easier. So far, the only way […]