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Previously, when doing an RDP-in-RDP session, the yellow RDP bar or tab sits one on top of the other, making it hard to minimize one screen instead of the other. However, new functionality in Windows 7/ 2008 R2 makes it possible to drag these tabs to any side of the screen, making it easy to see one tab on top of the other. Get the details in this article by MVP Daniel Petri.

Windows Server 2008 R2 brings big improvements in the virtualization area. Learn about Hot-Add VM Storage, Enhanced Processor Support, Enhanced Networking Support, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), Live Migration and more...

Accelerators are a new feature of Internet Explorer 8 that speed up the web browsing experience by providing quick access to functions like mapping, emailing, etc. that would normally require a few extra steps to reach. Learn all about them in this article by Jason Zandri.

In this latest article in his series on vSphere4 Tom Finnis explains one of the less publicised new features in ESXi4 - VMDirectPath; which allows host PCI & PCIe devices to be passed through to the virtual machine.

This article looks at the Windows 7 Start Menu, some of the changes in the basic functions of it and how you can perform some customizations for personalization and ease of use.

Internet Explorer's new InPrivate Browsing feature allows you to surf the web using IE8 without effectively leaving a track to where you've been and what your activities were. In this article, Jason Zandri walks through the security and privacy features of this new functionality.

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 are a package of add-ons that allow administration of computers running Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 from a remote computer that is running Windows 7.

ObserveIT Xpress is free software, providing full video playback of all on-screen user activities during remote access software sessions. In this webinar, Daniel Petri and Douglas Brown from DABCC will demonstrate ObserveIT's Free RDP & Citrix user session recording software.

With time, computers gather an increasing number of unused drivers that not only take space on your hard disk, but being still installed, might cause problems if they are somehow enabled. In this article by MVP Daniel Petri, learn how to completely remove these old, unused device drivers from your machine.

If you've received a Hyper-V error on export indicating "failed to create export directory with the name...", learn how to resolve it with this quick tip from MVP Daniel Petri.