Due to the portability & power of the MacBook Air range, lots of people have been buying them to use solely as Windows laptops too, I will run through how you can set one up as a Windows 7 only machine, whilst I have been doing this on MacBook Airs, I don’t see why you …
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Install Word 2007 using Wineskin
Make sure you have the latest version of X11, you can download this from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki always choose the stable version, download the DMG and double click on the XQuartz.pkg to begin installation, click continue or next on all default options, then reboot the machine Next download Wineskin http://wineskin.doh123.com/tiki-index.php?page=Downloads Install by dragging into /Applications/Utilities Run Wineskin Winery …
Checking DFS referrals in 10.7
So, I had an issue where I could map the DFS share manually in Finder, but it wouldn’t automatically mount on login The machine in question was bound to the Active Directory Domain, the DFS shares were hosted on other servers bound to the Domain Controller, so I opened Terminal & entered this to check …
Operation on file .vmdk failed
If you are running one of the VMWare products, such as VM Fusion on the Mac, then you may have run into an error similar to this “Operation on file “/Virtual Machines.localized/VIRTUALMACHINENAME.vmwarevm/VIRTUALMACHINENAME-s012.vmdk”failed. If the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your network connection and server where this disk resides are functioning …