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Windows Live applications should install without having to use tweaked MSI’s. (I only installed Live Messenger, but it gave no warnings or errors). IIS 7.5 configured with FastCGI and PHP without any hickups.

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When installing Hyper-V you lose the ability to put your laptop in sleep mode. This is not cool at all, since throwing down the lid and just tugging it on home and then flipping it up to continue is one of the things we love about notebooks.

Fortunately there’s a slight workaround for this. You can’t start hyper-v and do sleep mode, but you can boot up without hyper-v started (hvboot service). If you also set the Hyper-V services listed to manual, you can use sleep mode as long as you don’t need to start the hyper-v services. this can be nice if you only do hyper-v for demos or testing, and not daily use. if hyper-v is essential, you’re stuck without sleep mode.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetserviceshvboot

Set the Start to 0003.

Reboot, and sleep is activated again ( as well as all the power management stuff ).

SQL Server 2008 installs right out of the box but you have to apply service pack 1 afterwards.

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