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Copy vista installation to larger hard drive

February 25th, 2009

Today I was investigating options in robocopy to move files from one folder to the next while preserving directory timestamps (/DCOPY:T) and came across something that may come in handy for those of you that tend to run out of space on primary hard drive.   It only requires your vista installation CD and no other tools.

http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2006/12/07/100596.aspx

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Out-of-memory exception in Visual Studio

February 24th, 2009

There is a limit in 32-bit windows to only use up to 2GB of RAM. This site lists a hack to fix it both in the boot.ini (XP) and also in Visual Studio, although I haven’t been successful with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE command yet.

http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx

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