One of the new slick features of Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the ability to handle VHD’s. You can use them for a number of different tasks including archiving files and folders through to booting up another operating system. While Windows 7 supports VHD’s, they aren’t as easy to work with as uou have to use Disk Management via the administration tools to mount and unmount VHD’s. This can become rather painful if you are wanting to work with many of them and do this often. There is a neat little tool called VHD Attach which speeds up this process, allowing you to...

  Since the release of Microsoft Windows 7, many users have been asking if ArcGIS Explorer 900 is supported on the latest and greatest operating system. Late last week the system requirements for ArcGIS Explorer 900 was updated to support Windows 7. The latest list of supported operating systems is as follows:   The updated system requirements for ArcGIS Explorer 900 can be found here: http://wikis.esri.com/wiki/…  Also remember that you can check if your machine can run ArcGIS Explorer 900 by running an automated tool. Information on this can be found here:...

This is something interesting I came across this evening. I decided to remove ArcGIS 9.3.1 from my laptop as I was going to install ArcGIS 9.4. This was the first time I was uninstalling ArcGIS 9.3.1 from Windows 7 so I wondered if there were going to be any problems. Interestingly enough, as I was following through the uninstall wizard I came across an prompt.   After the uninstall had validated, it throw a file in use prompt. At the time, I thought that I maybe had previous setup that hadn’t completed properly so I decided to reboot. After a reboot I got the same message. I decided to...

Earlier this week I decided install ArcGIS 9.3.1 on my HP Mini 5101 Netbook. My netbook is running Microsoft Windows 7 and I have to say the performance has been awesome so far. Things were working very well and yesterday afternoon I installed ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. I can just imagine what you are thinking. Why am I installing ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 on a netbook? Well I am off to Redlands today and I didn’t want to lug around my powerful laptop. I needed something small that works. Funnily enough, ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 runs really well on this netbook. Now that I had ArcGIS 9.3.1 and...

With Microsoft Windows 7 set to be launched on October 22nd, many users have been asking about ArcGIS support. Well some great news today is that ArcGIS 9.3.1 is now supported on Windows 7. We are pleased to announce that the following ESRI products and versions are now supported on the Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System: ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 and 9.3.1 ArcReader 9.3 and 9.3.1 ArcINFO Workstation 9.3 and 9.3.1 ArcGIS Engine 9.3 and 9.3.1 I have been using Windows 7 since the beta release, then onto release candidate and now final and I have yet to find any showstoppers when running...