

I am fully aware that there are probably other means to get similar results, but paying for something isn’t better always, and in any case, a software vendor that sells its products probably has money to run an advertising campaign. Note: I have not listed specific software versions, as these will change with time and it’ll be virtually impossible for me to keep this article always up-to-date.Īnother note: I’ve always tried to only use freeware software (free as in really free, not crappy-type free or “click here to” type of free). Please use the Feedback form for that and I will gladly add your tips to this growing list. I did not list ALL available tweaks or changes, I just wrote about the ones that I use the most and that help me get a better working experience with my own machine.Īs always, reader feedback and recommendations are welcome.

Here you will read about some of the steps I take to customize my own Windows Server 2008 machine running on both of my current laptops (a Dell XPS M1210 with 4GB of RAM and a 200GB fast hard drive, and a newer Dell XPS M1330 with 8GB or RAM and a 2358GB Solid State hard drive). In this article I will walk you through some of the tools and software that I use on my personal computers. I then continued to my “Registry and System Tweaks for Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation”, in which you’ve learned how to manually or programmatically make changes to the system’s registry in order to have more “workstation-like” features. In my previous article titled “ Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation – The Logic” I wrote about the reasons for trying Windows Server 2008 as your workstation, that is instead of using Windows Vista for that task.
