A Step-By-Step Screencast of Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free

As most of you know that Microsoft offering a Free upgrade to Windows for all Windows 7 users, if they upgrade within 1 years of Windows 10 release.  Here is a step-by-step screencast procedure to be followed for successfully upgrading to Windows 10. Pre-requisites: In order for you to receive Windows 10 upgrade, your system has to meet below minimum requirements Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1): You need to have Service Pack 1 installed for Windows 7.  You can check the Windows version using “Winver” command. Your Windows 7 is NOT of Enterprise edition. You can check the Windows […]

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Increase the number of vCPUs/Cores for Windows Desktop VM in XenDesktop

Scenario: You want to setup a XenDesktop environment hosting VMs with Windows Desktop OS for running graphical rich/intense applications. You are running XenServer and Windows 7.  You want to equip the Windows 7 VMs with 4 or more vCPUs to support the high end graphical loads. Issue: By default Windows desktop operating systems supports only two sockets for processors.  That means, in physical you can only have a maximum of two CPUs and this is applicable for virtual environments as well.  To overcome this limit in physical systems, you can opt for processors with multiple cores inside.  In virtual environments, […]

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