18 comments so far...

• Cool Kens Said on August 18th, 2009 at 9:47 am:
  

  Thanks for this great tutorial, first time installing and this guide made it cake!

• Brad Said on August 18th, 2009 at 8:14 pm:
  

  You are AWESOME! Rock on. This covers everything a man could want with this perfect os.

• RemixedCat Said on August 31st, 2009 at 9:26 pm:
  

  use an Xbox360 wired controller and use XPadder and there you go! You can even map it to use it as a mouse. I use it becuase of a wrist injury and it works great!

• MadPrince Said on September 17th, 2009 at 2:48 pm:
  

  U r a God. The one thing left out which would really help, would be to make the Aero animations active, i could manage to enable Aero, but the animations are still missing.

• AndyC Said on September 28th, 2009 at 4:59 pm:
  

  UK Students get Server 2008 R2 for free.. so this is absolutely wonderful

• Ha Said on September 28th, 2009 at 11:20 pm:
  

  US students get it free too.
  So ha!

• aceofspades Said on September 29th, 2009 at 8:26 am:
  

  Yah US students are get windows server 2008 r2 along with a bunch of other software.

  Just go to dreamspark.com

  Fantastic tutorial, really made it easy. I wanted to use windows server as my primary OS because its supposed to be fast and I am a college student who would like to be able to do some development.

  Thanks a bunch.

• Manmohanjit Said on October 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am:
  

  Thanks so much for this whole tutorial. It helped so much. I got my copy from Dream Spark, its fully working like Windows 7 now.

  Thanks again.

• Alex Said on October 17th, 2009 at 10:01 am:
  

  Excellent. Thank you for all your work.

• kin Said on October 20th, 2009 at 5:53 pm:
  

  Thank You very much!!

• Paul Said on October 27th, 2009 at 12:39 am:
  

  A big thanks to the author! This guide is really something like the best thing ever!

• Torsten Said on October 31st, 2009 at 2:15 pm:
  

  Thank you ver much , 90% of it is working!! great work!

• mage7 Said on November 21st, 2009 at 4:03 pm:
  

  Thanks from India,wooot….

  Free windows server 2008 r2, visual studio,expression studio….
  dreamsparkindia.com

• Peter Said on January 10th, 2010 at 4:50 pm:
  

  I installed 64bit version of win2008r2, went through the tutorial (which is awesome, thank you for it), and now I figured out that there are messed-up icons in 32bit applications, for example in “save file” dialogs.
  All icons of files and directories (even on the left side) are icons of “unknown file”.
  It seems that 32bit applications are fully functional, but it is annoying and confusing every time I want to save or open a file with dialog…

  Could you please help me?

• Jake Said on January 13th, 2010 at 10:48 pm:
  

  Thank you so much!

• thomas Said on February 7th, 2010 at 9:47 pm:
  

  you can also integrate the controller into the control panel…

  http://www.imagebam.com/image/89765767191664

  Arris: That’s nice! How did you do that?

• thomas Said on February 13th, 2010 at 1:02 am:
  

  well, it needs some registry settings, obviously.

  note that the CLSID can be anything that does not already exist in the registry. but of course it has to be the same in all 7 places below.
  also, the path maybe must be adjusted.

  someone might test it… and eventually find a better solution.
  let me know, if there are problems

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}]
  @=”USB Game Controller”
  “System.ControlPanel.Category”=”4″

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\DefaultIcon]
  @=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\joy.cpl”

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\Shell]

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\Shell\Open]

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}\Shell\Open\Command]
  @=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\control.exe joy.cpl”

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}]
  @=”USB Game Controller”

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\ControlPanelWOW64\NameSpace\{4299124F-F2C3-41b4-9C73-9236B2AD0E8A}]
  @=”USB Game Controller”

  Arris: Looks convincing! Thanks for your work ; I’ll add it to the installer when I have some time.

• Kelel Said on February 27th, 2010 at 10:51 pm:
  

  Man thanks for this awesome tutorial. I wouldn’t mind hearing how you figured this all out. I know it must have taken quite a bit of your time.

  Again, Thanks!

  Kelel