40 comments so far...

• Madcat Said on August 18th, 2009 at 11:22 am:
  

  Watermark removal tool 2008R2

• Madcat Said on August 18th, 2009 at 11:10 pm:
  

  http://www.mediafire.com/?yzzddrxywyj
  this RemoveWatermark_20081210 is one that works.. for server 2008r2
  might wanna put this file on another server..

  greetz/

• Madcat Said on August 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am:
  

  get XPM (virtual xp mode) for Windows 7 working on 2008R2
  the WindowsXPMode exe executes well and olso the installation runs well
  the only problem is the Windows6.1-KB958559-x64_Virtualpc_update.msu file that says the operation system is not supported..

• Lysergic Said on August 30th, 2009 at 7:22 am:
  

  Anyone know if Homegroup is possible? Apparently it was in the beta’s but did not work.

• Jasonpax Said on September 3rd, 2009 at 7:56 pm:
  

  The thing missing to make homegroups work is the 2 homegroup services. If someone can figure out how to install those, you should be golden.

• Manual Said on September 8th, 2009 at 12:28 am:
  

  request manual “pdf”

• AsciiWolf Said on September 12th, 2009 at 9:38 am:
  

  Please add these features to the Wish List:
  Mobility Center, Media Center and Experience Index (WinSAT).
  Thanks…

• AsciiWolf Said on September 12th, 2009 at 10:00 am:
  

  Also add “Connect to a Network Projector” feature to the list, please…
  Thanks.

• Antony Said on September 18th, 2009 at 6:56 pm:
  

  Windows Media Center – It’s an No 1 Application!

• Kay_u Said on September 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pm:
  

  Analog TV Tuner support (Leadtek tv 2000 expert)

• Eric_T Said on September 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm:
  

  what about media streaming? It’s the feature that allows other windows 7 computers to access and play music and videos from another windows 7 computer.

• Nita Said on October 10th, 2009 at 5:43 pm:
  

  Request: Services tweaking

• Dan Said on October 12th, 2009 at 7:25 pm:
  

  what about getting media center on win2008serverr2? Is this possible?

• Gustavo Said on October 15th, 2009 at 4:26 pm:
  

  To add in the Wish List:
  Windows Easy Transfer

  Thanks

• AsciiWolf Said on November 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pm:
  

  Hi Arris,
  Please add “Home Group” to the Wish List.
  Thanks…

• Jia Said on November 11th, 2009 at 6:41 pm:
  

  Need Windows Mobility Center badly…

• James Said on November 15th, 2009 at 8:55 am:
  

  Please add Windows DVD Maker to the wish-list. Thank you.

• hooken Said on November 26th, 2009 at 8:17 pm:
  

  what about “the startup sound can’t really work”?

• Ethan Said on December 10th, 2009 at 9:12 am:
  

  The rest of the Aero features and looks from win 7. Like windows+space making all programs transparent, etc.

  Arris: That’s already a feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 after you installed the Desktop Experience feature and enable Aero. See this page for more information.

• Ed Said on December 15th, 2009 at 4:41 am:
  

  how about Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder in 2008 R2. We can found it on windows 7.

• winsen Said on December 26th, 2009 at 12:54 pm:
  

  Request: Calibrate display
  how about load my ICC Profiles in startup?

• joelpt Said on January 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 am:
  

  Dittoing winsen’s request, more specifically Windows 7′s Display Color Calibration tool ( e.g. http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/07/windows-7-calibrate-your-display )

• Alex Said on February 16th, 2010 at 12:23 am:
  

  Please add Speech Recognition to the list.
  (Win7 has it. Seems to work well. )

• Leon Said on February 24th, 2010 at 3:33 pm:
  

  What the advantages of using Win2008r2 instead Windows 7 ?

  Performance and Benchmarks

• booker Said on March 14th, 2010 at 2:37 am:
  

  Please add “System Restore” to the wish list.

• Madcat Said on April 17th, 2010 at 5:51 pm:
  

  make server 2008 work with hauppauge tv cards,
  especialy my win-TV-HVR 1900

• dnationsr Said on April 30th, 2010 at 8:22 pm:
  

  would like to install nero 9 or 10 on my work station

• Maximiliano Said on May 22nd, 2010 at 2:14 am:
  

  Does Anyone could activate the Esata conector? Please add to wish list…

  Arris: You probably need to install some drivers. See this page how to do this.

• Skeltic Said on May 24th, 2010 at 2:29 am:
  

  va? vad menar du med esata connector? Jag använder esata kontakter?

• Skeltic Said on May 24th, 2010 at 2:30 am:
  

  HAHA maybe i will english instead..
  what? What do you mean with a sata connect? I use esata to external drive white a sata connector on..

• Colin Said on June 2nd, 2010 at 11:53 am:
  

  Great site, thanks for all the help so far.

  One BIG one that would be useful for many laptops in Win Server 2008 R2 is Sensor support….

  Specifically, my laptop (HP Envy 15) uses an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust backlight based on conditions. Sensor support is included with Win7, but not Server 2008 R2.

• Maximiliano Said on June 13th, 2010 at 4:09 pm:
  

  Skeltic, i have a External SATA cable in a SATA slot, but it doesn’t have the option of safety remove. Is there any External SATA drivers for 2008R2 avalible? Thanks.

• Jaswant Singh Rana Said on June 29th, 2010 at 6:53 am:
  

  It would be great if Windows Security Essential can be installed easily without requiring download of Windows SDK.

  - Jaswant

• Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2? - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net Said on November 12th, 2010 at 5:32 am:
  

  [...] that will help ya. Yes there are issues as you can find both talked about in that thread and here http://www.win2008r2workstation.com/win2008r2/wish-list There are also various other places that talk about it, but overall I have read that converting it [...]

• Jave Said on May 26th, 2011 at 3:50 pm:
  

  maybe an x86 version?

  Arris: Hacking together an x86 version of Windows Server 2008 R2 isn’t a good idea I think. In that case you could better take a look at Windows Server 2008 R1 or Windows Embedded which is highly customizable. You can find a topic about Windows Embedded here.

• Sheldon Said on July 22nd, 2011 at 6:27 pm:
  

  WHS 2011′s media player 12 has the streaming menu options missing in other versions of server2008r2, but the link online id function doesn’t work, even though windows live installer updated the live id piece. the link to perform this task doesn’t do anything. Anyone have a workaround?

• Bayilo Said on August 18th, 2011 at 6:50 pm:
  

  Set up Windows Server 2008 R2 as if it was Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 (for example make any network computer running with Windows 7 to discover the public “Record TV” folder on Windows Server 2008 R2 as the default folder for storing TV recordings from any network connected Windows 7 computer).

• David Said on November 23rd, 2011 at 2:58 pm:
  

  Windows Search feature…

  These are the steps to add and enable the Windows Search Service in Windows Server 2008:

  1) Start Server Manager

  2) Click on Roles in the left navigation pane

  3) Select Add Role in the Roles Summary pane to the right

  4) Select the File Services role and click Next

  5) Select the Windows Search role service

  Finish the wizard and now you should have the Windows Search service up and running.

• Ghoven Said on April 29th, 2012 at 6:34 pm:
  

  Black (Metallic) Theme For Windows Server 2008 R2.

  I think it would be nice

• Dan Said on May 10th, 2013 at 7:11 pm:
  

  With WHS 2011 selling for $50, I would like to see a section for that operating system.

  I bought it for a budget gaming PC because I dislike giving MS any money at all and it seems to be the cheapest 64 bit option (and with service until 2016 or something).

  I’ve heard it is based on 2008 so I’m hoping I will have as much luck with it as you have but I haven’t seen anything that proves or disproves that WHS2011 can be used as a desktop/gaming OS.

  I am not planning to use any of the “home server” features of the OS, beside an SSD my storage is going to be offloaded to a NAS, no email servers, no web servers, just games and not much else.