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Windows 7 has tons of improvements over Vista its absurd. One of the best things is the taskbar in Windows 7. It’s totally different than what I was expecting to see when I downloaded the bata low these many months ago and started my test run.

If you’ve got an XP machine and are not planning on updating it to Windows 7, check out this little gem that turns your ordinary XP taskbar in to the new Windows 7 "pin" look and feel.

ViGlance is freeware that adds this funcitonality. While the footprint is 10MB, its not too bad considering what its doing. It also adds that nifty thumbnail preview of pinned items and replaces that boring old-school start button to a Windows 7 orb.

Check it out.

While I mostly use a PC at work and a Mac at home, occasionally I use my “other” laptop. That special one who only gets powered on a couple of times a month to do random and various tasks and as the title would suggest, it’s running Windows 7.

So, I have an ESXi 4.0 server here at home that runs a Linux server, a windows 2003 server and other various guest OS flavors. As of ESX 4.0, the client was renamed and updated to vSphere Client instead of vMWare Infrastructure Client. That client piece is the piece that lets you modify your ESX host and all of its virtual machines, datastores, network, etc…

As luck would have it…the client doesn’t work under Windows 7. Blast! You get this error:
Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file.

With Google and a little patience, I got it working again – for the first time.

Here’s a little rundown of how to get VMWare’s latest client product to work under Windows 7:
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