Posted on June 14, 2008 by Brian Williams
Technology Wizards, Oregon and SW Washington’s local user group, will be providing a presentation on Windows Vista to local technology professionals, both in-house IT and IT consultants.
This event will include a 1-hour panel discussion with 4 Technology Wizards.
Click here to sign-up for the event deadline is this Monday at 9 a.m.!
Stay tuned to my blog, [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Brian Williams
Just following up on an earlier posting on Dell’s Windows XP offering beyond the Microsoft XP deadline date of June 30, 2008.
When choosing business class systems i.e. Latitude, OptiPlex and Precision you’ll have the following OS options now and beyond the June 30, 2008.
What to expect on delivery;
A new system with the XP Professional OS installed
NO Vista [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008 by Brian Williams
One of the ‘cool’ features with Windows Vista is the sidebar function, even more when you have dual monitors or a nice wide screen monitor.
You have to be careful with 3rd party Vista sidebar gadgets, on a couple of test machines we found a number of 3rd party gadgets to consume enormous amounts of RAM.
In our production [...]
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Posted on June 6, 2008 by Brian Williams
Let’s talk Windows Vista security! On Wednesday June 18th at 9:00AM Pacific Time, Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will again be hosting a live, interactive Springboard Series virtual roundtable with a panel of IT professionals and MVPs-this time on the topic of Windows Vista security.
Join the discussion!
Visit https://ms.istreamp lanet.com/springboard and register for [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Brian Williams
Microsoft released an updated version of the Vista integrated search function, Windows Search 4.0. The new release offers;
Improved performance and reliability
Improved search for PC-to PC searches i.e. Vista to XP, Vista to Windows server 2003 etc.
Improved manageability for IT Pro’s via Group Policy
To read all the details visit http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/06/03/windows-search-4-0-released-to-web.aspx
To get the download;
Download: Windows Search 4.0 [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Brian Williams
Vista comes with the Windows photo gallery as the default image viewer. This works great for opening and viewing those TIF files delivered from the SBS 2003 fax, but what about printing those TIF files? They get squished to a landscape view and there’s now way to modify this.
Luckily we have a full copy of Adobe [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Brian Williams
Today I needed to look at the user guide for a Dell 1815dn, the help file was only available in a .chm file. So I downloaded .zip file extracted the contents then attempted to open the .chm file. The index or table of contents was their but I was getting ‘The address is not valid’ for [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2008 by Brian Williams
A lot of folks out there aren’t happy with Windows Vista and as a result are waiting for Windows 7. These are the same folks who hated XP, swore by Windows 2000, and said they’d wait for Vista. These are the same folks who are watching the Apple commercials denouncing Vista and believing what they see.
Well [...]
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Posted on May 24, 2008 by Brian Williams
Last week a peer was complaining of slow boot up times with Vista, I powered up my laptop and 10 seconds later my system was up.
The secret…use the built-in power management in Vista to close down your laptop. To do this, click on > Start then the Sleep button (see below.)
In Windows XP we used to [...]
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Posted on May 11, 2008 by Brian Williams
About a month ago we were quoted in CRN about our recommendation on Vista. We have been using Vista for a year both on desktops and laptops, initially like all others we weren’t entirely sold on it. Then we added the right hardware, added SP1 and the OS has become nice.
We said in a controlled [...]
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