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Operating System stats for this domain (1-15 October)

October 16th, 2007 at 12:28 pm » Comments (2)

In response to Thomas Lee's post, here are my stats for the first 15 days of October. [tags]Windows, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Codename Longhorn[/tags] more »

Windows Vista SP1 – you have no excuses: what are you waiting for?

August 30th, 2007 at 11:58 am » Comments (0)

I am pleased to see information about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 start to appear. This is good news because I know a lot of system builders, friends and colleagues have ...more »

Vista – Automatic updating

July 11th, 2007 at 10:40 pm » Comments (0)

This morning I was greeted with Vista's "restart" prompt: I was busy, so I dropped the menu down, clicked on 4 hours and went back to work. I had all ...more »

Windows Mail, newsgroup post counter!

June 20th, 2007 at 10:48 pm » Comments (1)

I'm sure we've all "been there" and written some code that does something similar: [tags]Windows Vista,Windows Mail[/tags] more »

Windows Vista – Windows Live Messenger error 81000306

June 9th, 2007 at 7:07 pm » Comments (26)

Continuing the Windows Vista voyage...I came upon a problem with Windows Live Messenger. WLM wouldn't let me sign in, error 81000306 was reported. Asking WLM to "Troubleshoot" the ...more »

Windows Vista – no sound

June 9th, 2007 at 5:46 pm » Comments (2)

When I installed Windows Vista just after Christmas 2006, I noted that I needed revised audio drivers for the Creative SB24 device installed in my Dell 9150. Things have ...more »

Living with Vista

June 4th, 2007 at 1:17 am » Comments (6)

Well, after six months of experimentation, and three Vista installs, I've decided to leave Windows XP behind (safely on a different bootable hard drive) and run with Windows Vista for ...more »

NxtGenUG’s FEST07

May 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 pm » Comments (0)

I managed to gatecrash NxtGenUG's FEST07 developer-oriented conference today. It was a single day event held at Microsoft's Thames Valley Park campus. Despite my best efforts, I arrived ...more »

Vista Blogs

February 23rd, 2007 at 5:21 pm » Comments (1)

Via here, I found Dave, where I found a Vista-oriented feed aggregation: http://www.vistablogs.com UPDATE - it seems that VistaBlogs is no longer what it says it is...it's for sale. Too ...more »

BCS event – Vista in Aberdeen – 05/03/2007

February 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pm » Comments (0)

Speaker: James O'Neill, Microsoft BCS Aberdeen Branch Meeting, 6pm for 6.30pm RGU, St Andrews Street, Aberdeen Free of charge, but please register in advance by email. Further information: http://aberdeen.bcs.org/VistaMeeting.pdf [tags]Community,Vista,James O'Neill,BCS,Aberdeen[/tags] more »

Vista, ReadyBoost – compability chart

January 10th, 2007 at 12:31 am » Comments (0)

ReadyBoost, one of Vista's performance enhancing features, allows us to plug in flash memory (USB drives, SD cards, etc.) The Lexar 512MB 40x Compact Flash card that I purchased for ...more »

Windows Vista – first impressions…

December 30th, 2006 at 2:00 am » Comments (1)

So that's Windows Vista Ultimate installed, I'm dual-booting alongside my existing Windows XP SP2 installation. This install started at 2225 and ran on until 2248 when the second re-boot ...more »

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