Vista and Windows 2008 SP2 Now Available!
The latest service pack for the unified kernel was released yesterday. For the early adopters, get it here! I’m installing it on my test system, but will be waiting a few weeks to deploy this on my work and home systems. I’d prefer to see what the tech sites and blogosphere have to say about [...]
Three Free Utilities
Everyone carries around a USB drive these days with a variety of utilities, these three have been very useful in the recent past. CPU-Z – A great utility to find out what kind of memory is installed in a system. This is especially useful when a system is a plain box with out a service [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Released
Internet Explorer 8 was released today. I’m sure it’s already been downloaded a billion times already, but you can get it here. My first impressions have been favorable. I’ve been using Slim Browser for quite some time, but it still uses the IE7 engine and the performance has been lackluster as of late. I’ve stuck [...]
Lose the Shutdown Event Tracker
This tip has been around for a while, but I think it’s still worth sharing due to its possibly high annoyance factor. On a production machine, I consider the Shutdown Event Tracker worthwhile, especially in environments with multiple administrators. When in a lab situation or testing environment, this prompt before shutdown gets old quickly. To [...]
Enabling the Administrator account in Vista Home
I just received a batch of five Dell laptops with Vista Home for a lab. One of the requirements was to have low privilege “Student” logins and the usual Administrator account for the instructors. If you’ve dug around in Vista for any amount of time, you probably know by now the Administrator account is disabled [...]
Windows Server 2008 and UAC
I know a lot of people are really annoyed by UAC or User Access Control in Windows Vista. You know, it’s the the flash of the screen and a prompt for you to say it’s okay to install a program or modify your system. I actually don’t mind it on my Vista system, since I only [...]
Emergency Patch Today!
A critical flaw in Internet Explorer (some say Exploder) has been found and patched today. This is a very critical update due to the fact your system can be affected by just visiting a website. Go to Windows Update and patch your system! Share this:
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