Windows Vista – Milestones When you look at Vista’s milestones, where do you start? XP, Beta 1? Well I decided to start at the beginning with Windows 1! Vista Roadmap Vista RTM October 2009 Vista SP2 May 2009 Vista SP1 Spring 2008 Vista SP1 Beta 1 September 2007 Vista Editions …
Windows Vista – Control Panel, Network & Internet, Network Map This Network Map information is a subset, or a ‘drill down’ of information shown in the Network Center. Orientation (See in Address Bar Below):Control Panel Networking and Internet Network Map Here is a Network Map showing how a machine called …
Compatibility of 32-bit Programs on 64-bit Vista One nagging worry with installing the 64-bit version of Windows Vista is will it run old 32-bit programs. I would like to reassure you that in 99% of cases the answer is, ‘Yes you can run your much-loved applications on a 64-bit processor’. …
How to Find Vista’s Lost, Hidden, or Deleted Recycle Bin It was probably Mr Nobody who deleted your Vista recycle bin. Rather than worrying about who did it, let us concentrate on how to recover the recycle bin, complete with rubbish! Once we have found the deleted recycle bin, to …
Windows Vista > Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center Vista has several sections with similar names. Here is where I review Microsoft’s new Vista Network Sharing Center. What particularly impresses me is Vista’s Diagnostics Tool. Network and Sharing Center is where you get a bird’s eye view of your …
Custom Search Guy's Review of Computer Tools 1) Belarc Advisor 2) Network Perf Mon 3) Freeping 4) PuTTY 5) Bandwidth Analyzer 6) Secunia 7) Net-SNMP 8) Permission Analyzer 9) DNS Stuff 10) WinDiff's Compare Internet Explorer cannot download / from help The Problem: Vista Problem:When you try and open help …
Ten XP Features that Are Lost, or Deprecated in Vista (Actually I now have over 30 items!) I call them XP features that are lost in Vista. However, Microsoft refer to many of these XP items as ‘deprecated’ in Vista. The term deprecated carries with it the nuance that the old …
Windows Vista Sync Center The point of Vista’s Sync (synchronization) Center is to provide a central location for users to keep their files up-to-date. Where users have multiple devices, they need a mechanism to ensure then when files change on one device, they Synchronize with older versions of the same …
Windows Vista – Backdoor Logon You would not expect it to be easy to create a backdoor logon. Indeed, the technique described on this page does not threaten Vista security, unless someone has a Trojan horse program to prepare the way. Whatever you make of this technique, you have to …
Vista Remote Desktop Connection Problems Troubleshooting remote desktop connection involves examining both the local client, and the distant network host computer. Topics for Windows Remote Desktop Connection Problems Configure the Host Computer – Allow Connections Configuring Remote Desktop Connection on the Client Computer Problems with Remote Desktop Connection in Vista …