So have you been using Vista for a while now and are sick of all those security dialog warnings from UAC. Well you can change that and disable warnings on things you know you executed hence reducing the habbit of auto-clicking continue. Mauricio posts onhow to do this. Nice……
read more...I’ve decided to give Windows Live Search a good try and see if it will make a good subsitute to Google for me. There are already 2 things I dong like about the Windows Live Search interface, but I will give it a fair chance to just test how well it performs in returning useful results for what I’m looking for. The way I’ll judge this is by seeing if I can find everything I am looking for without having to go look in google. This is not a formal experiment but just an attempt for me…
read more...This is just evil. Thanks Mauricio for the heads up. Update:Here’sBrian Jones’ – MS programmanager in office –post about this.…
read more...I’ve previously blogged about having some trouble getting ASP.NET and IIS working on Windows Vista. I dont know if I was doing something wrong when trying to set them up, but I had trouble with Vista Builds 5308 and 5342. On the first I couldnt even get IIS to install and on the second I managed to get IIS setup but had problems with building and running ASP.NET 2 applications. Well now I’ve got Windows Vista Beta 2 installed on my machine and I installed VS, WinFX Beta2..etc yesterday and it all finally works… Time…
read more...Following on from my previous post about the new changes in Microsoft Office and Windows Vista. The post by Leonie proves my point. When you are soo used to something it is hard to change to something new. So the question is, will this major change push people away from Windows? While it provided a good incentive for Nic and Leonie to consider a MacBook. I think the answer is still ‘No’. For the normal user it is no becauseagain the problem of learning something different. Now for Leonie maybe she already uses Mac so the transition will not…
read more...I dont know if this is just me. But I ran into something yesterday that got me thinkinig. Now the new Windows Vista and Office systems have changed massively since their previous versions and part of that change is for the purpose of improving usability. Now raises a few questions. I am sure that all of you will agree that the changes in the new versions are significant (I’m only talking about UIstuff here) such as the introduction of the Office Ribbon and the getting rid of the menus thing. I think this pauses a major problem for…
read more...If you are not sure whether or not your pc hardware can utilize the full potential of Vista. The hardware requirements have been specified here.When I first installed Vista a couple of months ago I was missing the AERO graphics as my Video Card did not support WDDM … but I couldn’t resist not having it showing so I went and bought a new graphics card. Hopefully not many people will need to do that!…
read more...Tim posted about Live.com saying why he ‘doesn’t’ like it here. Here’s my take on the topic. While Tim sees ‘no compelling reason’ to use it. I think I’ve found a few… I do agree with Sean that it live.com makes a great homepage; while this depends on how you customise it here is why it works great for me. Live.com allowed me to group a lot of my online usage in one place; which saves space and memory! Here’s how: Every morning here are some of the things I tend to do…
read more...It’s been a while since I last posted but here I am posting again. I’ve deliberately delayed posting till I get something done (which I still cant do) but now decided to post anyway. I’ve been using Windows Vista now since build 5308 was out and as I mentioned in some of my previous posts I am generally very happy with my experiences. Recently I’ve tried to setup WinFX, VS 2005 …etc on Vista and here is where I am having some very annoying issues. I can get WinFX working just fine on Vista but ASP.…
read more...Following this Apple have just released a piece of software that allows people to run XP on their intel based machines. All future versions of the Mac OS will include this software. More details here…
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