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Category Archives: Vista
Vista – clearing out some space
Posted by on May 29, 2009
I have had Vista RTM installed on my current laptop since it was released, I’m always running out of disk space – I just have an .iso and VM hording habit! However I recently upgraded my laptop from a 100Gb disk to a 200Gb one, thinking that should be more than enough (famous last [...]
Vista Mobility Centre
Posted by on July 27, 2008
Ironically, I’d never actually seen this screen before.. Windows Key – X and it pops up the following screen so I can get one place to find the Dell extensions and the MS normal control panel applets in one place that are relevant to “mobility”. Thanks to James O’Neil‘s post on where Microsoft went [...]
Mmm, Should I cancel, or should I cancel?
Posted by on May 30, 2008
You see, it’s all about the choices with Vista
Opening a URL in Internet Explorer when Firefox is your default Web Browser
Posted by on April 3, 2008
I use Firefox for 99% of my Internet activities, however there are still some web sites and applications that won’t work fully (or at all) within Firefox. Normally I use the IETab extension to render particular tabs within Firefox using the IE render engine.. this allows all my browsing to stay within one tabbed [...]
Installed Windows Vista SP1 and Have No Sound?
Posted by on April 2, 2008
There are probably a number of reasons for this, but I’ve come across a number of people recently that have installed Vista Service Pack 1 from the Microsoft Web site (note: not via Windows Update) following articles on the web about its availability (like mine) and have since had problems with sound or other [...]
More Useful Things You Can Do With ImageX
Posted by on February 12, 2008
James O’Neil has a good post here – an example of how he used ImageX to quickly build and maintain his own vista system image with his typical apps. Also handy for reference as he shows how to split very large images across multiple CDs using the /split switch.
Make Your own Offline Windows Update CD/DVD
Posted by on February 12, 2008
What a handy tool; if you download the app you can select which Microsoft OS/Applications you need patches for and it will download them all via the Windows online catalog to a source directory and then compile a script to auto install them all – it will even generate a .ISO file and handle dependencies [...]
Split Screen Browsing with Firefox
Posted by on February 7, 2008
My home office setup has a 20″ widescreen Dell TFT which I use with my laptop an elevated docking station – my laptop has a rather low screen resolution as it’s quite small so this is a great dual monitor setup. The widescreen is handy for keeping a web browser open for referring to [...]
