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Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:39 AM

KB935796 Vista SP1 and Things That You Should Expect To Stop Working And 1 I Would Have Never Guessed

KB935796 titled "Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer". I took a look because I run AVG anti-virus and wanted to make sure I wasn't on the list of
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:15 AM

Vista SP1 - You may now see it in your auto updates.

I had speculated in an earlier post that Microsoft would release SP1 to the broader public earlier than the mid-March that they had been indicating. Guess what. They have done just. Only not in the way I had anticipated. Instead they did it in a way that
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:20 AM

Vista SP1 and My Notebook as a Dog

I've been wondering why my notebook has been running like a dog lately. It was up to some of its old tricks. The trick that involved opening windows explorer when you have mapped drives and even on the local drives it just staring at you with a blank
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Monday, June 04, 2007 4:17 PM

Welcome Vista Avalon!

I was heads down today working on some SharePoint stuff and of course found my way to Bil Simser's blog to gather some info. I hadn't read it in a few weeks. Apparently, I missed his anouncement about Vista Avalon .
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:49 AM

IE 7 (64 bit) on Vista x64 Doesn't Always Behave with MOSS - It Seems

I have run into specific instances over the last two days in which the 64 bit Internet Explorer 7.0 running under 64 bit Vista does not play well with MOSS 2007. I have not yet checked the security settings to see if they differ by default on IE 7 x64
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:19 PM

My Sidebar is a Hog- especially the RSS Reader

The title says it all. I really am beginning to detest the number of times that the Sidebar and most specifically the RSS Reader decides to simply consume huge amounts of processor time. STOP IT!
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:27 PM

BitLocker without TPM

I have been frustrated lately. By many things, but one of the things I can discuss is that my nice Core 2 Duo Tablet does not have a TPM chip and thus I thought I could not use BitLocker. Then it hit me... why don't I Google (sorry Ballmer- but that's
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:53 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista - Released - so much for my theory

The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista has been released for download. So much for my theory on the countdown for Defy all Challenges
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:18 PM

Does anyone else loose their Sidebar when selecting show desktop?

When I select show desktop from the quick launch toolbar my Sidebar and all the sidebar gadgets, whether on the dekstop or within the sidebar itself, disappear. I have to right click in my notification area on the Sidebar icon and choose open or bring
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:29 AM

Note to Self-- nLite and vLite - Windows and Vista configuration tool

Note to self. Blog this http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html Link to vLite - Windows Vista configuration tool
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:56 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista release notes

Take a look at the Release Notes for SP1 to Visual Studio 2005 . Published today. Looks like I should soon find the actual release version of the service pack. Woohoo. Technorati tags: VSTS , TFS , Vista
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:42 PM

My Readyboost Performance run results

I have a Toshiba R25-S3513 Convertable Tablet. It has 3 GB of RAM with a maximum of 4 that it can support. It's a Core 2 Duo (64bit) running Vista x86. I had the 4GB Patriot XT XPorter High Speed USB Flash . The flash drive is 233x I think and about 32MB/s.
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Friday, December 29, 2006 11:19 AM

Goodbye Dual Boot

Since the RTM of Vista I have had my development tablet dual booting with XP Pro SP2. Toshiba recently delivered all the final drivers and software that I was missing for Vista to make things function like the function keys, automatic screen rotation,
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