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  • Vista SP2 beta..

    Having run the the latest batch of Windows Vista updates three times only to see the system reverting to previous configuration, it was slowly dawning on me that something was missing. I had received updates for all kinds of things, but no actual SP2 update. In all honesty, I am not a fan of receiving...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Sat, Feb 7 2009
    Filed under: Vista, General, Service Packs

  • Windows 7 – is it ‘King’ material? In my opinion..

    The news is that Windows 7 will skip from Beta 1 to RC very soon. The beta testers have been sending in reports to the MS Beta team as the rate of one every fifteen seconds. So, is Windows 7 working well? It certainly should be by the time that the RC is released. However, ‘working well’ does not always...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Sat, Jan 31 2009
    Filed under: Vista, XP, General, Windows 7

  • This is my Windows 7 Start Menu..

    .. but the list of programs shown is not definitive yet. Some of the entries exist because I am trying them out on behalf of some of my local clients. So far, there are twenty eight icons showing and the icon size is set to ‘small’. They have to be small otherwise I could only have ten program...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Fri, Jan 23 2009
    Filed under: Vista, XP, General, Windows 7

  • nVidia custom resolutions..

    This is a useful feature if you have a monitor like a Dell P990 (Trinitron CRT). The trick is to go into Control Panel > nVidia Control Panel and head down to ‘Manage custom resolutions’ For the Dell P990, 1280 x 960 works well because it is an 18” monitor, not 19”. So you...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Thu, Jan 8 2009
    Filed under: Vista, Utilities, General

  • What is the first thing that you will do when you power up your nice new shiny Vista computer?

    If you are a beginner, you might: look for and play Freecell look for and play Solitaire If you are a fairly accomplished Solitaire player, you might: install Yahoo or Windows Live Messenger so that you can start chatting again get somebody to install the software for your digital camera If you are a...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Mon, Dec 22 2008
    Filed under: Vista, Windows, General

  • Vista SP2 Beta 1..

    I downloaded it last night, and installed it just a few minutes ago. The install process was surprisingly short and painless, the machine booting to how I remember it before running the update. Something I always do before running any major service pack is turn off anti-virus protection. WinPatrol has...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Thu, Dec 4 2008
    Filed under: Vista, General, Service Packs

  • Ultimate Windows Tweaker..

    Whenever I installed Windows onto a computer, the first thing I would install was TweakUI. I wasn't too fussed about the other items in the original Windows 95 Powertoys collection other than 'Send to any folder', but I hated the shortcut arrows with a passion, and I still do. The Windows...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Thu, Nov 27 2008
    Filed under: Vista, software, Utilities, General

  • Microsoft drop the Vista brand!!

    Yes, it really is true. The next incarnation of Windows will not be called 'Vista'. It will be called '7'. Need some time to take that in? Did you think that it would be called 'Vista' The anti-Vista brigade claim that this is conformation that even Microsoft think that Vista...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Fri, Oct 31 2008
    Filed under: Vista, General, Windows 7

  • Ultramon.. Dual Screen Functionality..

    Some you lose.. One of the most annoying events in a computer users life is losing features when upgrading to the latest and greatest OS. When I moved up to Vista from XP, my Canon scanner still retained full support because Canon were good enough to provide a Vista compatible toolbox. My HP printer...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Sun, Oct 26 2008
    Filed under: Vista, XP, Windows, Review, Utilities, General

  • Managing Partitions..

    Vista has a utility which allows the user to shrink partitions. This is a useful thing to be able to do, especially as the primary drives fitted into computers are now exceeding 250gb regularly. You just know that there has to be a catch. Remember that Microsoft can't get away with including full...
    Posted to Mike's Window (Weblog) by Mike Hall on Mon, Oct 20 2008
    Filed under: Vista, XP, General
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