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In a previous article, I wrote about how to sound stupid by saying " let's wait for Service Pack 1 before we deploy Windows Vista ". Now here are a few ways to sound clever, by pointing to specific issues that will be fixed by Windows Vista SP1 . GPMC.MSC (the Group Policy Management Console...
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Jesper's article in TechNet Magazine on the purpose and future of UAC in Windows Vista and beyond reminded me that there's a whole slew of behaviours more annoying than UAC's prompting (which, as Jesper points out, is only the most visible portion of a system-wide and company-wide approach...
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Every so often, I'll hear it said, and frequently not in jest, "let's wait until Service Pack 1 before we deploy Vista", or sometimes "Server 2008". While it's true that Microsoft has indeed announced plans to test, and then release, Windows Vista SP1 early in 2008 , I...
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I'm playing with BitLocker a little, and I need a small temporary partition to encrypt and decrypt on a frequent basis. No problem, right? I can just open up Computer Management, select Storage, Disk Management, and then shrink a volume that has lots of space. [I can do the same with "diskpart"...
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I spent a while the other day trying to figure this one out. Under "Start", I have a 'pinned' Command Prompt item. I can't get a context menu (aka "right-click menu") to appear when I right-click on this Command Prompt. I can right-click on the Command Prompt choices that...
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Did you upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista? Do you turn off Explorer's "Hide Known File Types" option? If so, try this: Right-click on your desktop, select "New" and then "Text File". Name your text file "test.cmd". Approve the prompt that tells you changing...
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I bought two SD Cards today, each of which are 2GB in size (and each with a warning on the back that this means 2*10^6, not 2*2^30, bytes). One of them is to go into my wife's pink camera, the other is to go into my laptop, as a ReadyBoost drive (aka spare memory) . Now, a ReadyBoost drive has to...
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Windows NT 3.1 was released ... oh, back in the early to mid '90s. Ever since then, I've been aware that it supported Alternate Data Streams, also known as ADS, or in some technical documents that didn't make it to final review, Alternative Data Streams. This was added, I think, to support...
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I've been trying to figure out why I can't use the "Save as PDF or XPS" function from Word 2007, in the Office 2007 suite in Windows Vista. I assumed it was Vista's fault, because my wife's machine, running Windows XP, works fine. First, the obvious rant - it's really irritating that Adobe (makers of...
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17:45 - A couple drives down unfamiliar streets, looking for a place that they only believe is the right venue, based on an ability to throw GPS co-ordinates at Google Maps. [Yes, Google Maps, because I couldn't figure out how to do that with Live Maps - irony.] 17:50 - Arrival at a sign that, in the...