I wrote about how to achieve this way back in 2007! It’s one of the more popular things I’ve written about and I still refer back to it pretty often. The steps were for Windows XP and mostly worked for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. That said there are more options available now
Category: Windows Vista
Placing Blame Correctly
Can’t believe how long it’s been since my last blog post! I’ve really no idea where the days are going at the moment I’ve had a few problems with my work PC recently. It becomes very unresponsive and gets progressively worse during the day I fired up the trusty task manger and the CPU was
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Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 – Tim Long
Just wanted to share as I had this exact problem…thanks Tim! Also it’s so I don’t forget how to do it! Installing SQL Management Studio Express on Vista x64 – Tim Long It’s still installing software but that rant can wait for another time 🙂
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Poor Vista show by software vendor
Not the first time you’ve heard this story but thought I’d share One of our clients is just about to change all their PCs as part of a larger IT project They currently don’t have any Vista PCs so we had a chat about that. Obviously the client has heard all the usual press stories
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Stupid is as stupid does
If you’re on my Facebook friends list you’ll have got this message over the weekend Hello AllIf you’ve had a weird message from me (other than this one!) today please delete itI got the same message from a friend and while allowing my curiosity to get the better of me i managed to infect myself
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Installing Windows Live Writer on Vista 64-bit
I’m running Vista 64-bit so tried to install Live Writer a while back and got the following error From what I’ve read it’s to do with the unified Live installer and not Live Writer I’ve seen a couple of blog posts that mention if you can get the MSI file you can install it
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Screensaver does start with a wireless mouse plugged in
Very strange one today I took a call a few days ago from a client who “wasn’t asked for her password anymore when she’d been away from her desk” My initial thought was that her screensaver had been disabled or the password option had been turned off I logged in and everything was as I’d
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Action Pack Changes
Not that long ago Microsoft made changes to the way we got desktop operating system in the action pack. They moved to “non-oem” media and there was an awful lot of complaints at the time Thankfully they have taken all the feedback on board and made some changes. Check out the official line here. We’ll
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Running at higher DPI
A couple of days ago i spotted a blog post by Daniel Moth called 10 Tips on How to Setup Your Laptop before a Demo 10 pretty solid tips but what caught my eye was the second one. “Run at (120) High DPI.Task Subject Start Date Reminder Time Due Date In Folder Categories Expo Bespoke None None None Tasks To-Do I cannot stress this enough.
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Vista Service Pack 1 – installed
I don’t normally post about this sort of news as i haven’t exactly got the scoop on it and there is nothing worse than reading the same thing over and over again when your going through your feeds! But thought i’d post on this from a personal point view So as i’ve mentioned above, i’m