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[Vista] SP1 Available for MSDN Subscribers
Lots of people have now blogged about the availability of Vista SP1 on MSDN Subscription, but what is new and when will it be available for the public? I Googled around a bit... Mike Nash on the Windows Product Management group blogs on the Windows Vista...
Posted: Feb 23 2008, 11:01 AM by jdanforth | with 2 comment(s)
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[Vista] Getting Daemon Tools to Work in Vista Beta 2
Try this at own risk (see below) If you like me use Daemon tools alot and want to get it to work in Vista Beta 2 - Try downloading an older version 3.02 from the D-tools archives . It worked for me. You may have to disable UAP to install the drivers though...
Posted: Jun 04 2006, 07:27 PM by jdanforth | with 1 comment(s)
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[Vista] ATI Drivers for Vista Beta 2
Found this news article (and downloading as I write): ATI today released a major update to its first beta generation Windows Vista graphics driver. The Catalyst Beta package fully supports the Vista Display Driver Model (VDDM) and should deliver greater...
Posted: Jun 04 2006, 05:54 PM by jdanforth | with no comments
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[Vista] Some Things Work - Others Don't
I decided to be brave and installed Vista Beta 2 on my home computer. Because you have to format the C-drive, I made a huge, fresh backup of most of my files and went ahead with the install. Vista installed fine and started up OK with a few issues: My...
Posted: Jun 04 2006, 04:35 PM by jdanforth | with no comments
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[Vista] What does Vista do when it Sleeps?
I have to say the new "power button" which puts Vista into the new "Sleep" mode seems nice. My 2 Ghz laptop (which doesn't have much on it yet I must admit) goes to sleep in 1 second and starts up in pretty much the same time. Superfast - I like it. As...
Posted: May 29 2006, 03:56 PM by jdanforth | with 1 comment(s)
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[Vista] Is Sami the Default Swedish Language?
I had heard about this before, but someone had also said it was going to be fixed for beta 2. Looks like it wasn't because when I selected Sweden as my region, it defaulted to Sami, Lule (Sweden) as language :) There were actually 3 different Sami dialects...
Posted: May 24 2006, 10:09 AM by jdanforth | with no comments
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[Vista] Beta 2 Available on MSDN Subscription
Guess I'm not the first to notice, but beta 2 of Vista is available for download to MSDN subscription owners. 3200 MB ISO :) EDIT: There still (day after release) seems to be a problem with generating license keys for any other Vista version than the...
Posted: May 23 2006, 08:00 PM by jdanforth | with 3 comment(s)
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[Vista] Vista VPC File Size
If someone's interested - the size of the virtual hard drive after installing Vista + VMAdditions is around 8 GIG. I could try to shrink the file size, but I guess it wouldn't help much. Seems pretty hard to copy it to a 4.7 GB DVD then...
Posted: Mar 25 2006, 06:53 PM by jdanforth | with no comments
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[Vista] Testing Vista Feb CTP on VirtualPC
Today I installed the Feb CTP of Vista on my box at home, under VPC. The install was noticably faster than before, but even so took about an hour I think. I went out for a while, enjoying the spring sun, so I'm not sure exactly how long the install took...
Posted: Mar 25 2006, 06:45 PM by jdanforth | with no comments
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[Vista] Virtual Vista Bloggers
An excellent way to test out a new operating system like Vista is to run it in a virtual machine, but some people run into problems installing and getting good performance out of it. The last days I've been reading posts from these two guys on the topic...
Posted: Mar 22 2006, 09:13 AM by jdanforth | with no comments
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