Contents tagged with Vista
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Vista Died Today
All of the sudden Vista just broke. I can't connect to the internet. Initially, the DHCP client just refused to start. I resolved that problem by granting some permissions and setting a registry key, but I still can't use the internet.
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Tray and Play: ClickOnce for PC Games
Console'ish load times for PC games on first run coming to a PC near you:
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Who's The Best?
"I have analyzed the vulnerability disclosures and fixes for Windows Vista and examined the results in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with several other modern workstation operating systems including Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell and Apple products to try and answer that question.
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My First Vista BSOD
If you are installing vista after installing Daemon tools (in my case, I was upgrading the factory home edition to ultimate from MSDN ISO) and you start getting a blue screen after crcdisk.sys loads, the problem is most likely a file installed by Daemon tools. To solve the problem, launch the recovery console at boot menu, open a command prompt, and delete <WINDOWS>\System32\Drivers\sptd.sys and restart and the install should continue without bluescreening.
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Vista RTM Installation Cannot Update Boot Configuration
If you get this error, I'll save you all the trouble I went through figuring out how to resolve this:
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Official Vista Download Date
"...we look forward to adding Windows Vista to our slate of offerings beginning November 17."
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Download Vista Tonight?
Subscriber downloads are going to go down shortly for a few hours of matinence. I wonder why... :)
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Vista RTM Today?
According to Mary Jo Foley The day has finally come: Windows Vista is going gold.
Foley mentions "the public announcement that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing is going to happen tomorrow, November 8, around 11 a.m. PST, sources close to the company are saying."
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Screw 2.0, I'm Going Straight to 3.0
Recently the discussion came up about using .NET 2.0 in some future products. I work on server products, and we've been using 2.0 there for a while. However, there is a bit of concern around deploying the 2.0 framework with our desktop apps. Our software is shipped ESD style and a lot of customers like to download the trial app before making the purchase. If they try to install the app, but can't because they need to be an administrator to install the .NET framework 2.0, we probably just lost out on the sale. I would venture to guess that a significant chunk of our customers fall into the non-administrator group, so this is a big problem.
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Visual Studio Express Should be Part of Windows
Jeroen van den Bos has made the case for adding VS Express to Windows. [1]