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Got My Free Vista Ultimate
01.May.08 | 6 Comments
You know what would be really useful for potential Vista upgraders? A way to get the Windows Experience Index score before installing Vista. The Upgrade Advisor doesn’t quite cut it…
Why do I care (again)?
Towards the end of last year I was invited to become a Windows Feedback panelist (I believe this is the correct link). [...]
In Which I Confess to Duncity
25.Apr.08 | 5 Comments
Is duncity a word? The act of being a dunce?
Today I learned something new!
For as long as I’ve been connecting to WinXP machines with Remote Desktop, I’ve been whining about a pain in the butt it is to remotely reboot an XP box. I mean seriously, here’s the start menu options when in a remote [...]
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to the Rescue
26.Mar.08 | Leave a Comment
I continued to update FolderShare installs today and ran into a new wrinkle with my home XP desktop. While trying to upgrade the existing version — or even just plain uninstall it — I’d continually get a prompt to supply the original install file for that old version.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I [...]
Handy Util: WinSplit Revolution
08.Mar.08 | Leave a Comment
Now that every monitor I use has “wide” tacked onto its name, I find I spend a fair amount of time resizing windows so that I can get two or three all visible at the same time. Might as well get my money’s worth and use all them pixels, right?
For instance, when doing web [...]
andLinux Quick Look
22.Feb.08 | 5 Comments
This will be a very quick look since I can’t get it to properly run, but conceptually I think andLinux could be pretty sweet. What is it?
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X [...]
