From the monthly archives:

January 2007

The many faces of Windows

January 30, 2007

Windows Vista is going to be released tonight. As I sit here writing this article it is only 3 hours, 3 minutes, 24 seconds before it is unleashed to the general public. It is times like this I get nostalgic and start thinking of the first time I got my hands on a copy of [...]

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The 5 sins of Vista

January 21, 2007

Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Areo Glass to run this way (I need glass running to get our [...]

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Disable USB Flash Drives

January 17, 2007

Update 1/18/2007 11:01 PM EST: I have received a few questions about this method – no it will not disable mice, or keyboards. It only disables storage devices attached to the USB port. This includes hard drives, flash drives, and any other type of USB storage device. And yes, if the user has administrator access [...]

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Reduce Word 2007 Compatibility Problems

January 15, 2007

The new version of Word saves documents in a different format. This is to facilitate all of the wonderful features it provides. Unfortunately this also means that documents saved will be incompatible with older versions. Yes…It is possible to go into settings, and change the default format to whatever you please – that includes the [...]

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Tweak your recent documents list

January 15, 2007

The recent documents list in Windows XP can be convenient. By default it is set to save the last 15 documents. Microsoft never provided an easy way to change the number of documents. To change the number of documents saved you will need to change a registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies You will need to add a [...]

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Unofficial Windows 2000 Daylight Saving Time Patch

January 11, 2007

We have updated our Network Administrator product – You can use it to deploy the patch, and verify it’s installation on machines across your network. Also we have updated the free patch More info about it hereUpdate 2/12/2007 12:57 AM EST – We created a different patch for Windows 98/ME. Visit here for more information [...]

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The Progression of Vista through screenshots

January 8, 2007

I have put together screen shots of Vista. It spans from the initial alpha preview to the RTM that was released in November. The first alpha preview released in 2002 Build 4029, Released in 2003. It had many changes over previous releases: · New welcome screen design · Image previews when hovering over an image [...]

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Microsoft to release 8 new patches on January 9th

January 5, 2007

As part of Microsoft’s regular patching schedule, they have announced that they will release 8 new security patches next Tuesday. They are: • Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. [...]

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32GB Flash drive for notebooks

January 4, 2007

SanDisk has released a 32 GB flash drive that may be used for laptops. The flash memory would be used as a boot drive to dramatically reduce startup time. Laptops that have the new drive would start becoming available in the first half of 2007. SanDisk has said that it would add about $600 to [...]

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How to run an external program within VB Script

January 2, 2007

When VB Script executes a command line program it opens a new window. This can be especially inconvenient when you want to incorporate an external application into your script. There is a way to have your script keep the console application within the same window, and wait for it to complete. What we will do [...]

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