Vista Squad

Personally I like the Areo interface, so I leave it on but I must admit to being a bit of a gadget person.   I think it’s down to personal choice, but if you’re running a machine with low resources, it may well pay to turn it all off and free up some much needed speed.

Courtesy of Vista Squad Buddy, James Senior (read his blog ''Views on Windows Vista'' http://blogs.technet.com/james/default.aspx) The Microsoft Environment Sustainability Blog mentions a cool new app which is FREE that allows you to control power consumption on PCs. The tool is called Edison and is developed by Verdiem. Link to tool: ...

Has anyone tried the latest beta of Internet Explorer 8 yet, If so how have you got on with it. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/30/wanted-ie8-beta-testers.aspx    

Hey all, Came across this list of essential downloads for Vista via Channel 10 (and Steve Clayton) http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Essential-Downloads-for-Vista/ Windows Live – the Windows Live Suite upgrades Vista’s built-in programs like Photo Gallery and Mail to give you the newer versions – Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live ...

Microsoft have just released a white paper on the Five main and Misunderstood features of Vista. This paper explains about there background and also how best to deal with them. User Account Control, Display Driver Model, Vista's Search, 64 bit architecture and Image management This paper is very imformative and well worth a ...

Windows Firewall tip When using the command line to configure application exception rules it is best for ease of administration to make sure that you name the exception, for example. netsh firewall set allowedprogram program=c:\windows\notepad.exe This command will work fine and the syntax is more than acceptable and the rule would be added ...

Steve's awesome demo of NAP is currently being dealt with by Ian Smith, our video extraordinaire, so for the time being, Steve has kindly emailed me the slides he used at the event.  Hope you enjoy! Download Files Also, head on over to Steve's blog, very active and FULL of useful information.

I’ve been out at a client’s trouble shooting some network issues on small network that supports both Windows Xp and Vista machines. While tracking the issue down to a faulty NIC , I noticed that I was unable to ping the Vista pc’s but was able to ping the Windows XP clients. This is due to the fact that the Windows Vista Firewalls default is to ...

Anyone had any luck in hooking these two products up?

Wow, this is doable but man its risky if you don't have a UPS.....  Good tip! :)