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In the midst of service pack releases, Microsoft has also rolled out an update that seems to address the notorious Sleep of Death and Vista Insomnia issues we’ve been reporting about of late. Here’s the link to the info and download , and here's what is addressed. This update is called a "preview...
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As we blogged last week , The Vista SP1 Release Candidate is now available for public download. If you’re looking to see what fixes are contained in the Service Pack, check out this post by Long Zheng of istartedsomething . Keep in mind, this isn’t the final release, it is a release candidate...
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There is a great thread running in the GBM Forums startred by TEO develoepr Josh Einstein. He kicked the thread off with this statement: That's it. I've had it with reading baseless claims about Vista's bugginess in newsgroups, blogs, and forums. From now on, I am going to take anyone to...
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I spent last week away from the office in technical rehearsals for Shadow of the Raven: Stories of Edgar Allan Poe . I was using both the Asus R2H and the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 during my work depending on tasks. As we have a wireless network in the our new theatre space it makes communicating back to the...
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Small firestorm alert. In the last couple of days CNET and Engadget have blown some air on the embers that have been simmering over Vista issues. And of course in mobile circles those issues smolder pretty close to the surface. It was reported that “ Microsoft is quietly allowing PC Makers to offer a...
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Timing. James Kendrick has had enough . A master of mobile technology, he’s been working with Vista on more mobile devices than I can keep track of. He’s put up a pretty scathing post on jkOnTheRun stating that that in his opinion Vista will never run well on mobile devices and it is one...
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I’ve installed the Performance and Reliability Pack and the Compatibility and Reliability Pack on three different machines: The Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet PC, The Samsung Q1P UMPC, and the Asus R2H UMPC. Note that many of the issues addressed by the two updates where never problems for me. In very early...
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Toshiba is going to release a Limited Edition 32GB USB Flash Drive that will be ReadyBoost Enabled. The target is December. They’ll be releasing smaller capacity versions (1–8Gig) in October. Of course the 32Gigger will cost you a bundle at $665. The real question in my mind is will the Vista...
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Vista Battery Saver is just what its name says it is: A utility to squeeze as much life out of those batteries that you can. Basically it looks like a small control panel that helps you turn of Aero Glass features and the Sidebar when you switch to battery and then restarts then when you plug back in...
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There are many useful utilities found in Vista today. You name it, from snipping to syncing to sidebar, they cover all sorts of neat features. Additionally, there are all sorts of system specific utilities that ship with today's mobile PC's. Today's "How-To" is a bit retro, and...
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GBM Forum members are certainly an interprising bunch. Remember Powertoys for XP? Seems so long ago doesn’t it. Well, don’t fret if there aren’t any running under Vista. Mickey Segal posts methods to get four XP Powertoys running on Vista. They inlcude: Hexic Dictionary Tool for Tablet...
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Word started trickling out about the beta of Vista SP1 yesterday and this morning, Long Zheng posts what I hope is good news. One of the fixes in SP1 will address the horrible disk thrashing that I’ve been reporting on when you use the ReadyBoost feature. (It led to me jettisioning ReadyBoost entirely...