Vista Review

So it looks as if Microsoft it battling bad Vista PR with the same resource it usually does in bad times - MONEY! They are throwing lots of money at the problem in hopes that they can fix the “Vista perception” in the public eye. Personally, I think that they should just spend that money [...]

I’m wondering how many people out there (on average) have updated their Vista laptops and desktops to SP1 not that it’s been available quite awhile. I have to say - I haven’t updated my laptop yet at all, especially since I read that (despite the initial hype) machines aren’t running faster at all post-upgrade, they’re [...]

Well, to everyone that was waiting for SP1 to come out - guess what, the “official release” that was initially posted on the web was full of errors that made machines reboot and reboot and reboot and reboot! And now they’re saying that it’s 40% slower than XP!
In other Vista news this week, turns out [...]

If you’re looking to remove optional components of Vista that you might not need, “the How-To geek” can tell you how to get that done. Actually, I was surprised by not only how easy it was, but by how many crazy unnecessary things were running all over the place.
Indexing Service, IIS, .NET framework, UNIX Subsystem, [...]

The official release of Vista SP1 can’t be far off, because anyone can register and download the official SP1 release from Microsoft’s OEM site. There are so many improvements and to exising Vista features that I just can’t wait for this thing. I’m about to download that OEM version and install it and be done [...]

Windows Vista has many complaints of being slow for the amount of memory it requires. Can you speed it up? Sure you can…
One of the things that I’ve not done with Windows Vista is try to speed it up using the ReadyBoost technology that comes with it. What is ReadyBoost? Essentially you use a USB [...]

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or SP1 is now available to the general public (Release Candidate 1 or RC1), and Microsoft has prepared a 17 page document describing the changes that Vista SP1 will include. Looks like one of the biggest bug fixed we can look forward to is support for “exFAT” which will greatly [...]

Well, according to this PC World article, once you get Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or SP1 - your PC will be just as slow as the original version of Vista. That kinda sucks, like I wrote in other posts here on Vista Review - this OS was touted as being “snappy, responsive, and fast”, [...]

This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard of in a very long time. The Register is reporting that an entire shipment of Windows Vista laptops was possibly infected with the ‘Stoned’ bootsector virus from 1994. These notebooks were shipped with both Vista and Bullguard Antivirus. I CANNOT BELIEVE that neither of these [...]

Windows Vista is getting to be the strangest version of Windows I have ever used.  I’ve had my Toshiba Satellite laptop for about 11 months now, and as you know it came installed with Vista on it from the factory.  The weird thing is I can’t remember ever telling it to automatically download and install [...]

Thank you Chris Pirillo for coming to the rescue again and showing us how to make Windows Vista automatically login (and not prompt you every damned time):

To open this in the UAC (or User Account Control) in Vista, go to the start/search area of Vista, and type in NETPLWIZ. Once you get there:
* UNcheck [...]

If you are wondering what some of the real-world problems with Microsoft Windows Vista are, you should read Chris Pirillo’s post (and video) about Vista vs. XP.
Chris says that the real problems are when you try to customize and push the system beyond what the normal defaults are.  Audio problems, video problems, driver problems, and [...]

So it turns out that one of the most popular software programs on the planet “iTunes” is having multiple conflicts with Microsoft Windows Vista.? For the last month Apple had a warning against upgrading to Vista on it’s web site, but this week it changed to an update stating that “itunes is recommended for use [...]

So I bought a brand new Toshiba P105 laptop with Windows Vista installed.? It has a Dual Core Intel 1.6Ghz processor, 120GB hard drive, and 1GB of ram.? One would think that this would be a pretty powerful notebook.? When I first broke the seal on the case and fired this thing up - of [...]