From the monthly archives:

May 2008

I’ve stumbled across a nice usability improvement in Windows Vista that had escaped me until today – the display of free disk space. Of course this feature has been in Windows Explorer since Windows 95, but the improvement in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is the reporting of disk space when a drive is [...]

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Yay, great news – Citrix has released an update to fix the handling of Adobe Flash versions for Presentation Server 4.0. This has currently been released as part of the latest hotfix rollup for Presentation Server 4.0. For Presentation Server on Windows Server 2003 and above, this means that the SpeedFlash feature that accelerates the [...]

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As you’re probably aware, because all the major blogs have covered it already, Citrix has purchased sepagoProfile from sepago with an agreement for sepago to continue development over the next 18 months. The product will become Citrix User Profile Manager. I’m a fan of sepagoProfile because it’s very simple and Group Policy based, which is [...]

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To get the best out of Windows requires the wipe and load approach when confronted with a slow performing OEM install. I’m working on a post to that effect and Ed Bott has some great articles on Windows Vista performance lately (not that I think I’m in Ed Bott’s league). Windows’ greatest strength and weakness [...]

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No, Ace Ventura hasn’t started writing knowledgebase articles, it’s the advice given about an issue with redirected folders in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. I haven’t seen this myself, but fortunately there’s a better workaround than waiting 12 minutes. Folder redirection does not work correctly after you restart a computer that is running Windows [...]

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Instead of waiting for Citrix to support Windows Vista icon sizes in their new beta client, I’ve updated it myself. I’ll bet the Mac OS X client gets a full size icon (Leopard supports 512 x 512 pixels). Why does Vista have to be a second class citizen? Here’s the before and after shots: I’m [...]

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