As you’re most likely aware, Microsoft has recently made available Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. If you would like to know the details of every single fix and feature in the service pack, download this spreadsheet: Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2. What’s always interesting to [...]
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Terminal Server
I’ve been looking to get a tablet PC for some time now and I’ve just recently picked up a Dell Latitude XT2, which includes multi-touch support. It arrived the same day as the Windows 7 Release Candidate, so the default Windows Vista install, disappeared pretty quickly. I must say though, it’s a little disappointing to [...]
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Windows 7
When Windows just won’t stay in sleep mode there’s a simple fix. First you need to identify which component keeps bringing Windows out of sleep mode. To do that, open the System event log and find any events from source ‘Power-Troubleshooter’ that indicate that the system has returned from sleep mode – similar to this: [...]
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Power Management
I thought I’d seen just about every dumb thing that a developer could do, but this latest one from MSI is a whopper.. I have an MSI Wind netbook that’s having some shutdown and sleep issues when running Windows 7, so my first thought was to ensure I was running the latest BIOS version. For [...]
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UAC