Category: Vista
Reducing the Windows Vista Footprint
The Windows Vista footprint is quite large, so my current thoughts are “how to reduce the Windows Vista footprint ?”. I hope to come up with a complete overview at some stage, for now i have found the following interesting Read More …
Vista SP2 CPP anouncement
According to a blog post on the Windows Blog from Mike Nash, Windows Vista SP2 will be made available on TechNet Thursday December 4th. Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) Customer Preview Read More …
Microsoft Knowledge Base – What’s new ?
So often you find yourself with a technical problem and after long searching you might come across a Microsoft Knowledge base article. Especially with new products so called quick fix engineering updates are provided on a regular basis, so I was Read More …
It’s about time to install MS08-067
If you haven’t done so yet, it’s about time you get the MS08-067 patch installed on your Windows clients. According to a recent post on the Microsoft® Malware Protection Center blog, another wave of attacks has been identified. By the way Read More …
Windows and Memory Limitations
it was the second time this week i came across the Windows RAM topic, once by reading and once by a question a colleague asked me. So enough reasons to to look for something that describes it in detail. The Read More …
Vista SP1 download using BITSADMIN
I wrote about BITSADMIN earlier, use the below command line to directly download Vista SP1. Note that you have to create the c;\download folder yourself or define an other path. BITSADMIN /TRANSFER VSP1 http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/a/9/3a9b72c2-527d-4694-8a49-84c056d4c34d/Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe C:\DOWNLOAD\Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe
Vista SP1 cleanup tool VSP1CLN.EXE
If you have installed Windows Vista SP1 on top of your first Vista installation and have no plans to uninstall it, you might want to give the following command a try “VSP1CLN.exe”. The Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Files Removal Tool (VSP1CLN.exe) Read More …
Don’t Wait for Windows 7
I just recevied an updated paper from Microsoft regarding Windows Vista and some statements why not to wait for Windows7. There is no need to wait for Windows 7. It is a goal of the Windows 7 release to minimize Read More …