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I completely forgot to document this down after having overcame it a couple of weeks back, so I better log it down even though I still haven't done that last bit of verification testing. It seems that a very low number of Windows Vista systems will encounter a show-stopper error that prevents .NET Framework 1.1 from successfully installing. It ...

After decades technology experience, with well over 10 years of 32-bit Windows operating system development, I thought we were long past this. But nope, apparently Windows Vista with all its delays and quality gates spanning over 3 years, still breaks like a baby who has pooped its diapers at the most fundamental of computing activities. The ...

MVP Maung Maung has shown a way to set this as a default privilege: But that begs the question: Why is that in the Compatibility tab? And not in Security? Given my past experience, that tab was only used for setting up legacy applications to run in Windows XP/2003; I never gave it a thought to look in the Compatibility tab for this scenario. ...

The biggest hurdle to installing new software is the unavoidable demand (not just a mere requirement) to spend that sitting time to learn it considerably to be useful and productive with it. This factor is increased exponentially when it is the operating system that gets upgraded. After going through the Ironman journey of simply getting ...

So sad considering just a couple of days ago I was impressed with the locked screen of Windows Vista. Now what's up with this operating system, you ask? Well, my company laptop is throwing tantrums again. This insufferable hardware continues to run the CPU to the ground with successive processes, preventing me from doing any productive work. I ...

So by now we have all the 10,001 Windows Vista annoyances documented all over the Internet. Maybe there is some opportunity for some little praise here. The only copy of Vista I have installed and running exists in my deteriorating PC, one of its ailments being the PS/2 and USB ports behind totally toasted. These few years tolerated with the ...

Everybody's installed the Beta 1 build and blogged more about it than the official OS manual that will be included in the release package can ever hope to be as thick. So here is my attempt not to be a social outcast (of the technical community; I'm still working on the other circles of civilisation) by showing I'm ''in'' with the rest of the ...