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Vista and Bluetooth headset devices

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:31 PM by tomek
Vista RTM has been released without support for Bluetooth (BT) headset devices - at least this is what I know and my Motorola BT headset was not properly installed with Vista. This is a little odd as in some earlier beta and RC this option was available. Read More...
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Vista and device drivers once again

Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 3:07 PM by tomek
I wrote some time ago about problems with USB drivers (but not only USB) which are not recognized by Vista (or to be more specific drivers for these devices can't be found). As a quick solution I found out that in most cases pointing driver wizard to Read More...
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Vista and problem with storage devices connected through USB

Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:13 AM by tomek
Generally speaking I like Vista. I think that as a system for my main laptop machine it works really OK. I haven’t any hardware or BSOD problems till now (except problem with connecting my Canon SLR camera – BTW Canon has released updated drivers for Read More...
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Vista and Canon 350D

Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:04 PM by tomek
I'm owner of Canon 350D digital SLR which I think is good for me as for average photographer. For some time I wasn't able to download photos made with it on my Vista enabled laptop. Every time I've connected my camera to Vista I've got this nice information Read More...
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Error after applying BitLocker schema extensions

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:26 PM by tomek
New KB article 932862 was published yesterday to discuss issues which may occur after applying BitLocker schema extensions in Active Directory forest under some conditions. As this KB states: (...) This problem occurs if the following conditions are true: Read More...
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BitLocker(ed)

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:17 PM by tomek
Are You using some methods of securing data on Yours laptop hard drive? EFS anyone? I'm curious how many of readers are using TrueCrypt? Until today I've used TrueCrypt as a solution for secure file storing on my laptop machine. TrueCrypt is really cool Read More...
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Mark is writing about Vista's kernel

Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:46 PM by tomek
Mark Russinovich (well known as founder of Sysinternals and author of tools like Process Explorer, Regmon, Filemon and many more ... ), now Technical Fellow at Microsoft, is writing in last Technet Magazine about Vista's kernel . As this article has "Part Read More...
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How to install ADAM on Vista?

Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:03 AM by tomek
Quick info - Ryan Dunn shows on his blog how to get ADAM running on Vista machine . Nice tip for all people who gave a try to Vista. Read More...
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How to install Windows Server admin pack on Vista

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:35 PM by tomek
New Knowledge Base article KB 930056 was published on 23 December, and it describes procedure which allows Windows Server admin pack tool to be installed and used on Windows Vista. As this procedure was around for a while on lists and newsgroups it's Read More...
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FireFox and CardSpace (InfoCards)

Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 10:56 PM by tomek
Kim Camreon posted lately link to Kevin Miller's blog who wrote FireFox plugin for CardSpace . CardSpace (InfoCards) is Windows implementation for user centric identity idea. To use CardSpace as authentication factor in the Internet Your browser has Read More...
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Schema extensions for Vista new features

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:58 PM by tomek
Vista introduces several new functionality and few of then (to be specific two) requires our AD environment to get prepared through schema extension. These schema extension needed to run new Vista's features will be part of LH schema, but LH is still Read More...
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Vista Group Policy Log View

Posted Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:28 PM by tomek
Microsoft has published new Vista tool called Group Policy Log View . Its name tells everything about its purpose. Vista's GPO processing takes advantage of new event logging subsystem Crimson and stores a lot of data about GPO processing in event Read More...
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Hybrid sleep in Vista

Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:44 PM by tomek
Shutdown options in Vista had recently some space in blogsphere because of Joel's post about Vista shutdown menu, and follow up made by Moishe Lettvin who worked on developing this piece. Continuing this thread we can get a view on how development Read More...
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Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)

Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:03 PM by tomek
New download called Windows Automated Installation K it just showed up on Downloads. According to its description: (...) Use this tool to configure unattended setup answer files (Unattend.xml) and capture images. (...) It support Windows 2003/XP/Vista. Read More...
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Vista RTM first impressions

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:28 PM by tomek
Vista officially got to RTM. I'm using Vista since it became Beta 2 with several upgrades on the way. Today I installed fresh Vista RTM on my laptop and I want to share few of my fresh thoughts about it. First - installation procedure. Damn, it is Read More...
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