Now that Microsoft Office 2007 is out in the wild users of older versions of Office and Word may encounter problems opening Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from Office 2007 users. The new suite introduces new file formats, called Open XML. Frankly it’s a nuisance but there is a solution so if you are having trouble and you need to download the Office 2007 (more…)
Although Internet Explorer 7 doesnt have as many plugins or addons as Firefox, there are addons for IE7 that will cover off most of the features that users will need covering. Over the last couple of months I have been using IE7 as my main browser, because its the only one I am allowed to use at work.
Martin from gHacks has put together a great list of some of the free plugins, which are all available in the Windows Marketplace. He is even located the Firefox equivalent if you (more…)
Windows Vista has a useful networking tool, called Network Map, which displays a graphical view of all of the computers and devices connected to a network, and how they are interconnected, and it works just fine when all of the PCs concerned are running Vista. The trouble is, in the early days at least, many networks will be mixed and running mostly XP machines and that’s the problem. XP computers won’t show up in Vista’s Network map because they lack a component called a Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) responder. If this careless omission has been bugging you – and why wouldn’t it — then you‘ll be pleased to know Microsoft has now released a fix in the form of a download, which if installed on your XP computers, makes them magically visible to Vista. Get it now, while it’s hot…
The new Network Map in Windows Vista allows you to easily create a map of all computers on your network and see how they are connected. This works by using the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol that is only part of Windows Vista.
To help users of mixed environments of both Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft has released the Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder for Windows XP. This will make your Windows XP computers show up in the Network Map in Windows Vista. (more…)
Microsoft has released the final version of Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 that has fixed the compatibility issues with Windows Vista.
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If the machine participated in the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta, please be sure to uninstall the beta first.
During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. While we have made tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backwards compatibility, (more…)
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vistaâ„¢ family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, and create Windows PE images.
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Through use of the detailed inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether the computers can run Windows Vista, where to find drivers for devices on the computers, and provide recommendations for hardware upgrades, where appropriate. (more…)
