Need to burn an ISO to CD but don’t want to burn third party software to do it? Check out ISO Recorder, it allows you to right-click on an ISO and burn it to CD. There is a version of this software for Windows XP and Vista. It supports DVD recording and CD recording. Best of […]
I started running a product called TweakVI on my Vista box and it has made a pretty big different on the general speed of my machine. I have used Tweak products in the past on older OSes and have always been pretty pleased with the products.
It basically gives you one interface to make all the […]
If you don’t think you will ever use hibernation like say on your desktop and you don’t want that huge hiberfil.sys file on your hard drive disable this. One less thing eating up your system resources as well.
1. Open the Start Menu
2. Right click Command Prompt
3. Select Run as administrator
4. To turn Hibernation off […]
If you are still using telnet to mange some of your devices try to upgrade them to SSH. But I do know that a ton of switches and other lower end devices just don’t have SSH. Most of these devices do have web interfaces but if you are like me nothing beats the good old […]
Well after some limited users were using the Cisco VPN Client 5 beta it worked at first then we had some more problems with intermittent connection problems.
Last post here
Cisco has just released the official Client 5.0.00.0340 which is supposed to fix most issues with Vista. Remember you cannot use the installer shield version in […]
Well the issues with Cisco VPN clients and Vista continues. The past posts including: More Vista Fun with VPN, have fixed most of the issues with most of the users.
Unfortunately one of our users has started having the following issue.
Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client.
Reason 440: Driver Failure.
We have not found a workaround […]
Ran across something this morning in my RSS feeds that I thought was interesting. Vista’s firewall claims to inspect traffic incoming and outgoing from your PC. Apparently though by default only incoming protect is enabled, you need to enable the outgoing protect rules.
I would not say this is such a bad this because if the […]
I originally posted on running Cisco VPN on Vista here.There is actually a newer client that is working better and its version # is 4.8.02.0010. You must install the msi version because the is version doesn’t install on Vista. We have fun this to be a stable VPN client on both Vista and XP for […]
One of the features of Vista that I am really starting to like is one of the ways to connect to unc shares. When you click on the start menu there is a start search bar in the box. This bar is a cross between a search box and the old run bar. What makes […]
This is my first post from Windows Vista, I am running Vista Business now and I don’t want to ever go back. I haven’t found anything functional that I don’t like yet, some programs don’t work but that isn’t Vista’s fault. One of the programs I have not yet installed is Wireshark because of the […]
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