Vista
Vista “unidentified network” can’t surf the net
Came across an interesting problem the other day where a friend could not surf the net as Vista was displaying ‘unidentified network’ when trying to connect to her wireless router. Wired (ie ethernet cable) was fine. What I did notice was that from a command prompt, an ‘ipconfig’ command did not give an IP on […]
Windows 7 beta download
Microsoft has announced that the beta version of Windows 7 will be released for download on Friday (US time). In fact Microsoft is encouraging everyone to try it, and having seen a pre release version I would jump at the chance if I were you. Windows 7, from what I have seen and tried thus […]
Xobni Outlook Plugin for email organization
Do you have a lot of email clogging up your inbox and have trouble organizing it all? I’ve found this great (and best part free) plugin for Outlook that does it all for you. It’s called Xobni, and works with Outlook 2003/2007 on XP and Vista Operating Systems. One of the many features it has […]
Vista update installing 3 of 3 loop
Got a call from mate the other day. His laptop running Vista appeared to be stuck installing an update (which we later worked out to be SP1), and continuously rebooting. The laptop was displaying ‘installing 3 of 3’ which didn’t really tell him too much. The fact that he wasn’t even getting into windows severely […]
Netstumbler for Vista!
Netstumbler is a great program for detecting Wireless Access Points, and more importantly, the signal strength. It’s a must-have program that every tech/nerd should have. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in Microsoft Vista – but there is an alternative. It’s called Vistumbler. personally I haven’t tried it, but friends of mine say it looks and feels […]