Microsoft has changed a few things since the days of Windows 2000/XP beta testing. RCs or Release Candidates usually came within days of RTM (Release to Manufacturing). From various articles, it seems Vista RC1 will come to us on September 7 and the final version will be released in November! There are some really nice [...]
Archives for August 2006
DirectX Out of Memory?
Here’s an interesting problem that stumped two techs before the problem got routed to me. It seems that one of our sales people was running a program that utilized DirectX. Unforunately, when they loaded the program none of the DirectX graphics would come up. In addition to this, dxdiag would come back with an “Out [...]
Windows Continues to Dominate
Interesting article from Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo Newsletter Today: OneStat: Windows Continues to Dominate Microsoft’s next-generation OS, Windows Vista, continues to be horribly late, but that hasn’t stopped the current version, Windows XP, from dominating the OS market. Web analytics company OneStat.com says that XP is responsible for almost 87 percent of all Web usage, while [...]
Installers Gone Wild
OK, so the title isn’t as exciting as “Girls Gone Wild”, but at least I tried. The company I work for as recently started to upgrade all of our machines from Office 97 to Office 2003. Did you say quantum leap? Thankfully, most of the Office 2003 suite (which I will refer to as O2K3 [...]
Finally Back Online!
After getting a replacement CPU from Newegg and popping it into my system my computer still wasn’t working! System would power on for 2 seconds and then power off. I stripped it to bare bones and still got the same thing. I ripped another power supply out of my test box and again it would [...]
Watercooling: Never Again
This weekend I attempted to install a watercooling kit from Danger Den, kit 4200. Took me about 3 hours to strip everything out of my PC and get the water blocks mounted. I turned it on and it was alive! Today, I wake up and start putting all my cards back into the system and [...]
Blog Face Lift and Pickles!
Tonight, my blog got a face lift. I picked a theme that added more screen real estate and I split up my posts into different categories. I hope you enjoy it. While you are enjoying it, watch this girl get scared whenever some one comes at her with pickles. I promise you will laugh! – [...]
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