Archives for November 2006

Windows Vista Product Key Update

Earlier I wrote a blog entry about product key finders and how they still work on Windows Vista. Well, it appears that this does not work on the Enterprise edition of Vista. You can use a key finder to find what key comes bundled with the DVD, but once you activate it with a different [...]

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Ashampoo Burning Studio 2007 for Free

Free download and totally legit! http://www.computeractive.co.uk/burningstudio/index Just fill out the registration for a free product key.  And yes, this version works on Windows Vista!

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Installing the Windows 2003 Admin Pack on Windows Vista

From Josh’s blog: we have a neat little trick to getting the Admin Pack tools from Windows 2003 working on Vista. I have uploaded FIXADMINPACK.CMD up to my web site. Just run the file after you install the Admin Pack and it should work. (Just verified that this works on RC2 and RTM; make sure [...]

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Installing The Final Version of Windows Vista

Well, I am like a kid in a candy store! The final version of Windows Vista was put up on Technet last night and I eagerly downloaded it. After downloading and burning the DVD, I booted from the DVD. The option to not put in a product key is still there. My guess is that [...]

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Blog Comments Disabled

For some reason my blog is getting flooded with comments from spam bots.  I’ve also noticed a spike in visitor traffic the past few days (about twice the amount of visits I usually get).  Since I have to moderate each comment and either approve or deny them, I am disabling commenting at this time.  If [...]

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Windows Vista RTM (Build 6000) Already Leaked

Yes, indeed. Two days after the announcement of Windows Vista going RTM, copies have already leaked to the Internet. Using a few files from build RC2 (no, I won’t tell you which ones), pirates have already figured out how to activate Windows Vista RTM. More than likely, Microsoft already knows about this work around and [...]

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Sysinternals Web Site Has Moved to Microsoft

Systinternals is now at Microsoft and they now have Process Monitor 1.0 out which replaces Filemon and Regmon.  This version also works on Windows Vista. The Winternals part of Russinovich’s business is being bundled into the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance.  More information about this product can be found here. In a nutshell, [...]

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Behind the Scenes: A Look at Windows Vista

Here are a few snapshots of the environment that Windows Vista is being built in.  What’s interesting is that 1,000 applications are tested daily with each build of Windows Vista.  If you look at my earlier blog post which has videos of eariler Windows builds (2000/XP) and how they were made, you will see this fact [...]

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Windows Vista RTM is Imminent!

From Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo: My sources at the software giant confirmed this weekend that Microsoft is set to finalize Windows Vista as early as Monday and release the product to manufacturing. The final build number is expected to be 6000.16386.061101-2205, I’m told. (Readers may recall that WinInfo broke the news that Microsoft would iterate Vista [...]

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Remove Novell and Microsoft Word Goes Ape

Here’s an interesting situation. Our company is moving from Novell to Microsoft for our file and directory services. We removed the Novell client from everyone’s workstation and that seemed to work just fine. Then we removed everyone’s rights to said Novell server and everything is still fine. Then shut down said Novell server and bam: [...]

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