Archive for February, 2007

Live Traffic Gadget

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

This is one of the cooler gadgets I have seen come out for Vista. It takes traffic information from live.com and displays it on your desktop.
As of today the supported areas are:
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San [...]

Change UAC Behavior To Be Less Annoying

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Donna at dozleng.com has put up a way to modify they way UAC acts for users. One of the biggest complaints about UAC is the “annoyance” factor. Now if you have been in a sys admin job for any amount of time you will have grown a thick skin to hearing the users complain [...]

Error occurs when upgrading Windows 2000 to Windows Vista

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

When trying to update your computer to any verison of Windows Vista from within Windows 2000 you recieve the following error when you have to load any storage driver:
Install Windows: setup.exe - Entry Point Not Found
Error: The Procedure Entry point LZCopy could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32.dll
To work around this issue, [...]

Switch Back To The Old Start Menu

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

I got a IM from a friend and we were discussing his upgrade to Vista (Hi Vic!!!) and how much he liked the old interface and start menu. I had read about being able to switch the start menu back to the old XP style quick and easy. I walked him through it [...]

Restoring Desktop Icons In Windows Vista

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

One of the first things I noticed when I got into the desktop after installing Vista was that the desktop was clean as a whistle. I missed my old icon friends that have made the journey with me through the older versions. I want them back!!! I found out it is quick [...]