Archive for 'vista' Category

iTunes 8 is not for me (yet)

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, September 11, 2008

I feel like a right negative Nancy for bringing this up (especially after my Ubiquity post), but despite the cool, new features, I won’t be installing iTunes 8 on my Vista PC until at least the next version. It appears iTunes 8 on Vista is causing crashes (blue screen of death) for many people. Ed [...]

Vista is Slow

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Vista is Slow Originally uploaded by Surferbill. Extracting a 798MB zip file under Vista will allegedly take nearly a day and a half!

How To Disable Automatic Download Blocking in IE7/Vista

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Issue: Since moving to IE7 on Vista, I cannot download some attachments from some websites or web applications. I click the link on the website, it pops up a new window, and in the new window the File/Save dialog box does not appear. Instead, the new window just disappears. This particularly affects PeopleSoft HelpDesk version [...]

How To View Your Google Calendar In Outlook 2007

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I’ve been looking for this since I started using Google Calendar, and now with Office 2007 you can easily view your Google calendar in Outlook. Outlook calls it an Internet Calendar, and uses the iCal link in your Google Calendar Settings. Log on to your Google Calendar account. In the left column, under Calendars, click [...]