Vista Vibes (RSS)

Interviews with users of Vista

How to hack the screensavers in Vista

Months before Windows Vista is actually released, we already know how to hack Vista's registry to modify the effects of the screensaver. This hack works because the original design for the screensavers allowed customisation using a control panel. Read More
posted Saturday, 9 September 2006 9:14 PM by LongZheng | 0 Comments
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Vista Pre-RC1

Now that TechEd is over, things are pretty quiet over here, so I thought I'd post about my Vista Pre-RC1 experiences. I have installed Vista Pre-RC1 release and it is much improved over the previous Beta2 builds. IMO, you could not use the beta2 builds Read More
posted Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:18 PM by glav | 0 Comments
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Vista Vibes #10: Andrew Coates

NOTEAndrew is a member of hte DPE team and is based in Sydney. How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)?   I don't have a desktop. My primary tablet (M200) is still running XP with Office 2003. My demo box is a Toshiba Read More
posted Friday, 9 June 2006 6:24 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #11 - Melbourne Touchdown Day 2

Here are two of the participants for the Vista Touchdown event in Melbourne: On the left is Darren Bennett and on the right is Hugh Dixon and they are both from Listech. I asked them each a couple of questions about their feelings of what they've Read More
posted Tuesday, 6 June 2006 6:40 PM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #10 - Melbourne Touchdown Day 1

Here are two of the participants for the Vista Touchdown event in Melbourne: On the left is Matt Robinson from Sage Technology and on the right is Mark Killmer from Infosys.  I asked them each a couple of questions about their feelings of day Read More
posted Monday, 5 June 2006 11:22 PM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #9: Dave Glover

NOTEDave is a member of the DPE team and is based in Melbourne.  It also appears that Dave has lost his login/password to the Corporate Challenge website, so if you find it lying around somewhere, please return it to him so that he can get Read More
posted Thursday, 1 June 2006 4:47 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #8: Angus Logan

How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)?   About a month a few months ago and now Beta 2 – 24 hours. Tell me about a Vista feature have you discovered recently.   Side bar, enhanced network security, disabling Read More
posted Wednesday, 31 May 2006 8:26 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #7: Dr. Neil Roodyn

NOTEDr Neil is an independant consultant who, at times can be found in Australia and  at other times he can be found elsewhere . How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)? I don’t use Vista as my primary OS yet Read More
posted Tuesday, 30 May 2006 5:25 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #6: Charles Sterling

NOTE: Chuck is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Australia living on the Gold Coast and also works on a lot of offshore stuff How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)? I loaded it at PDC 2003 and built some apps but haven’t Read More
posted Sunday, 28 May 2006 9:03 AM by darren | 1 Comments
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Vista Vibes #5: Paul Stovell

NOTEPaul is a fellow Readifiarian who, in a David and Goliath repeat, recently took on the might of the DPE team with a challenge to put up or shut up with a list of valid reasons for moving to WPF.   How long have you been running Vista for Read More
posted Thursday, 25 May 2006 8:21 AM by darren | 2 Comments
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Vista Vibes #4: Chris Auld

How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)?   My desktop is what my notebook PC sits on :-)  I have a seperate HDD with Vista installed that I swap into and out of my primary notebook PC- an Acer Ferrari 4005. It's Read More
posted Wednesday, 24 May 2006 9:02 AM by darren | 0 Comments
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Vista Vibes #3: Ian Griffiths

NOTE For anybody who hasn’t already heard of him, Ian Griffiths recently co-authored the hugely successful WPF book titled programming Windows Presentation Foundation and was responsible for training the folks who will be presenting at the upcoming Vista Read More
posted Tuesday, 23 May 2006 4:44 AM by darren | 7 Comments
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Vista Vibes #2: Grant Holliday

Hi Grant, couple of quick questions if I may.  How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)? Since Friday when you sent me this email. I had an dual-boot install already (http://www.holliday.com.au/blog/windows-vista-5365-installation-experience.html). Read More
posted Monday, 22 May 2006 9:46 PM by darren | 4 Comments
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Vista Vibes #1: Frank Arrigo

Hi Frank, couple of quick questions if I may.  How long have you been running Vista for on your desktop (honestly)?As my primary machine – 19 May 2006. I have it running on a Toshiba A7 (dual core) Tell me about a Vista feature have you discovered Read More
posted Sunday, 21 May 2006 12:21 PM by darren | 5 Comments
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