Category Archives: Vista

Bizarre Vista behavior

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

For our software, we are now “supporting” Vista, however we haven’t been running Vista internally, and our entire Vista testing environment has been at our oursourcing company in India.  A few months ago, I had to get a new laptop, … Continue reading →

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Updated Live Mesh crashing on my Mac

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m really loving Live Mesh.  Until yesterday, everything just workedTM.  Unfortunately that all came to a screeching halt when Mesh on my MacBook told me I had to update because it wouldn’t connect to the network anymore.  A quick download, … Continue reading →

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Spooler SubSystem App has stopped working

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Every time I boot my machine, I get the following: Of course “Check online for a solution (recommended) doesn’t seem to do anything.  When I check in Services the Print Spooler service is stopped. The workarounds I can find via … Continue reading →

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Huh?

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I was just installing Cygwin on my new Vista laptop, and at the end, I got this message: Of course the “What settings are applied?” link was less than helpful.  

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Live Mesh

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally got Live Mesh working on my Mac, my phone, and my fileserver.  I’m waiting on a new laptop for work, so I haven’t installed there yet. I have to say  this is very cool.  At the very basic, … Continue reading →

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mesh.com

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

With the new availability of the Mac client, I’m going to try Live Mesh again.  I was able to get logged in to my account, and download the Mac client.  I’m getting an error trying to log in, but I … Continue reading →

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New Tablets coming with Vista?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

JK (and other’s I’m sure) have been talking about this new special edition Tablet PC that Microsoft/Asus have cooked up.  Apparently this is a limited run, and won’t make it into production.  It does make you wonder if there will … Continue reading →

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Note to Self – Vista Editions

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Only Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate can join a Windows domain.  link The big differences between Business and Ultimate are: Media Center capabilities Bitlocker Drive Encryption Windows DVD Maker  

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User Profile Error in Application log

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Log Name:      ApplicationSource:        profsvcDate:          3/29/2006 9:13:03 PMEvent ID:      1521Task Category: NoneLevel:         ErrorKeywords:      ClassicUser:          LOBRECHT\rlobrechtComputer:      CHARLIEBROWNDescription:Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will … Continue reading →

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Fast

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Check out this download speed:  

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