Daniel Wissa

Here goes my first post in 2007. Happy New Year to you all. I was recently reading this post on Joel Spolsky’s blog about the number of shutdown options available in Windows Vista. Even though they are quite a few and can be narrowed down like he suggests. I thinkI have a better idea! I have been using Vista for almost a year now but for some reason I never thought about this. But for me I tend to shut down my computer most of the time if I’m not using it and to do so I…

Vista has finally arrived! See hereand here…

I’m finally back up and running again on Vista with only a few more software to install. I’ve gone through a PC rebuild recently mainly because I needed a new Hard Disk. It feels good to be back on Vista. I’m on build 5472 which makes me one build behind now. It’s hard to catch up with the downloads! and I decided I’ll wait for RC1 before my next upgrade. Here are some of my thoughts. – Installation time felt a little long still. From start to finish took a little over an hour. – The non…

So have you been using Vista for a while now and are sick of all those security dialog warnings from UAC. Well you can change that and disable warnings on things you know you executed hence reducing the habbit of auto-clicking continue. Mauricio posts onhow to do this. Nice……

I’ve previously blogged about having some trouble getting ASP.NET and IIS working on Windows Vista. I dont know if I was doing something wrong when trying to set them up, but I had trouble with Vista Builds 5308 and 5342. On the first I couldnt even get IIS to install and on the second I managed to get IIS setup but had problems with building and running ASP.NET 2 applications. Well now I’ve got Windows Vista Beta 2 installed on my machine and I installed VS, WinFX Beta2..etc yesterday and it all finally works… Time…

Following on from my previous post about the new changes in Microsoft Office and Windows Vista. The post by Leonie proves my point. When you are soo used to something it is hard to change to something new. So the question is, will this major change push people away from Windows? While it provided a good incentive for Nic and Leonie to consider a MacBook. I think the answer is still ‘No’. For the normal user it is no becauseagain the problem of learning something different. Now for Leonie maybe she already uses Mac so the transition will not…

If you are not sure whether or not your pc hardware can utilize the full potential of Vista. The hardware requirements have been specified here.When I first installed Vista a couple of months ago I was missing the AERO graphics as my Video Card did not support WDDM … but I couldn’t resist not having it showing so I went and bought a new graphics card. Hopefully not many people will need to do that!…

It’s been a while since I last posted but here I am posting again. I’ve deliberately delayed posting till I get something done (which I still cant do) but now decided to post anyway. I’ve been using Windows Vista now since build 5308 was out and as I mentioned in some of my previous posts I am generally very happy with my experiences. Recently I’ve tried to setup WinFX, VS 2005 …etc on Vista and here is where I am having some very annoying issues. I can get WinFX working just fine on Vista but ASP.…