Category Archives: Vista

A better desktop with RocketDock and Vista Start Menu

Sitting in front of a computer about 80% of your working day it is important that your work environment – that is your desktop – is both visually pleasing and functional. Having switched to Windows Vista not too long ago … Continue reading

What’s Your Take on the New Microsoft Ad?

So Microsoft has finally rolled out the first part of their new $300 million ad campaign set to regain the trust in the brand as well as put the breaks on the success Apple has acieved with their more and … Continue reading

Mac vs. PC – Let The Flame Wars Begin

Mac is not better than PC. It’s just different. If you think otherwise you really need to check your sources. I’ve tried to stay out of the moronic Mac vs. PC debackle as much as I can but a conversation … Continue reading

Installing and Booting Vista from a USB Flash Drive

My brother recently had to swap hard drives in his ThinkPad. Seeing as his fancy IBM doesn’t have a disc drive, he needed to figure out a different way of installing Vista on the machine after the swap. Now like … Continue reading

Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 on Windows Vista

Upgrading your OS isn’t always a walk in the park and there has been a lot of chatter on the web about Windows Vista screwing up older software and causing all sorts of problems. As a result many people are … Continue reading

Vista Whoas and Woes

Finally, after 4 years of hard work, one of our trusted workstations finally gave in and decided to die on us. I guess the pre-Core 2 Duo Prescott processor couldn’t handle the workload any more (running PhotoShop CS2, Premiere CS2, … Continue reading

Networking problem with Windows Vista

I haven’t posted here in a while – too much work (which you should check out btw: Second Expression-only site is up and running – www.naturescarpet.com). More on that later – I promise. Anyways. A couple of days ago my … Continue reading