Category Archives: Windows Vista

Ricoh MP W2400 with Windows Vista

One of my clients uses this wide format printer. After switching to Vista on his work station he had intermittent problems printing. The print job would do everything normally, but simply would not print or show up in the queue, … Continue reading

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Vista Robocopy for Backup

TechRepublic has an excellent video, and a text article.  I have been slow in moving toward Vista, but I now have a few installations to deal with. The basis of this video and article is that often one wants to … Continue reading

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Installing Vista over a Damaged XP

My mother’s computer slowed down and eventually became unusable after upgrade to Windows XP SP3.  One option, of course, was to remove SP3, but we couldn’t even get things working well enough for a reinstallation.  (Note that I’m typing this … Continue reading

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Will Vista become Standard?

Jason Hiner thinks not. The problem is likely less that Vista is bad, than that it is new and different and just a little clumsy for people who are accustomed to Windows XP.  The idea of resolving security issues by … Continue reading

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