Ed starts a two part list of his favorite tips for tweaking Vista to work for him. The first part contains 5 tips that touch on installed programs, taskbar and desktop, backup, common tasks, and windows explorer. (more…)

As previously announced, Vista got 5 security updates yesterday. Three of them were ‘Critical’, while the other two were ‘Moderate’. In addition to those security updates, two non-security updates were released. One was for Media Center, the other for CEIP (Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program). (more…)

Mary Jo talks about people wanting to ‘upgrade’ their Vista license to XP, and how analysts are dropping Microsoft’s earnings estimates because of the flack Vista is getting. (more…)

Microsoft Windows Installer is a component of the Windows operating system that provides a standard foundation for installing and uninstalling software. This article describes all the new and improved features of Windows Installer 4.5, a minor update to Windows Installer 4.0. (more…)

Vista hasn’t escaped the need for security updates in the month of June. All together, five updates affect Windows Vista; three critical, and two moderate. All updates affect both 32 and 64-bit systems, and it doesn’t matter if you have SP1 installed or not. (more…)

Ed provides some details on how Search works on your Vista system, and why it shouldn’t be slowing your computer down. (more…)

Though earlier versions seemed to work fine, version 6.0.4 officially supports 32-bit and 64-bit Vista SP1. (more…)

If you have any Apple software installed, their updater may have prompted you to install Safari. Now, Safari has a security hole that can be triggered by visiting the wrong web page, and Apple has no plans to fix it. (more…)

Ed discusses an article from ExtremeTech that, while showing Vista is 16% faster than XP in the games tested, still tries to pooh pooh on Vista and not acknowledge the news. A caress with the left hand, a slap with the right! (more…)

Michael describes using VistaBootPro instead of bcdedit to get his dual boot configuration working again. (more…)