Winnipeg Experts

Well it’s been a few days that I finally started my Vista test ride. I must say the new OS from Microsoft has had a nice face lift done to it. It is by far the most beautiful OS I’ve ever seen. I was worried that my machine being a Dell P4 with a low end video card might not be able to handle the new Aero interface. Well I can pleasantly say that the machine can handle pretty much anything I’ve thrown at it. I must say the only thing where I see a bit of lag is when you close an application and the open programs slide to the left in the task bar. I’ve also installed CA’s antivirus since they were giving away a free 1 yr subscription. So far it seems to be updating quite nicely and it hasn’t slowed my system down at all.

There are a few things that I am a bit worried about. Backwards compatibility has always been something that Microsoft has done a great job at and I think is the main reason why as much as people hate MS, they can always use that old program without fear that the new os might not run it. Sorry Mac and Linux fan!

This time around I noticed that Games like Unreal Tournament no longer have the option of OpenGL. I’m thinking this is more of Microsofts doing then that of the nVidea Drivers. Why I am bringing this up is for what ever reason, I can’t play Unreal at 1280×1024 with Direct X. I’ve always just switched to OpenGL and I could. One more thing I have notice in Unreal is the load times in Vista are soooo much longer. Not sure what that is all about.

 Another thing to note is a few games that could be “manually” copied from one machine to the next no longer works and bombs out with some DirectX 9 error. I am going to try and install the game from CDs and see if the problem is rectified.

Other then these few issues I’ve got to say that I love the new 3D program flip. You can do this by hitting: Windows Key + TAB. The old Alt-Tab is also there with a nice improvement over XP version with out the Alt-TAB powertoys feature.

I will make sure to keep posting about my success and failures with Vista.

I found a really cool program called Starter 5.6.2.0. I have included the file here in my blog. The file can be used to see if there might be any malware on your system.

As you have known I have been working on my technology FAQ. Because of the depth of the resource I will be selling subscriptions to the software for $500 per year. You will be able to print of the each FAQ or save them as PDF. My goal is to have everything from “how to assign permissions to web folders” to “How to trouble shoot network programs”. Let me know if you would like to have a demo of the FAQ. You can reach the FAQ here if you have a password.

If you can

http://www.winnipegexperts.com/private

Check out this FREE opensource program

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

I am working on my MCSE I wanted a way of studying the information and also helping other people out. My FAQ should be a good technical resource for everything to do with Winfows, Linux, and Web Programming. Right now I am really just building the database and I will be starting with the MCSE stuff unless I come accross some other “gothcha” in the other 2 areas.

Let me know if you like program.

You can find a link to the FAQ HERE

Well here’s a great tool you can download. It looks and feels very much like the whole MSOffice Suite. Over 95% of it’s features are located in this program. A nice added bonus that Office 2003 doesn’t have out of the box is the ability to save it’s files as acrobat reader files. (Yes you can even insert hyper links into them unlike other programs like PDFcreator)

 Heres the link for OpenOffice

I recommend “Filezilla” if you need to do any FTPing. It’s small, fast and free! Can’t get much better then that combo. In fact… I’d called it a supersized combo

Here’s the link to Filezilla 

Let me know what you think of the new layout of the site or any improvement you’d like to see. My site is slowly crawling up the ladder in web searches. Once I am done I am going to write a program that will automatically tell google of new pages I have created Once confirmed to be working I will sell this as a service to my customers for $2 a month.

 I’ve gotten so many requests on how to change the Windows XP Start button, I’m going to teach you how to hack it to pieces manually.