Winnipeg Experts

Well I’ve just used Vista’s special speed boost feature and I am finding it really does speed up your machine!

I am running a very fast machine and I’ve found that ReadyBoost really helps with some of the more demanding games. Things that ran like silk ran even better with ReadyBoost enabled. To enable ReadyBoost you must have a flash drive that can operate at a fast enough rate and you need to enable the ReadyBoost in Vista. You can do this a couple of ways.

1. When you first plug in your device “ReadyBoost” is an option.
2. If you want to enable it after the fact you must right click the drive and select propperties. Go to the ReadyBoost tab.

Well there have been four XP pc’s that I’ve upgraded that the Internet Explorer Icon goes missing. This is only after upgrading to version 7. To fix the Icon missing you must follow these steps:

Go to START - Run

type “regedit”

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\DefaultIcon

If your icon is missing the default icon properties will look like this:

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe,-7.

What it should be is…
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe,-32528

Reboot. Your icon will now be back.

With Windows Vista you can now flip through several windows very quickly and know exactly what is open at any given moment. You can access the 3D flip by holding down the Windows Key + hitting tab. Each time you hit tab while holding down the Windows key will show you each of your windows on the screne similar to this:

There is a new feature that is part of Vista Ultimate called “DreamScene” You have to use Windows update to download it through the “ultimate Extras”. There is the Dream Scene and the Dream Scene pack. The DreamScene pack comes with 4 moving desktops. Really they are just mpeg or WMA files. In fact you can use any MPEG or WMA file and right click it. You will be given the option of using it as a DreamScene. It works great with motion clips without sound. If the clip has sound you will prob get pretty annoyed with the same looping sound. Once you have a DreamScene dekstop you will wonder how you’d ever go back to a plain old static desktop. To select a DreamScene desktop you can right click your desktop and hit personalize. Click on Desktop background. From the drop down menu select DreamScene content. If you have downloaded all the DreamScene content already you will see something like this:

Well I haven’t had a lot of time since I’ve been very busy with both of my jobs. I did manage to get some personal things done on my home computer. I am now running Vista as my primary OS with XP as the second OS.

One thing that I love about Windows Vista is that the OS is able to under stand what games I have on my computer. It is not only is able to show the icon but it also is able to dynamically download the picture of the game’s box. Since I mostly rip all my games into ISO’s and then run them with Daemon tool I really appreciate being able to see game’s box art. I went as far as just copying a game to my main partition and then ran the executable. The Games section automatically understood that the program I was running was a game and it propperly added the Box art. In the comming weeks I will be going over some of the really cool features of Vista. Stay tuned for next time when I will be going over Vista Ultimate’s “DreamScene”.

Winnipeg Experts have been contracted out to upgrade all the Behr Kiosks at the Home Depot in Winnipeg. We are very excited about this new partnership and look forward to upgrading their Kiosks next week.

Several people have asked me how to do this. It is a very easy command. The command is:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt