Archive for September, 2006

Lenovo Joins the Recall Fun

Lenovo is getting in on the smokin’ battery recall-a-thon:
IBM, Lenovo announce recall of 526,000 laptop batteries
Lenovo Recall information page:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/documen…

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Microsoft Releases New Vista Build 5728

Microsoft has made and updated RC1 build available to the public.  You can download build 5728 here:
Windows Vista RC1 update (5728), English 32-Bit Edition

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Is Paul Thurrott right this time?

I have just read Paul Thurrott’s article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1 and, although I don’t always agree with Paul’s assessments, I have to agree with him on many of the items that he raises here.  I hope that some of these can be resolved by the release of Vista.
For balance, here’s Paul’s […]

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shell: revealed

Not sure how long this has been up there, but I just discovered the really un-Microsoft community style site that the Windows Shell team has put up:
shell: revealed
Very nice!

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Watchen’ the Watcher: Mary Jo Foley leaves MicrosoftWatch

Well known Microsoft columnist Mary Jo Foley has left Ziff Davis publication MicrosoftWatch for ZDNet. Longhorn Blogs has the exclusive interview
Visit Mary Jo’s new column, All about Microsoft here.  Best of luck Mary Jo!

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Microsoft Launches on10 Site

Microsoft has launched it’s new channel9 style on10 site.  Check it out here:
http://on10.net/

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Lenovo ThinkPads have a drain?

ThinkPads have always set the standard for notebook computer design in the PC arena.  All of the ThinkPads that I have worked with have been great machines with design that shows innovation and attention to detail (except for that missing Windows key). 
I was amazed again when I cam across this post that showed that current […]

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Robocopy now part of Windows Vista

…also discovered via Tim Sneath’s blog…
I see that the Robocopy command line utility has been upgraded from a mere resource kit utility to a fully fledged member of \Windows\system32\.  Read Tim’s full post here.
I also have been using Robocopy for many years and drop it into the system32 folder of every new machine.  It is […]

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Windows Vista Secret : Open Command Prompt Here

Tim Sneath has posted a great Windows Vista tip:
Here’s a trick that I don’t think many people are aware of. Right-click on any folder on your Windows Vista machine while holding down the shift key. You’ll see an extra context-sensitive menu item there: Open Command Prompt here. Just click on this menu and a command […]

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SendTo: Secure Delete

I really dig Tristan’s post about creating a SendTo: Secure Delete command:
Useful Utilities for SendTo #1871615

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