Archive for the 'Vista' Category


Vista is defiant!

Ok, so i’ll admit… I tried to go back to XP this weekend.
No luck though. No windows.old file to speak of. Now i need to hunt down someone willing to let me borrow a USB CD drive I think to just do the restore. Ugh. No joy in Mudville.
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Summer, Vista, Q1b, what does it mean?

Well let’s have a look at my Q1b and what i’ve got going on this summer. I’ll be teaching at a summer camp. Should be fun, should be a great place for a UMPC? Well here’s where i’ll disagree. Maybe moving to Vista on my Q1b was a bad idea? [...]

Why I run Vista

Ok, so earlier today I was talking to Chippy from UMPC Portal about why I ran Vista on my Q1b. He was asking me name my “top 3 Vista features” and I was having some trouble. Well among other reasons because a Q1b with only 512MB of RAM isn’t the best Vista machine. [...]

What’s this new driver do?

So this morning Steve from UMPC Portal pointed me to some new drivers from VIA for the Q1b.  After a bit of time I got the drivers installed.  Long story short, I can’t tell what they do?  I think this goes back to something Dennis had said a few weeks back.  So we’re trying this [...]