Vista

I'm going to get a little old school on you here today. Remember those crazy modem init strings? I bet you thought we were all done with those. Well, with Smart Phones that act like blue tooth modems, everything old is new again.

The problem that I ran into was that I had to specify my access point in the init string. Looking at the properties of the modem, the box where you enter the init string isn't available. Well, here's how you change it.

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If you're like me, you're constantly going to look at the offline folders file, outlook.ost, to see exactly how large your offline mail is. Or you may be looking to delete extend.dat, or any of the other cache files. Now, along comes Vista, and things are a little different. Well have no fear, it's not too hard to find.

I posted about Apple sneaking Mobile Me onto Windows computers in with an iTunes update. Well here's how to get rid of the applet in Windows.

Note: Although the item we’re uninstalling is called “Apple Mobile Device Support”, it’s only used for iPhones and the iPod Touch. If you have a regular iPod, then all of the drivers are already in Windows. This will not hurt your standard iPod.

Boy, Microsoft pulled a fast one!

Looking for ways to combat Apple's anti-Vista ads, Bill Veghte, chief of Microsoft's Windows unit, came up with the Mojave campaign.

He showed Microsoft's newest operating system, code named "Mojave", to several "Vista haters" and filmed their reactions. Turns out, more than 90% of them loved the new operating system.

So what is Mojave? Why, it's.................................... Vista. Of course.

Have you ran into a hotfix that your system needed, and you were wondering if it was included in Windows Vista SP1? I did, when I had some trouble installing a flash drive.