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Just upgraded to Vista

Posted in Business, Microsoft, Tech, Windows Vista by Jared Kim on February 3rd, 2007

I just upgraded from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium. Aside from a few software incompatablities, I’m really enjoying my experience with Vista so far (been using it for ~2 days).

A few things I like:

  • New Aero interface: transparency is sexy
  • New Control Panel: easily shows me common things I need to fiddle with
  • Built-in Search: Very snappy and lets me find what I’m looking for in a few seconds
  • Flip 3D: Basically a flashy 3D version of Alt-Tab. I don’t know how practical it is, but it’s defintely nice eye candy

A few issues I’ve had since upgrading:

  • TortoiseSVN’s latest stable build pops up an error about Explorer. Just download a Nightly Build instead and you’re fine.
  • I really didn’t like Vista’s new User Access Control security feature. I can understand how it would help a mainstream user  from destroying his/her computer, but for me it was more a nuisance than a useful feature.
  • When running Trillian Pro, Vista reverts your Aero Glass interface Aero Basic. Read this thread for a quick fix.

That’s pretty much it. My advice for people who haven’t upgraded yet: Unless you REALLY want to play with the new flashy features, just stick with XP. There aren’t enough essential features to warrant an immedate upgrade. Just get it pre-installed on your next new PC purchase.

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Fixed my IE7 install problem

Posted in Microsoft, Tech by Jared Kim on October 23rd, 2006

If anyone is having IE7 install problems mentioned in my last post, try running the installer in Windows safe mode /w networking.

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I’d really like to try IE7…

Posted in Business, Microsoft, Tech by Jared Kim on October 20th, 2006

…if it would install. Unfortuantely, the installer runs fine and I restart my computer only to find IE6 still there. I do some snooping on the Microsoft site and it tells me to look at ie7.log:

26.094: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: c:\433667ce6599b3d51811c68d\
26.094: Num Ticks for Copying files : 11391
30.235: DoRegistryUpdates:UpdSpInstallFromInfSection Failed for ProductInstall.GlobalRegistryChanges.Install error: 0×5
30.235: INF_REGISTRY Failed
30.235: DoInstallation:DoRegistryUpdates failed
30.282: Access is denied.
30.282: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Select ‘OK’ to undo the changes that have been made.
30.282: Starting process:  C:\WINDOWS\ie7\spuninst\spuninst.exe /~ -q -z
53.219: Software Update Rollback has completed with return code 0xbc2.  This rollback requires a reboot.
53.219: Internet Explorer 7 installation did not complete.

Internet Explorer 7 has been partially updated and may not work properly.
53.219: Update.exe extended error code = 0×5

I guess I’ll stick with Firefox.

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