Comments on: How I Cope with (all this) Vista Business: Services http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/ Everything you never wanted to read about... and less! Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:32:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/comment-page-1/#comment-53 admin Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:12:27 +0000 http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/#comment-53 Well, I'm a business owner, a web developer, and an all-around computer nerd. I like to try new things, and Vista hasn't been as bad as the stories lead you to believe. BUT, the key thing, which is the next part of my fantastical multi-part vista adoption blog, is turning off User Access Control, doing away with all the Cancel/Allow crap. You mentioned the Wireless security warnings. I actually do like it. I travel a lot with my Dell XPS, going from coffee shop, to client's office, and back home. I enjoy the "public place, home, etc" security question because it allows me to easily switch between different firewall security options (turning on file sharing on more secure networks, and walling myself in at a local coffee shop with free wireless internet.) The overall goal is, of course, to transition to my Ubuntu install however. I'm only in Vista because, while on a client site billing them hourly, i don't want to have to figure out how to do something, and Windows is quite native to me as I've been at it since the very beginning. Well, I’m a business owner, a web developer, and an all-around computer nerd. I like to try new things, and Vista hasn’t been as bad as the stories lead you to believe. BUT, the key thing, which is the next part of my fantastical multi-part vista adoption blog, is turning off User Access Control, doing away with all the Cancel/Allow crap.

You mentioned the Wireless security warnings. I actually do like it. I travel a lot with my Dell XPS, going from coffee shop, to client’s office, and back home. I enjoy the “public place, home, etc” security question because it allows me to easily switch between different firewall security options (turning on file sharing on more secure networks, and walling myself in at a local coffee shop with free wireless internet.)

The overall goal is, of course, to transition to my Ubuntu install however. I’m only in Vista because, while on a client site billing them hourly, i don’t want to have to figure out how to do something, and Windows is quite native to me as I’ve been at it since the very beginning.

]]> By: Travel With Laptop http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Travel With Laptop Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:56:37 +0000 http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/#comment-52 I agree with the faithfull employee. An upgrade to Vista on a business laptop is not an upgrade. Try travelling with it. The wifi internet signal gives off all kind of secuity warnings when you try to hook up. A real increase in productivity if I cannot connect to wi fi at all. Hotel / motel wireless is inconsistent enougn and hard enough sometimes to connect to without adding stumbling blocks to the whole process. Often the laptop can be wiped out. Buy an XP liscence. Install the drivers from the motherboard site. Either you or someone with the skills and willing to do the work can do it. Sometimes if the laptop is very new the wifi can present a problem though. A third party card can be used in the pcmcia slot at the worst. Travel with a laptop and motel wi fi is essential to me as a business traveller. I do not need the aggrevation of Vista added to the mix. I agree with the faithfull employee. An upgrade to Vista on a business laptop is not an upgrade. Try travelling with it. The wifi internet signal gives off all kind of secuity warnings when you try to hook up. A real increase in productivity if I cannot connect to wi fi at all. Hotel / motel wireless is inconsistent enougn and hard enough sometimes to connect to without adding stumbling blocks to the whole process.
Often the laptop can be wiped out. Buy an XP liscence. Install the drivers from the motherboard site. Either you or someone with the skills and willing to do the work can do it. Sometimes if the laptop is very new the wifi can present a problem though. A third party card can be used in the pcmcia slot at the worst.
Travel with a laptop and motel wi fi is essential to me as a business traveller. I do not need the aggrevation of Vista added to the mix.

]]> By: admin http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/comment-page-1/#comment-51 admin Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:25:08 +0000 http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/#comment-51 Well, like I said above, I definitely agree with you, but I ordered Vista on this laptop and stuck it out. It's really not that bad anymore. But keep reading, If you follow the recommendations I lay out over the next few days, it basically runs like XP with some graphical modifications. Well, like I said above, I definitely agree with you, but I ordered Vista on this laptop and stuck it out. It’s really not that bad anymore. But keep reading, If you follow the recommendations I lay out over the next few days, it basically runs like XP with some graphical modifications.

]]> By: A Faithful Employee http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/comment-page-1/#comment-50 A Faithful Employee Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:11:31 +0000 http://sproif.com/2008/03/17/how-i-cope-with-all-this-vista-business-services/#comment-50 The best advice i can give for companies is to stay as far away from Vista as possible An upgrade to Vista is not an upgrade The best advice i can give for companies is to stay as far away from Vista as possible
An upgrade to Vista is not an upgrade

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