I’ve been using Windows 7 now (Build 7000) for about 2 weeks and am very happy with it. I still get some strange behavior now and again, but overall, it’s been very stable. I much prefer it to either XP or Vista. I do find some software I can’t easily get to work (which is no surprise), but if I really need it (like I do GoToMeeting), I usually figure out a way to make it work.
So, for GoToMeeting, if you launch it from their web site (http://www.gotomeeting.com) and simply say “Create Meeting”, you will get an error saying IE8 is not supported. I found that if I actually downloaded the GoToMeeting application from their web site, then move the application to my start bar and set the properties to be “Run As Vista” and “Run As Administrator”, I had success.
Hopefully, this will work for you.
Some Background
I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to their notebook computers. Every one of them raved about the magic this brought into their lives.
Well, after checking out the prices and performance, it seems that right now there are two classes of these drives. It seems there is a first generation drive that performs in the area of 15/40Mbs/sec and ones that perform in the 100/170Mbs/sec. To put this in perspective, when people refer to SATA/150 or SATA/300, the 150 and 300 are the Mbs/sec. With Vista resource manager, you can actually see for yourself how man Mbs/sec you are actually getting. Below is a screen shot showing that.
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I’ve been addicted to using multiple monitors for programming for many years now. Recently (through other MVP blogs), I’ve noticed people talking about using UltraMon as a "must have" if you use multiple monitors. Frankly, I couldn’t see how it could get much better, but after using it for just a couple days, I’m hooked! There are lots of features to the product that I don’t yet know about or have played with, but the ones I have used so far have been very nice. I’ll outline them here.
First, it’s really nice to be able use one picture to cover your complete desktop (in my case, three monitors). While in New Zealand in 2003 on a bike vacation, I took this panorama picture. I forget where it is, but if any of you know, please add it to the comments. Here is a picture of that picture.
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This is just too exciting not to share with the world so here it is. My base development system is a Quad Pentium with 8 Gig of ram running Vista-64 (recently update (with angst and worry I might add) from Vista-32). I’m running VMWare Workstation 6.02 software. So, just out of curiosity, I tried upping the amount of memory available to the VM to 4096 Megabytes. I expected to see at most 3000 Megabytes, but to my surprise, 3.67 Megabytes shows up as available.
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Yesterday, one of my friends who is still using XP asked me if there were any compelling reasons to switch to Vista. Well, I’ve been using Vista for so long, it’s hard to remember what I didn’t have before.
Today, while searching for email, it occurred to me this is one of those things (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong in the post comments). I can say "Start / Search as follows:
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Yesterday (May 8th 2007) I did a presentation at VSLive in Orlando Florida on Gadgets. Specifically Vista Sidebar Gadgets. On stage, I build a complete Sidebar Gadget from scratch that displays information for our upcoming Silicon Valley Code Camp. Actually, the site still refers to last year, but the web service interface has been updated to show the new date which likely will be October 27th, 2007.
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Series Theme
After going to many Microsoft shows and meetings and seeing all the cool new features in Vista, I finally decide to take the plunge. This plunge started around December 15th, and with all new technologies, the transition has been bumpy for me. My friend Richard Hundhausen who blogs at http://blog.hundhausen.com/ suggested I blog my experience for everyone’s benefit so here we go.
Feedback Welcome
All this Vista stuff is very new to me and I expect I’ll get things wrong in my posts. Please please please post comments on these posts with corrections and suggestions.
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