VISTA: Observation GOTOMYPC install

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Interesting. I tried to install my GOTOMYPC on Frau’s Vista machine last night.

Using FIREFOX2, the install just hung. Using IE7, the install worked fine.

Huh?

And, when I tested connecting to it from my LUGGABLE with XP and FFOX2, everything worked fine.

So, maybe the Evil Empire still has some tricks up its sleeves.

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TECHNOLOGY: Getting back Frau’s game

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Frau has one game she likes. I bought it for her eons ago. Naturally it doesn’t work on Vista. Argh! Trek back to the developer. It’s site suggested running it in compatibility mode. Works. But now it times out as unregistered. Luckily I have our serial number. Back to the developers site, and download. Install. (Twice. Vista burped.) Register it by typing in a huge serial number. (Darn, I’m good got it right on the first try despite Dell’s pop up in the middle of things. Let see what goes wrong next.

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VISTA: Sounds like it has a time out

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Frau was playing a game and listening to a CD. (The only two applications I’ve qualified her for. ROFL!) She say that everything went dark. Tech Support (me) was closed for the night! So she just gave up. I asked her if she did anything. (Press the any key? Waste of time to ask users anything. They forget, They lie, They misreport.) Scheduling an on-site visit by tech support (Me!) tonight. Argh! Have to explain that “personal” part in “personal computing”. :-) Technically, it sounds like a keyboard timeout to save the monitor?

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VISTA: FIrst impressions

Monday, September 3, 2007

New machine for Frau. (Multiple motives)

* Out of the box, Vista found the home network. Second reboot, never found it after that.

* Killed the embedded wireless card. Used a Linksys WUSB54GC device. Needed new Vista drivers. But it’s working.

* Frau’s favorite game doesn’t do Vista. Argh!

Not for the faint of heart.

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