Saturday, March 3, 2007

Vista Business

It's been a while since I've blogged mainly because work has kept me busy with exciting new technology, which has been ClickOnce, and some other things.

I've been running Vista on my home pc for about a month now. I started out with a 3.0 Ghz Dell, 1GB RAM, Geforce 6600 GT graphics card. I have upgraded to 3GB RAM and added a 2GB flash drive to take advantage of the Ready Boost feature, which works decent in my opinion. My Windows Experience Index started at 4.2 pre-RAM upgrade, and strangely enough it remains at 4.2 post-upgrade, but the performance of my computer improved drastically. I must admit I didn't fully explore all the options to speed up Vista by turning off certain features, but then again I wasn't too interested because I needed a way to justify buying more RAM right?? All-in-all I'm happy with Vista and the Office 07 suite. This blog is even being posted from Word 2007, which is much better than using the tiny rich text editor that blogger offers.

Some small projects I have on the plate are

  1. My printer is setup directly to my desktop, I want to be able to print from my laptop via the wireless connection. I tried this once but had trouble.
  2. Fix my Snap Server. It works I think, I just need to perform a hard reset and reconfigure it.
  3. Setup an exchange server – I'm waiting on some old AMD equipment I will be using to build this.