Turn off Hibernation in Windows Vista (Build 5231)

1. Click Start >  Run

2. Type CMD then press Enter

3. Type the following command "powercfg -h off" without quotes of course

4. Press Enter

Aero Glass and Tablets

From Hilton Locke

 

Qoute:

"I got my first peek at a Tablet running Aero Glass yesterday. Wow! Considering that it’s currently all visual effect and not really worth anything other than eye candy, it was hardly worth the effort/expense involved to make this particular Tablet run Glass, but then, that’s a practical issue and Vista is destined to get people to buy new machines with Vista preloaded, Glass turned on, etc. Existing mobile PCs in general won’t be able to run Glass. Period. End of story.

For the majority of folks who are running productivity software, surfing the web, sending email, chatting on IM, it won’t make a darn bit of difference to your experience with Vista whether you have Glass or not. Go on ahead and load Vista on your Transmeta or P3-ULV CPU machines. I dare you to run Vista on your 256MB or 512MB maximum portables. Just don’t think that you’ll be happy about it.

Read the rest here

Also: PDC build 5219 of Vista and Tablet PCs

Short one today, as I’m preparing for a short trip to Germany to visit some execs at SAP.

A few people have asked in various forums whether PDC build 5219 will run/install on their Tablets. I can say with confidence that we’ve tested the majority of first-, second- and third-generation Tablets with Vista and there are very few blocking issues with running Vista on your Tablet.

NEC Tablets were all the rage when they were available and we haven’t had the greatest of luck at getting specimens for our lab. I hear they’re no longer available in the US.

Motion Computing m1300 units require a BIOS update to enable installing Vista. This bug didn’t affect the m1200, m1400 or LE1600 models though. Lucky me, I use an m1300 as my mail machine. Thank goodness I’ve been able to test the BIOS update and it works well, no instabilities to report. Unfortunately, I don’t think the update is available publicly, but you should know about it so you don’t waste your time trying to install Vista on an m1300.

Read the rest here

Re-Visiting Vista – Setting higher resolutions than 800 by 600

From Chris Pirillo

 

Qoute:

"I’m not sure if this is for public consumption, but I’ve learned about a workaround for my Windows Vista build 5219 LCD resolution hiccup (wherein the screen won’t slide past 800×600). I’ve confirmed through a new digital friend that this registry hack indeed works for our laptop, the IBM Thinkpad T41p:

1. Run REGEDIT
2. Locate HKLM \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Video \ (BLAHBLAH) \ 0001, where (BLAHBLAH) is a GUID with a whole bunch of keys under it
3. Change the value with DALRULE_GETLCDFAKEEDID to 0
4. Reboot

Read more here

Aero Glass and Tablets.

From Random Elements

 

Qoute:

"Hilton Locke has blogged that he has seen his first Tablet running Aero Glass, but he won’t tell us which it is. All he says is "Considering that it’s currently all visual effect and not really worth anything other than eye candy, it was hardly worth the effort/expense involved to make this particular Tablet run Glass".

 

So, is he talking about swapping out the graphics chip in some way? Or could he just be talking about editing the registry?

 

As you are most probably aware, Aero effects can be overridden by registry keys located here:

 

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/DWM

 

Read the entire procedure to enable Aero Glass on your Tablet here

Also check out the updates:

Glass on a Tablet – Update.
Glass on a HP tc1100.

ISO recorder powertoy for Windows Vista by Alex Feinman

From Alex Feinman

 

ISO recorder powertoy by Alex Feinman (http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm) is now available for Windows Vista.

It is version 3 and can be found at: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/Vista.htm and this is the download link:
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/download/ISORecorderLH.zip

Thanks to Carlos Atashian for the info

Fix for “Load Driver Bug” Windows Vista BUILD 5219

By Jonathan Tigner

 

After many hours of searching, I believe I have obtained the solution to the woes of everyone who can’t get Vista 5219 installed due to the infamous "Load Driver" bug. I’ve just gotten 5219 up and running using this
workaround. I’ve only tested it on the x86 build so far, but the following process should be the same for the x64 build.

Boot into setup from the Vista DVD.
Proceed through the various setup screens as usual until you get to the screen with the various harddrives and the "Load Driver" button (i.e., Where do you want to install Windows?). At this screen, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt.

You’ll need to use the command prompt to find 2 things:
        1. The drive letter of the DVD drive containing the Vista DVD
        2. The path to the location of your 3rd-party storage driver(s) on whatever media they’re located on.

The easiest way to find these paths is to open Notepad (notepad.exe) at the commandline, go to File | Open, then click Computer on the dialog’s breadcrumb bar to get a view of all your (currently available) drives.
Alternatively, you can do a "dir" on various drive letters until you get what you’re looking for.

After you have both paths, exit notepad (if necessary) and go back to the commandline. You can use Alt-Tab if it has moved out of view.

At the commandline type:
<DVD Drive Letter>:\drivers\DPInst.exe /PATH <Drivers Disk Drive Letter>:\<Driver Files Path>

In my case, my DVD Drive was on G: and my storage drivers were on a USB key in H:\i386\

So at the commandline, I typed:
G:\drivers\DPInst.exe /PATH H:\i386\

/PATH is a switch telling DPInst.exe you are giving it a directory path. It is not a variable, so don’t replace it.

After you execute DPInst.exe, a Driver Wizard will appear. Click Next, and it will show that the storage driver you just added was installed. Click Finish. If you have other storage drivers to load, repeating this process
should work (I just had one). After you finish with the wizard, click "Refresh" on the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen. The harddrives that required the storage driver(s) should now appear in the
list. Continue installing Vista as normal and I hope this solution works well for everyone.

PDC 2005: Windows Vista [Build 5219] Tips & Tricks

From Tim Sneath

 

Qoute:

"I’ve been collating a few notes on installing the PDC05 "The Goods" discs that were distributed to attendees. Hopefully these tips will help get you started. I’ll be updating this list based on reader comments or as new issues are discovered.

Installing Windows Vista

• To get the best experience of Windows Vista, install it on a separate partition rather than attempting to run it within Microsoft Virtual PC. If you’re still feeling adventurous, we’ve made available an unsupported, interim release of Virtual Machine additions that supports Windows Vista (the additions included in-box with Virtual PC 2004 SP1 are incompatible).
• In general, there’s better driver support for desktops than for laptops.
• To enable glass, you’ll need an LDDM driver, at least 64MB of discrete video memory and DirectX 9 support in hardware.
• A number of Dell and other laptops have Broadcom 440x integrated network cards. The Windows XP driver for this card works on Windows Vista, but it will cause a blue screen crash on machines with more than 1GB memory. To resolve this problem, edit the boot.ini file to add a /maxmem=1024 switch for the Windows Vista partition. This will reduce the available memory for this partition to 1GB. Alternatively, you can of course disable the network driver."

Read the other Tips and Tricks here

Windows Vista BETA 1 – Quick Tips 3 by Josh Phillips

From Josh Phillips

 

Qoute:

"We should see the PDC build next week which is rumored to be 5219, so one last set of quick tips for Windows Vista Beta 1…

How to install IIS on Windows Vista Beta 1

Windows Vista Beta1 shipped with all the optional components installed. so, all you need to do is change the “World Wide Web Publishing Service” from disabled to Automatic and start the service.

Read the rest here

Windows Vista – Quick Tips 2 by Josh Phillips

From Josh Phillips

 

Qoute:

"Here are several more tips for Windows Vista Beta1.

1.) I can’t find my Windows Vista machine by browsing? Yep, Microsoft decided to disable the browse service in Windows Vista. This is common in most enterprises, but the first time they made it the default. You should use the IP address. You could also edit the host file to enable name resolution.

Check out the other tips here.

Very useful I say for Vista users, the first tip I say is a life saver.

Windows Vista Beta 1 – Quick Tips 1

From Josh Phillips

 

Qoute:

"Here are a couple of quick tips for those of you running Windows Vista Beta 1.

1.) A user is logged on and they have left the lab (you are running this in a "lab", right?).
Currently there isn’t an obvious way to log the user off. If you use the Windows+L key you will be able to get back to a Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen and log on. Then you could use task manager, select the users tab, then select the user and click logoff.

 

Check out the other 2 tips here