Archive for June, 2007
Windows Vista – Doing a Clean Install with an Upgrade Version
There is a workaround for the silly way in which Vista checks to make sure that you are actually upgrading a previous version of Windows. I wrote about this previously, where I actually had to install Windows XP to use the 32 bit upgrade of Windows Vista after I had [Read More]
Vista Tips – Customizing the Send To Command
Alright, I went to add notepad and wordpad to my Send To folder like I always have for each of the previous operating systems. Thanks to the “simplified” (and admittedly cleaner) users folder and the disappearance of settings, I could not find the way to [Read More]
Windows Vista 64 Bit Downgrade to 32 Bit Woes
An alternate title for this post could be “How I managed to memorize my Vista key in one day.” In previous versions of Windows when you purchased the Upgrade version of the new operating system you could always just insert the CD of the previous version during [Read More]