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Free Up Disk Space in Windows Vista

Scott Hanselman has written a fantastic article about clearing the clutter on your disks . It's amazing how fast hard drives fill up nowadays, especially considering how big they are. The screenshot here is my primary disk on my main machine. I realized that 74GB was pretty small from the start ...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-21-2008
Improve Operating System Performance With a Swap Partition

A friend just filled me in on a performance tip I've never tried before, but it makes sense and I bet it works. This is a general performance tip that would apply to Vista, XP, Ubuntu, and all other operating systems out there. When installing a new operating system, create a small swap partition...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 10-03-2008
Your User Profile Was Not Loaded Correctly!

I removed my Vista machine from my domain and then deleted the domain users' directories of C:\Users. After re-adding my computer to the domain and logging back on as a domain user, it loads a temporary profile and displays this warning: "Your User Profile Was Not Loaded Correctly!" To...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 06-03-2008
TightVNC with Vista is SLOW

I'm using the TightVNC server on my desktop machine to burn disks remotely from my laptop. Microsoft's Remote Desktop will deny you access to your disk drives as a security precaution, so TightVNC is a good alternative, but it's painfully slow on Vista. I've set these options to improve...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 03-31-2008
Creating Toolbars in Vista

The way toolbars work has changed a little in Vista, for reasons unknown. You used to able to right click the start menu, create a new toolbar, and then drag that toolbar to any edge of the screen; top, left, right or back to the start menu. In Vista you can create the toolbar the same way but dragging...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 03-13-2008
Vista SP1 Fixed My USB Thumb Drive Issue

If there was only one thing I wanted from Vista's Service Pack 1, it was a USB driver fix so that I could actually use my usb thumb drives. This wasn't a problem most people saw, but I found others out there who encountered it too, and even after installing the latest motherboard drivers our...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 02-20-2008
Vista DRM Breaks TV Tuners After CPU Upgrade

I replaced my CPU last night while I was in there replacing the power supply and after rebooting I practically had to re-install all of the drivers for my USB peripherals and my video and tv tuner cards. After doing all of this, I was still receiving this same error 1 every couple of minutes, over and...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 02-09-2008
A whole bunch of Vista USB driver problems

My Vista Ultimate x64 box just doesn't get along with my USB hardware. I don't know if the problem is the motherboard, my PCI USB expansion board, my internal USB card reader, my usb flash drives or what. But I do know it started with the flash drives. It seemed like any type of flash drive ...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 01-07-2008
ECS Motherboard BIOS Flash with Vista x64

I've been seeing some instability in my system since switching to a 64-bit operating system. My desktop machine will re-boot or shutdown for no apparent reason every couple days. After signing back in, Windows reports a fatal system error and points to the CPU as the problem. So I download the BIOS...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-09-2007
Local Admin Account Disabled By Default In Vista

After a brief power outtage this weekend my desktop machine wouldn't connect to my network. It was being assigned a very strange IP address, it recognized my network as "unidentified", and it wouldn't connect to the net. I decided to remove it from the domain and after reboot at the...

Posted to Matt Williamson’s Blog (Weblog) by Matt Williamson on 12-04-2007

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