Wictor Wilen

NVIDIA has released ForceWare drivers for Windows Vista RTM cont

When trying to install the latest NVIDIA ForceWare (97.46) drivers for Windows Vista RTM I ran into some troubles. First of all I downloaded English version which should be installed on a english Windows Vista Ultimate. This did not work at all. The setup exited and said nothing has changed - do you want to reboot? Then Windows Vista popped up an error dialog stating that I needed to download a fix for Age of Empires - duh!

Windows Vista

NVIDIA has released ForceWare drivers for Windows Vista RTM

Finally, NVIDIA WHQL ForceWare Release 95, version 97.46, is available for Windows Vista RTM (build 6000). It’s available for download at the NVIDIA website (x86 and x64). I have not yet tested it but the Release Notes states that support for overscan/underscan is not implemented in this release - not good, this is what I was expecting from this release, there are multiple things in the control panel not yet implemented (as they were in Windows XP). There are some bugs fixed and I hope the flickering when switching from the Desktop to Media Center is gone.

Windows Vista

Windows Vista Ultimate site with extras launched

Microsoft has launched a special site for Windows Vista Ultimate, windowsultimate.com. The site will contain the Ultimate Extras (not available until public launch in late january), recommended Vista Ultimate Links and hardware and some Team blogs. Announced extras so far are: DreamScene - animated background in Windows Vista Enhancements to BitLocker and EFS Texas Hold’em poker game

Virtual Server

Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate available now!

This new year starts great! Virtual PC 2007 is now available as a release candidate on Microsoft Connect. Usage of wireless network cards is now on by default and audio works in Vista.

Personal

Happy new year!

Happy new year to all of you and thanks to all readers of my blog. The number of readers is increasing and I hope it will continue on the other side of the bell tolls tonight. See you in 2007!

Internet Explorer

msfeedicon utility 1.3 released

I have now updated msfeedicon to version 1.3 after a few days of running and some feedback. The major issue corrected in this version is that the application looses connection to the Windows RSS platform after a few hours of running, this problem is in all previous versions. You can find the new version here.

.NET

New Microsoft XPS Essentials Pack 1.0 - beta 2 released

Microsoft yesterday released the second beta of the Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack 1.0 (build 5715). The pack contains the following: XML Paper Specification (XPS) Viewer XPS metadata and thumbnail handlers for Windows Explorer XPS rich-preview provider XPS IFilter You need Windows XP SP2 or later and the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 to be installed on your system.

Internet Explorer

msfeedicon utility 1.1 released

I had just finished msfeedicon 1.0 when I decided to make an update, version 1.1, with some functionality I would like to see and some bugfixes. This 1.1 update contains: New feature: Refresh feeds option in the context menu New feature: greenish icons when the RSS platform downloads/refreshes feeds Update: better icons Bug fix: correct number of unread posts when a feed is removed You can download the update here, hope you like it…

Windows XP

Announcing: msfeedicon utility

For a while I have been annoyed that there is no good notification in Internet Explorer 7 when you have unread posts in your subscribed feeds. You have to have the Favorites Center opened to be notified of any feed updates, which may take up useful space on your screen. Therefore I created a small utility that takes advantage of the Windows RSS platform and shows an icon in the system tray which notifies you of any unread feed posts - called msfeedicon.

SharePoint

Office 2007 icons to SharePoint 2003 cont.

A few months back I showed how you could add the new Office 2007 icons to a SharePoint 2003 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 site. The Right Stuff has made a complete post on how to add the complete set of icons for the different Office 2007 applications. The post also contains a few different sets of Office 2007 icons so you can choose the one that suits your site best.