Friday, August 22, 2008

Vista users rush for SP1, XP owners dawdle on SP3

This article appears on the ComputerWorld web site today.

I have both Vista and XP machines and am holding off on both until later in this year.

Vista users rush for SP1, XP owners dawdle on SP3

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Wi-Fi Tweaks for Speed Freaks

For those of you who have played around with wi-fi for some time now, you may find something useful in this Computerworld article.

Here's a pdf for you: Wi-Fi Tweaks for Speed Freaks

or for ease of following links within the article, go straight to the Computerworld Article by clicking here.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Windows XP Service Pack 3

A customer asked me the other day about SP3. I think it was in my May 29 blog post that I recommenced against installing it and showed you how to block it from being downloaded.

My position on this has not changed. I have not installed it on any of my machines, and have only installed it on one customer's machine. I am giving it a little more time, and will probably install it on my machines before the end of the year.

There are no new bells and whistles that come with it, and it supposedly contains little more than all of the individual updates you and I have been installing along the way. Given that, and knowing that there were several problems caused by installing it, I will give it some more time.