Vista SP1 RTM available, Yahoo to reject microsoft bid.
Feb 10, 2008 Tech
So Vista SP1 RTM has been released on Connect, and Windows Update apparently. Its quite likely that it’ll be available/leaked on torrent/http link if it isnt already. I should reinstall vista sometime and test it out.
update:
“Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1. If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1. Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.”
Im not sure if i have “the driver”, but I’m getting it from another source anyway 
in other news, yahoo is planning to reject the bid from microsoft, calling it a “hostile takeover bid”. I lol @ that. tbh, i dont see yahoo lasting much longer, the only dominant thing they own right now is flickr, and they cant survive on that forever. I dont know anyone who uses thier webmail. and there isnt really anything special about thier homepage either imo. Since Yahoo messenger compatibility has now been added to wlm, there isnt really any reason to use the Messaging client. I dont think many people use Yahoo ! widgets any more but who knows. I guess only time will tell.
Tags: bid, microsoft, ms, sp1, update, vista, windows, yahoo
Vista news & Site updates, etc..
Sep 3, 2006 Other, Site News, Tech
Well its been a busy week in the vista camp, Pre RC1 was released a week or so ago, and was restricted to 100,000 downloads, although im not sure that was a problem in the end because i dont think that many people downloaded it, ive added some screenshots of it in the galleries anyways.. also a few days ago, RC1 itself was released on connect, so im just waiting for a publicly available download, which should be monday or tuesday, there was so short a time in between the two releases i wonder why i downloaded it really 
lucky i didnt burn it to disc, there are two different versions of this build, an x86 build for 32bit processors, this will probably be the most commonly downloaded when its available, then theres the x64 version for 64bit processors which has a restriction on intalling unsigned drivers, (i believe you have to do it in safe mode) and with there not being many x64 signed drivers available, its probably wiser to wait for more drivers to be released / signed. the ISO info is as follows
x86
vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD.iso
x64
vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x64fre_client-LR1CxFRE_EN_DVD.iso
Beta testers on connect can download it from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/windows/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=2887
Screenshots of RC1 will follow shortly.
I was going to write about the apple rumours i heard the other day about a new iPod and new Mac, but thats old news now and probably not true since ive not heard anymore about it. maybe apple are just getting better at damage control :p Although i did read they secretly upgraded thier mac minis which is cool.
As i mentioned earlier ive added a few pre rc1 shots to the galleries, theyre not very big pics though, sorry about that 
ive also added ome new babe galleries which ive had on my hard drive for a while and jut havent uploaded until now, well, a few days ago.
Hmm what else..
sorry for any typos and letters missing, this damn keybaord is annoying, its been doing it all night >.< and this wordpress thing is annoying too, it just wont use the WYSIWYG editor, no matter what i try grr, so sorry about the layout...anyways i'll probably uh, upgrade soon >.>
plus, might have a new default theme soon 
P
I met a cute girl last night at a party, unfortunatly shes married and has a kid lol, although she only looked about 23, she had a really nice, persona.. well, whatever, i was going to say personality, but that sounds way to cliche these days. heh.
Also happy birthday to my lil sis xx
edit: forgot to say the downloads section is under construction too…
A Solution to removing the OS boot menu after vista removal
Jun 30, 2006 Tech
So, you’ve installed vista, played around with it and its all great, new and good, but now your bored of it and want to reclaim your disk space back, so you boot into windows XP (by selecting it from the boot menu) and proceed to format the drive Vista is on. On rebooting you discover your boot menu still exists! what is one to do?! Well here for your please is a possible solution :p
- Turn on your PC
- Insert your XP CD, yes the one you install from
- Choose the option to go into the recovery console
- choose which installation you would like to “login” to, in most cases this will be “1″
- after typing that in, along with the administrator password, your at prompt similar to this:
C:\WINDOWS>
- your next step is to type either of the following commands: fixboot OR fixmbr
- once thats finished and you have a success message you can restart
Note: Choose to boot from CD if asked
The menu should now be gone and you should be booted into XP automatically
There may be other ways of fixing it, but this is the one ive, used.
Post any questions etc in the comments