October 24, 2008 10:38 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
vsp1cln.exe,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista troubleshootingWhenever you install a service pack on a Windows machine, it’s not unusual for it to leave plenty of files strewn about the system disk in its wake. What’s unusual about Windows Vista SP1, however, is that it includes its own clean-up utility.
If you run it after performing an SP1 install it...
October 15, 2008 8:11 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
KB290301,
Revo Uninstaller,
Windows Installer Cleanup Utility,
Windows uninstaller,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista troubleshootingLike it or not, sometimes applications wind up on Vista desktops that have to go. Either they've been replaced with something different, newer, or better, or they never should have been there in the first place. Count yourself lucky if a program's uninstall utility does a thorough job of removing...
October 13, 2008 3:29 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Spyware Doctor,
Vista System Health Report,
Vista System Reliability Monitor,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista troubleshootingI recently stumbled across a hitherto unknown gem inside Windows Vista--to me, anyway. It's called a "System Health Report" and it provides a pretty comprehensive view of a Vista system's state, status, and current behavior. To my surprise it comes from the same facilities that support the System...
October 9, 2008 9:10 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Vista ACT,
Vista ACT resources,
Vista application compatibility,
Vista Application Compatibility Toolkit,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista troubleshootingFor the next couple of weeks, I'll be digging into issues related to application compatibility for organizations and enterprises considering the move to Windows Vista. For such outfits, one of the most important and pressing concerns that surround a migration has to be application compatibility,...
October 8, 2008 6:46 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
MS Technet Windows Client TechCenter,
Vista ACT,
Vista ACT resources,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista SP1,
Windows Vista troubleshootingIn a perfect world, IT professionals wouldn't have to worry about application compatibility issues: everybody would already have embraced the latest versions of Visual Studio (2008) and the .NET Framework (3.5), and all code would run on Vista seamlessly and unhindered. Yeah, right! In the real...
October 6, 2008 3:23 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Windows Update,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingEven in enterprise situations where IT professionals will disable Windows Update on desktop and server machines, in favor of staging updates to test machines in the background, and using their own deployment tools and techniques to roll them out, there will be occasional problems in downloading or...
October 1, 2008 9:53 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Microsoft Windows,
Process Explorer,
PSTools,
Russinovich,
Sysinternals,
Windows Vista,
Windows Vista troubleshootingFor today's blog, I take great delight in referencing a true Windows luminary's similar efforts at Microsoft. I'm talking about Mark Russinovich, who continues his efforts with Sysinternals tools and utilities, and anything...
September 29, 2008 7:32 PM
Posted by: Ed Tittel
Desktops,
Enterprise desktop,
Microsoft Windows,
SaaS,
Software as a Service,
Virtualization,
Vista Application Compatibility Toolkit,
Vista upgrade,
Vista Upgrade Advisor,
Windows VistaDear Interested Reader
This the first post to a three-times-a-week blog that will tackle Windows Vista desktop issues for the enterprise environment. My primary areas of focus will include topics of interest to IT professionals work with Windows Vista on large networks. Thus, it will address...
