Monday, June 15, 2009

AOL Active Update pop-up

AOL is my work's preferred msnger service and I have had to use it even though I prefer GTalk to most other clients.
Annoying part about AOL is the Active Update popup that keeps popping up when something new is available, and it just wont stop until u actually install it. There isnt any option to disable in Preferences. Google to the rescue! I looked up the issue and yes, someone has already done extensive research to find where the issue is coming from.
I just went ahead and deleted both the problem folders! Dont see any popups now.

Thanks to folks who spent time on it! :)

-Elf.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Windows 7 and the Intel 855GM Video Driver "Solution" « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that “stuff” in-between

Now that I have Windows 7 on my aging laptop, I have been looking for ways to improve on my usability with this configuration. My main issue - Video Graphic driver. The default that got installed gives a best resolution of only 1024x768. When looking around, I found this post - throws some light...I havent tried that tool either, will give it a shot when I have time for multiple installs some time later next week.

-Elf.

Thursday, June 04, 2009

How to resize a partition in Windows Vista

I am getting a new machine with Vista on it. I was looking for ways to be able to partition in Vista and found this link that provides steps to be able to 'shrink' or 'extend' volumes. Will know next week if it works for me :)

-Elf.