Acer C110tci Tablet and Windows 7 Beta

Also installed the Windows 7 Beta on one of our Acer Tablets C110tci (1.25g ram, 30gig hd) tho the install would not finish using the firewire dvd drive that came with our Acer.  I tried the install again using the HP 555s DVD drive we just got and it installed fine.  Install times seem to be at least half that of vista.

I have not installed any apps yet, but the tablet seems to be running just as fast as the xp that was on there.

Tho the HP Mini install found the wireless card and did its updates automagically, the Acer only found the wired nic.  I had to connect it to my wired network and did updates several times before it found all the drivers.

HP Mini 1035NR Newbie

Teresa needed a laptop for office visits so, we went into CostCo, Circuit City and Bestbuy.  CostCo had the 1033cl for 449, Circuit City the 1035NR for closeout 405 and BestBuy the 1030NR for 449.

1033CL= 60g hd, hp mini usb drive
1035NR= 60g hd, bluetooth
1030NR= 16g ssd, hp mini usb drive
Each 1g ram, 10" screen, sd slot, 2 usb ports, xp home sp3, b/g wireless

Had a Circuit City gift card that needed to be spent, so we got the 1035NR, we felt the bluetooth might be handy for wireless mouse.

She played with it for about an hour on Saturday and while she was cropping on Sunday I imaged it and installed Windows 7 Beta, Office 2007, Project 2007 and Visio 2007. Setup offline files and spent a few minutes with her going over the new taskbar in Windows 7 Beta.

Today will be her first day of using it onsite at client visits, will see how she likes it.  So far, she is fine with the small screen (moved the task bar to the left side), small keyboard and atom processor.

Interesting to note, none of the hp mini’s come with a cd rom drive, tho there is a recovery cd in the box.  How many of you have a external usb cd rom/dvd drive?  Since we did not have one a portable, we picked up the HP 555s DVD external usb drive and Bestbuy which worked for the reinstall.

10" of snow in less then 10 hours

  Lots of snow :(  Only had to help push out four neighbors to get out of our cul–de–sac.  Snow came on Friday before 2pm and the plow came Saturday at 11:30am.  The post person didn't even attempt to deliver our mail on Friday afternoon

 

Exchange Defender Spam Monitoring via system tray

www.exchangedefender.com

"ExchangeDefender is an Internet messaging hygiene and business continuity system that keeps your users safe from email threats and keeps you in business. Your users will get much less SPAM, no viruses, they will be able to communicate if the server or network connection goes down and you will get the business reporting and control over your organizations messaging. All at a single price, from the single provider the develops, manages and supports the entire solution."

ExchangeDefender is working on a system tray application for monitoring spam that is prevented from wasting space in our inboxes.  This app can be the substitute for the Outlook add-in that is only for Outlook 2007.  It is standalone and does not need Outlook installed at all.

http://www.vladville.com/2008/11/xd-annoyarizer-20.html 

Can you find the Easter egg:

IE7 cannot view www.nbc.com using a Tablet PC

   So today I was trying to surf to www.nbc.com on my Toshiba M400 tablet and of course IE7 would only produce "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" tho any other computer on the network could view www.nbc.com with no issues.

  Using Google and searching on "cannot view www.nbc.com" I found:

http://mustech.net/2008/04/10/an-interesting-problem-with-nbccom-ie-and-tablet-pcs

  Where Dave (post 11) wrote:

The tablet version of xp and vista install a custom user-agent for IE that makes nbc.com think it’s a mobile device. http://www.nbc.com is forwarding tablets to nbc.starcut.us, which is a wap compatible version of http://www.nbc.com for mobile devices.

This is a band-aid but remove the following registry key, delete the IE cache, and close all browsers and http://www.nbc.com starts working again.

HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Internet Settings>5.0>User Agent>Post Platform>Tablet PC 2.0

SBS and WHS webinar for registered partners

5W/50 Series - Business Opportunities with Windows Home Server

Windows Small Business Server 2008 will not ship with any client backup software, so how will you make sure the top employees at each of your customers sites are backed up (Imaged) everyday? This webcast will cover what you can use Windows Home Server for in small businesses that may not be a good fit for Small Business Server, as well as businesses that may need to use Windows Home Server as a complement to Small Business Server.  You will learn the key points you need to know to add this to your arsenal of solutions for your customers.

Date: 11/14/08

Time: 9:00-10:00am PDT

Registration: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?publisher=12&delivery=253638#

Live Meeting

One Care breaks VPN

Was troubleshooting a laptop today that vpn via pptp was not working on Vista and was producing a dialog box referencing a failure with error 800

Event logs was showing rasclient with event id 20227.

Turns out that the computer has OneCare installed which has its own firewall settings and pptp and vpn were unchecked. checked them and it is now connecting with vpn fine