Robert M.

Member since: Feb 21st, 2006

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Recent Comments:

Ask DLS: Does Google Chrome Frame tactic smell funny to anyone else? (Download Squad)

Sep 23rd 2009 7:47AM If Microsoft did this to any app by anybody, the Internet would rise up with their tar and their pitchforks and slay them.

Dell's XPS One (PRODUCT) RED is a charitable rip off (Engadget)

Jan 25th 2008 2:38PM http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2008/01/25/engadget-needs-to-fact-check-regarding-dell-xps-one-red.aspx

How many HD DVD players does Toshiba need to sell to just break even? (Engadget HD)

Nov 30th 2007 5:32PM The only thing I would ask is, what constitutes "sold"? I got 5 free HD-DVDs with my Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, but they don't come for 6-8 weeks. If 90,000 units were sold that one week, that means that there are almost half-a million HD-DVDs that are going to ship to consumers between now and February. How does that factor in with the current numbers?

Black Friday Giveaways (part 11): Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 (Engadget)

Nov 23rd 2007 2:55PM I've been waiting for one of these for a while now. Thanks!

Go ahead, just try tickling ElmoSapien (Engadget)

Sep 28th 2007 2:42PM By hollowing out the head, I meant so that the Elmo head could go on the robot's head instead of above it.

Go ahead, just try tickling ElmoSapien (Engadget)

Sep 28th 2007 2:37PM They should have hollowed out the Elmo head and drilled holes through the eyes so that the red lights would have shown through. THAT would have been cool. Evil Elmosapien.

Microsoft beams out Vista SP1 to beta testers (Engadget)

Sep 24th 2007 6:42PM Those Reliability updates have been out for quite a while right now, thanks.

New GPS satellites to ditch Selective Availability (Engadget)

Sep 20th 2007 3:56AM Maybe this was in response to the issues that Eurpoe's satellite system was having. Maybe SA was the main reason why Europe wanted it's own system... and now that SA is off, maybe Galileo will fold.

http://www.betanews.com/article/EU_Proposes_Bailout_of_Galileo_Sat_Nav_Project/1190233566

Once you go Mac (Blog Maverick)

Sep 16th 2007 10:47PM Mark,

Sorry you've been having so many problems with Vista. When you upgraded your PC to Vista, did you make sure you had updated to the latest BIOS first? I've seen several instances where BIOS updates AFTER the upgrade make things worse, but if you upgrade to a Vista BIOS *before8 upgrading to Vista, then things tend to run much more smoothly.

Also, if you just use Outlook and Safari, did you try reformatting yoru PC and doing a completely clean installation?

Finally, I'm sure you get a crapload of e-mail a day, and those huge Outlook files is what's killing you. Are you running Hosted Exchange? if not, you might want to check out companies like ASP-One. For $10 a month you get a bunch of e-mail space, and your Outlook rules can run on the server instead of as they are downloaded.

For your e-mail archives, I recommend the "7-6-6 rule": Every 7 days, archive anything older than 6 weeks into an archive folder that holds no more than 6 months of archived mail. And only have the most recent archive file loaded. If I need something older than that, I load up athat archive folder for only as long as I need it, and then close it.

Using all these tips, my Outlooks runs *a lot* faster. The next time you're in town when the Suns play the Mavericks, drop me a line and I'll see if I can't give your Vista install an extra boost.