Tag: vista

March 23, 2007 Turns out I simply needed to download the drivers from HP and add the printer addressing it via IP. Add a network, wireless, yadda yadda printer. Try "The printer I want is not listed." Even though it like is.  Add a printer using TCP/IP Enter the IP of the printer. For our environment I could only figure it out by walking up to the printer and tapping on the menu button in a frenzy until I found the screen that told me what the IP was. Figuring this out for your printer is up to you. Good Luck. a few more screens... then Test page printed fine. IM Software Trillian Arista - Alpha IM client I was using that started acting weird in Vista. Trillian 3.1 Pro IM client I LOVE that does appears not to work in Vista. Live Messenger - Crappy…

March 22, 2007 Gah! I tried adding our office printer. No dice. Turns out we do not have x64 drivers installed. One more thing to go figure out.  More Software Windows Live Writer (beta) - to complete this post Paint.Net - to post the image above Windows Mobile Device Center - for my Smartphone

Oh happy day. After three years kicking around on the same development box I got a new machine (Dell 9200 loaded up nicely). I decided to explore using Vista for development so I wanted to chronicle my experiences installing Vista (twice) and getting it tooled for development usage. Vista out of the box The install went very smooth nothing of note no driver issues and Windows Update quickly brought vista up to speed with drivers that were missing. This went smoother than my install of Vista on an older home machine. I was/still am in driver hell. After adding the machine to the domain I quickly realized that I should add my domain account as an administrator as every time I tried to install a piece of software I was asked for an admin password.  I likely could have invoked all…