Windows Vista (32 bit)

[Michael Jones]

For those of you helping us test and or are experimenting with IADS
under Windows Vista, I found a neat trick today to make installation a
bit easier...

I've added MsiRunAsAdmin.reg to the files section. Simply double click
on it to 'install'. From that point forward windows .msi file will now
have the right-click option for 'run as administrator' the same as
executables.

Previous to this trick it was neccessary to turn off the UAC (User
Access Controls) or install from a command prompt.

[Eileen Suszek]

Just an additional note on Vista.... Something I have found. If you
use a removable disk (usb device) that has a Fat32 format on a vista
system, you can forget seeing the device again on XP. You will need
to either:

1. Convert your existing disk to NTFS before using it in a Vista
System, or
2. Plan on never using it in a vista system, or
3. Once you plug it into Vista plan on not going back to XP

I found that once I converted the disk to NTFS I could see them on
both XP and Vista.

You can do this pretty quickly using a command prompt (be sure to do a
backup of the USB disk first).

convert : /fs:ntfs
For example, if I were to convert E:/ from Fat32 to NTFS then I would
simply enter "convert e: /fs:ntfs

I know this doesn't have anything to do with IADS, but it will save
you pain later.

Eileen

[Kathy Rodittis]

It sounds to me like you had a specific problem with a file system on your
USB drive. When you say you couldn't see the device on XP, did you mean it
didn't recognize the drive at all or that nothing was on it?

I do the same thing ( transfer a FAT32 formatted USB drive between Vista and
XP ) and don't have any problems. Now granted I am fanatical about always
unmounting USB devices ( i.e. "Safely Remove Hardware" ). I almost never
remove any USB device without doing this. It could be you had a problem with
the file systems on your USB drive and Vista was a little smarter about
reading around it. The convert would have "fixed" the problem. If you
encounter this again, I suggest you run chkdsk on that drive which will also
fix the file system.

I don't see anything on the Web about gotchas between the two OS's either.
But it could be you did hit a particular bug and maybe my disk doesn't have
so many files that the "FAT32" file system would be tested more. I did
notice that the Vista format allows you to set a cluster size of 64K which
is not supported by XP. So maybe you encountered that as well.

[Michael Jones]

I've found that the default settings for Vista cause allot of the
popup hints in IADS to get abbreviated or occluded. We'll address it
later as a bug fix, but for now there is a workaround to reduce the
'border padding' in the OS visualization settings. It appears that
changing it from the default value of 4 to a 1 works well. The setting
is pretty heavily burried, so check out this link for a tutorial about
how to get to it. http://itsvista.com/2007/05/itsvista-tip-53-change-the-border-padding-for-windows-in-vista-aero/

On Oct 16, 5:11 pm, Michael Jones <mjo...@iads-soft.com> wrote:

[Michael Jones]

Has anyone found any new IADS + Windows Vista tips to throw out there?

On Oct 17, 10:39 am, Michael Jones <mjo...@iads-soft.com> wrote:
> I've found that the default settings for Vista cause allot of the
> popup hints in IADS to get abbreviated or occluded. We'll address it
> later as a bug fix, but for now there is a workaround to reduce the
> 'border padding' in the OS visualization settings. It appears that
> changing it from the default value of 4 to a 1 works well. The setting
> is pretty heavily burried, so check out this link for a tutorial about

> how to get to it.http://itsvista.com/2007/05/itsvista-tip-53-change-the-border-padding...

>
> On Oct 16, 5:11 pm, Michael Jones <mjo...@iads-soft.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > For those of you helping us test and or are experimenting with IADS
> > under Windows Vista, I found a neat trick today to make installation a
> > bit easier...
>
> > I've added MsiRunAsAdmin.reg to the files section. Simply double click
> > on it to 'install'. From that point forward windows .msi file will now
> > have the right-click option for 'run as administrator' the same as
> > executables.
>
> > Previous to this trick it was neccessary to turn off the UAC (User

> > Access Controls) or install from a command prompt.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -