When the office issued this Lenovo T61 I specifically requested the IT people to give it to me fresh. I mean I will be the one to configure it.
The machine came with Windows Vista Business and a whole bunch of stuff. The first thing I did was wipe it and install Windows Vista Ultimate then turned off UAC. While I was configuring the machine, windows kept annoying me with messages saying that the machine is secure and I should install anti-virus and enable UAC. I told this to one of our network admin and told me to reinstall Windows Vista and bring it to him before I do anything else. What he did was installed Sophos Anti-Virus then joined the machine to our domain. There was no annoying message after that and the explanation was when the machined joined the domain, it automatically implemented the domain policies which disabled the annoying things about Windows Vista. So yes, you have to attend special training to make Vista less annoying. :) On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 18:13 +0800, bill lam wrote: > vista to a workgroup. Already consulted hp > support person and got advice to tune the norton internet security, It > appeared tuning that norton software is rather troublesome, so I > decided to do total un-installation (anyway it is only a 60 days trial > version). Now the computer and printer over workgroup became visible. > However whenever trying to connect it always gave error saying either > name not found or access denial. At the end, I gave up. I guess this > problem be fixed but require knowledge apart from the usual window > common sense. I guess vista is trying to strengthen security but it > was done in a way that only insider know how it works. To paraphrase > linus? quote > window does not work and you d -- "The right questions are more important than the right answers to the wrong questions." -Dr. John Romagna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
