Problem:  When I use the two finger scroll on my MacBook Pro within Windows vista, the scrolling is way too fast and hard to control.  Almost feels like a page down command.
Solution:  Go to control panel and go into the mouse properties.  Change the vertical scroll wheel from 3 to 1 and the scrolling is [...]

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Problem:  Still learning how to use Vista on my MacBook Pro and the new problem that I have been having was the lack of a page up and page down key. 
Solution:  While  holding down the fn key, use the up and down arrows to achieve page up and page down.

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Lately, I’ve been frustrated with the bloated nature of CD burning software like Nero and Roxio.  Both have added so many features that making a simple data CD/DVD or burning an ISO image can be an huge ordeal.  Not to mention the programs running in the background that wast processor and memory resources.  About [...]

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The other day, I upgraded to Vista SP1 and really haven’t noticed any significant changes but here are some things that I have discovered in the past 24 hours since the upgrade.

Copying files to a network drive is faster.  First thing I noticed is that I didn’t get the “calculating time to copy files” message, [...]

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Vista SP1 has been out for a couple of weeks now so I thought it was time to upgrade to see how it goes.  There are two ways to update your Vista and that is either through Windows Update or downloading the entire package, which is about 435 megabytes.  I decided to do the whole [...]

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