May 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31


Sedo - Buy and Sell Domain Names and Websites project info: vistajuice.com Statistics for project vistajuice.com etracker® web controlling instead of log file analysis

« Vongo - Vista Edition is out | Main | Another reason to leave UAC On »

Wanna get your MacBook to run Vista? It's easy.

Digg!

I just read on Brandon's web site (BrandonLive.com) that he bought a MacBook and followed a nice guide on how to install Vista onto it, which he found quite useful since Apple's BootCamp driver installer gets scared of Vista.

Here is the link to the instructions:
http://www.geocities.com/nja469/

In case this site runs out of bandwidth or something since the instructions are an image file, you can get them here from my site as a backup: click me.

And also visit Brandon's website when you get a chance: www.BrandonLive.com

... Update ...

Just couple of seconds ago, he also published a solution for Apple Trackpad driver giving you issues when computer resumes from sleep or hybernation where you have no way of using a mouse. He found a nice workaround for it:

Verbatim from This Post on his site:

  1. Download DevCon.exe (free from Microsoft.com)
  2. Save it somewhere (I put it in Program Files\DevCon, but it shouldn’t matter where).
  3. Open the Task Scheduler (type “task” into the start menu to find it quickly).
  4. Click “Create Task” and give it a name (like “Fix stupid Apple driver”)
  5. Choose a user to run the task - should be a member of the machine’s Administrators group.
  6. Check the box that says “Run with highest privileges”
  7. Select the option to “Run whether user is logged on or not”
  8. Go to the Triggers tab and click New…
  9. Select “On Workstation Unlock” from the drop-down and click OK.
  10. Go to the Actions tab and click New…
  11. Point it at wherever you saved Devcon.exe
  12. In the “Add Arguments” field, type:  restart USB\VID_05AC&PID_021A&MI_01
  13. The above string was one of the two Hardware IDs listed for my Apple Trackpad device (NOT the filter device).  It’s possible yours might vary, so check in Device Manager to make sure it’s the same, especially if this one doesn’t work.
  14. Go to the Conditions tab and uncheck the box that says “Start the task only if the computer is on AC power”
  15. Click OK and verify the password for the account you chose for the task to run under.

 


TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.vistajuice.com/cgi/mt/mt-tb.cgi/43

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on February 4, 2007 3:22 PM.

The previous post in this blog was Vongo - Vista Edition is out.

The next post in this blog is Another reason to leave UAC On.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.



Hosted on PeconiHosting.com

Tag cloud

Powered by
Movable Type 3.34
and PeconiHosting.com

Copyright (c) 2007 - Petar Smilajkov - Peconi

"Windows Vista", the Start Orb, and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.


Sedo - Buy and Sell Domain Names and Websites project info: vistajuice.com Statistics for project vistajuice.com etracker® web controlling instead of log file analysis