David Vielmetter

Tag: Windows Vista

Map a drive without domain membership

Here’s the problem: You’ve got a small business with an Active Directory domain, but some of your computers have Windows XP/VISTA Home, so they can’t be joined to the domain. Furthermore, you want to map a shared shared resource such as a printer or network drive on one of said computers. When you use the…

September 14, 2009
Install a shared printer in Vista/7 x64

My main printer (Canon i560 Ink jet) is connected to an old Gateway notebook running XP in my living room. The notebook is connected to my wifi network and the printer is shared, but I cannot connect to it from Windows VISTA/7 x64. Whenever I attempt to connect the printer from these operating systems Windows…

August 20, 2009
HP printer drivers: software engineering gone wrong

I’ve worked with HP Printers throughout my entire career. Lets face it, they’re still the gold standard in business laser printing. So when the time came to refresh all HP printers at a clients headquarter site, I found that HP had made some changes to their popular 2000, 3000, and 4000 lines of business laser printers. Unfortunately…

July 1, 2008
Vista ReadyBoost and SD Memory

I got a Sony VAIO with a built in SD Card and MemoryStickTM slot. Since I’m running VISTA, I thought I’d utilize one of these slots along with a large capacity MemoryStickTM or SD card as a ReadyBoost device. My dilemma: Although there are plenty of sites that tell you which SD cards will work…

February 16, 2008