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Welcome to the real IT world, Obama staff January 25, 2009

Posted by AskMike in General.
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According to the Washington Post, the incoming U.S. presidential administration are upset by the outdated Office running on Windows, no Facebook and no IMs.

 

Well, welcome to the real world. That is exactly how the IT in 95% of corporations and  organizations works.

Here is list of most of common IT policies

  • No Facebook, what so ever. Facebook is simply blocked within the corporation network. Sorry and now get back to work.
  • IM clients, most likely ports are blocked. Unless it is for work.
  • Macintosh is not supported at all because those internal web apps doesn’t run well.
  • Blackberry, now get this, President. You could have blackberry and get emails on your corp. Blackberry. But there’s no way to install 3rd-party apps and they are blocked by IT Policy!
  • Office 2007, Vista? Not right now, because IT department has to test them before rolling out.

Basically that is exactly how people work everyday. Now stop being a baby and go back to work!

 

Fix: Windows 7 Beta gadgets not working issue January 13, 2009

Posted by AskMike in Computers & Internet.
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After a fresh installed Windows 7 beta on my PC. I am quite happy with the overall performance and features presented by this beta.

However, it seemed Windows gadgets didn’t work. Right click on the desktop and select gadgets but nothing happened. I tried to download some gadgets but it said “unspecified error” when I tried to install gadgets.

First of all, I thought it was a bug so I reported it. However, I found the cause and fixed it.

It was the UAC – User Account Control, causing gadgets stop working. After installed Windows 7 beta, I naturally set the level  of UAC to “Never notify”. Apparently it broke the gadgets. After restored the UAC back to default level or level 1. I am able to install and show gadgets on my desktop now.

Wired but worked, You will have to use default level at least level 1 for UAC to get the gadgets worked.

Windows 7 beta UAC setting

Windows 7 beta UAC setting