The Windows 8, Part 2

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For past week I’ve been using Windows 8 as the main PC’s OS, and I’m willing to write here about its problems and their solutions. The last problem I had was VPN connection problem. As I upgraded my Windows 7, so my VPN Connection was upgraded too and if I use the Administrator user the connection was all right. But when I add my Microsoft Account, the VPN connection starts to give me errors, like 691 and things about “bad username or password”. As I’ve searched I came into http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-networking/windows-8-consumer-preview-vpn-problem-error-691/c0cf1b6b-b0f7-4604-af79-362a2dc37113

As you can read there, the problem is Windows 8 adds your computer name by default as the domain name and so if your VPN user name is “MyUserName” and your computer name is “MyCompterName” so Windows 8 will send “MyComputerName\MyUserName” as the user name to the VPN server. So if your VPN server does use a domain name for login so you have to set the user name as “MyDomainName\MyUserName”, but if the VPN server does not need/ accept any domain name? Then you have to enter user name as “\MyUserName” and that’s all.

So as most of the Iranian people use VPN connection to connect to real internet (not the crap that the government feed us as internet) and also you might need VPN to access to Windows Store, so I’m going to right this blog in Persian too:

رفع مشکل خطای ۶۹۱ در ویندوز ۸
ویندوز ۸ بصورت خودکار نام کام‍‍‍پبوتر شما را به نام کاربر VPN شما اضافه می کند و بخاطر همین موضوع ارتباط با سرور برقرار نمی شود و خطاهای در مورد رمز یا نام کاربری اشتباه ظاهر می شود.
برای رفع این مشکل اگر نام کاربری و رمز عبور ذخیره شده است باید ابتدا با کلیک راست روی VPN Connection مورد نظرگزینه “Clear cached cridentials” را انتخاب کرده و دوباره برای برقراری ارتباط اقدام کنید. در قسمت نام کاربری کاراکتر “\” را به قبل از نام کاربری خود اضافه کنید مثلاً “MyUserName\” مشکل به همین سادگی رفع خواهد شد.

The Windows 8

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This has been months since I wrote something here, I’ve been down for month but now things are like to getting better.

Couple of nights ago I’ve installed Windows 8 Customer Preview, and here are my comments:

1) First the installation process is great, easy and completely flawless. I’ve upgraded my Windows 7 installation and it went so great. Zune, FIFA 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and also Windows Media Center TV settings were upgraded with no problems.

2) Windows Store is no accessible from IRAN (I hate you Mahmoud Ahmadinejad even MORE!)

3) After adding my Windows Live ID (Now changed to Microsoft Account) some security issues happened, and here are things I did to overcome that:

Change owner of your folder from “Administrator” to “Administrators”, also add the “Administrators” to their users and set it to “Full Control” permission.

Login via the Administrator and change the Microsoft Account user to “Administrator Type”. Also while logged change the UAC control to lower settings if you don’t like to be bothered by the OS.

4) After hours of using the Windows 8, I feel it is slow and by slow I mean:

Right click on desktop takes about 10 seconds to open context menu.

Contacts, Music, Photos, Video and all other applications (Metro UI Apps) take about 5-10 seconds to open.

Windows Photo Viewer take about 5 seconds to open up.

Windows Media Player/ Media Player Classic Homecinema open fast but take 5-10 seconds to start playing files.

And my computer is Core i3 3.4 GHz, 4GB Ram, SSD, NVidia 460 GTX (XFX). So after a research using Bing (not Google) I have found out reinstalling NVidia Driver would solve all those problems.

If you live in IRAN you might know that NVidia has filtered our access to download location, you can download it from http://hipfile.com/x83sjw2w8nx8/295.73-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe.html which is my cloud storage.

Beside those problems which was caused again by third party apps (as always by NVidia, ATI, Adobe, etc.) the Windows 8 can be better that Windows 7.

I said “CAN be better” because it seems like to be polished before it can be better, in other words it is like its “Child Drawn Fish Icon”, and I hope Microsoft would provider a lot of updates before its release time so we can test it or else it will be as VISA THE FAILURE.

Sadjad Bahmanpour

WordPress for Windows Phone 7 Application Problem

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I’ve changed my blog address to http://www.sadjad.net/blog  so it wouldn’t be filtered in Iran and I have no excuses for being lazy and not write about things I find. So I’ve also installed the WordPress for Windows Phone 7 Application which can be found here.

I’ve found the application very useful and has all the features I need but it has a very BIG bug. My HTC HD7 is running on Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and the application cannot save the blog address I add to the application. This way you need to add your blog each time you open the application. Also I’ve tried to pin the blog to the start page but when I press the Blog HUB it disappeared and the application opened just like it was the first time I opened it.

So I’ve made a post for this problem in their forum and here is the answer I’ve got:

Thanks for letting us know, I was able to reproduce this myself. We’ll get this fixed in the next release.

Hope this problem will soon be gone,
Sadjad Bahmanpour

Moving Time

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Yay, here is my first blog since like a year before, when someone in Microsoft decided to close the Windows Live Space and send us all to WordPress and the someone in Iran decided to filter *.wordpress.com and I became a lazy-ass to use VPN or other things to update my blog.

Anyways, today I’m gonna start again to write here.

Hey Windows Phone users, you might checkout http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/ seems like Microsoft it now open to ideas for at least the Great Windows Phone. You’ll have 10 vote to spend on some ideas that might got through the next version on the OS, so spend your voted carefully.

You my Persian friends might vote for the “Persian Language Support” :D

Sadjad Bahmanpour

The Best Antivirus Even Got Better 2

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Microsoft has just release the “Microsoft Security Essentials 2″ and I just loved it, not only because of some new features like:

Network inspection system
Windows Firewall integration
Enhanced protection for web-based threats
New protection engine

But also the are some secret changes:

1) You can now install the MSE on Server platforms. I’ve just tested it on Windows Server 2008 x86 & x64 and also the new Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.
Before this I had to install the great Microsoft Forefront Client Security, by just a little [hacky] command file; but this was not the problem, the problem was I had to configure WSUS to download the definition updates for both MSE and Forefront and file size was about 150MB average.

2) WSUS download the MSE 2.0 Definition updates cumulatively, means less download size if you want to download the definition daily or more.

Sadjad Bahmanpour

Horror Days are Over!!!

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According to liveside.net Microsoft unleashed the “Full-Seasion SSL” for hotmail, you must visit https://www.hotmail.com to start using this feature.

You might ask why I’m so excited about it, because using this feature the Goverments (like ours) cannot access your email while you’re using it and so the horror days for “The Grean Party” is over and now they can send and recieve emails and no one could read it, Thanks MS; and hey Google it’s your turn!

Sadjad Bahmanpour,
www.sadjad.net

In Memory of Windows Live Spaces

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Last night Microsoft has just decided to shutdown the Windows Live Spaces and kicked our asses and gave us some generous choices to either delete or download or move our space to WordPress; And I just feel like being rapped (Not that I’ve ever been :D ), I’ve been using Windows Live Spaces since 2007 (it was a beta product at that time) and I’ve seen it being updated lots of times and the last update which was about spam comments was great.

Anyway the WordPress is good (much much better), with lots of new features and I like it and I know I’m gonna be a WordPress blogger from now on. The only thing I miss here is “The Integration” with Windows Live which I like the most in the Windows Live Services.

P.S: To Sina Hakami, it is now have the “Like It” feature.
Sadjad Bahmanpour

Windows 7 HomeGroup Problem

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I’ve always been using Microsoft Windows Domain Controller for managing more than one computer (Which I always had more than 4) but after moving to my own appartment I’ve disjoined my two computers from the old domain. Last couple of days I’ve been playing with HomeGroup of Windows 7 and I have a weird problem.

Windows Internet Explorer 9.0

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As you might read my last entry, I’ve been waiting to test the full beta version of IE 9.0, and I’m now and I have to say WOW, it is good, I mean Microsoft is in the right pass (Windows 7, IE 9.0, Kinect, WinPhone 7). It is absolutly the best web browser of them all and yes it is as good as chrome 6.0. So here is my review:
 
Pros:
1) It is fast and clear
2) The thing that every tab can be grabbed and it would be a new window: It is chrome mimic but who cares it ain’t a patent.
3) If any tab hangs the other tabs are fine now
4) The Download manager, atleast good job. If I remember right it was first announced in early beta stage of Vista but them it disapeared.
5) The messages are now appeared in the bottom of page, WOW no more popups, I hate them.
6) The "Addon Load Time Checker" it was first announced in IE 8.0 but now it is automatic.
 
Cons:
1) The font thing!!!
2) When a tab is fetching the data (nothing to show) and you switch through tabs will show the last tab contents but it could show a loading symbol
3) This one I remeber in all versions: The save page progress (File->Save) still hangs all the tabs in that browser, Man look at what chrome do about it (a progressbar in the bottom of the page would do the thing), I think this procedure is an "Ancient Code" which no one would go after it :D  (here is where I can help)
 
If you see something else comment me about it,
Sadjad Bahmanpour

DELL Inspiron DUO

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Atlast after 4 years (I really don’t remember maybe 5 or more) DELL released a laptop I would like to buy, it is called "Inspiron DUO". It is a tablet and also at the same time a laptop, a new way of making tablet without a week point "THE HINGE". It is a 10" touch screen notebook (PLEASE make it a capacitive/ multi touch screen) with a dual core/ hyperthread enabled Intel Atom N550 (1.5 GHz/ 1MB cache/DDR3/ 64bit/… for more info checkout http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=50154&code=Intel%c2%ae+Atom%e2%84%a2+Processor+N550+(1M+Cache%2c+1.50+GHz) nothing else is known but I HOPE 2GB RAM and 64GB SSD and NVidia ION 2 (this is what I don’t think would be possible ’cause the N550 has a built-in VGA). The only down side of the CPU is the Intel® VT is not supported, but I’m sure it is more powerfull that N270/N280 (N270 has 47 million transistors but the N550 has 176 millions WOW!!)
 
The only things I hope are 2GB RAM and dual touch capabality and the price about 700$ and I would buy one.
 
 
P.S: DELL has just stole the BUZZ around Windows Internet Explorer 9, which would be beta(ed) to day, I’m very excited to test it and to see if microsoft is going in the right direction (and IF YES, I have to say I love you BALLMER, you’ve made them all wrongs->right; You know Vista->7, IE8->9, WinMo6.x.x.x.x->WinPho7 …)
 
Sadjad Bahmanpour