The Windows Vista Team Blog covers games with a video. Included are Lego Star Wars II and Company of Heroes, running on a Toshiba Satellite P100 with Vista installed.

A decent summary of services you do and don’t need. (more…)

In Windows Vista, you receive the following error message when you try to start Windows Internet Explorer 7:

You must be an administrator to open Internet Explorer on this desktop.
To open Internet Explorer, right-click the Internet Explorer icon, and then click ‘Run as administrator’

You receive this error message even after you log on by using an account that is a member of the Administrators group.

Note: This problem does not occur in earlier versions of Windows. These versions include Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

A look at the beta that was released today of the blog writting tool ‘Windows Live Writer’. (more…)

Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Windows Live Mail, and Windows Live Writer are now available as beta downloads. (more…)

iTunes is now officially Vista compatible. (more…)

M-Audio, maker of high-end audio cards, announced it will have Vista drivers for some of it’s most popular products by the end of the quarter. (more…)

This post talks about some tips from Mark Russinovich, a Microsoft ‘?bergeek’. (more…)

When you install an .msu update package on a computer that is running Windows Vista, you may receive the following error message:

The Windows Modules Installer must be updated before you can install this package. Please update the Windows Modules Installer on the computer, then retry Setup.

When you use a script to install the .msu update package, the installation fails. When this problem occurs, the Wusa.exe process returns error code 0x800f0823.

You perform one of the following operations on a Windows Vista-based computer:

• Connect to a shared printer on the network, and then run the “Common Scenario Stress with IO” test in Driver Test Manager (DTM).
• Print to a shared printer on the network.
• Perform a power management operation. For example, you put the computer to sleep or into hibernation. Or, you wake the computer from sleep or from hibernation.

In this scenario, you receive a Stop error message that resembles the following:

*** STOP: 0x0000009F (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE