Bad iTunes 8 Driver May Cause Issues

Brandon LeBlanc — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:04:00 GMT

Earlier this week, Apple released iTunes 8 which included some headaches for Windows Vista users (including myself) in the way of blue screens of death. My good friend Ed Bott dug into the situation and discovered what might be causing the issue - it appears to be a problem with a driver that is installed when users also install iTunes 8. Unfortunately iTunes is known for pushing out components that Windows users don't necessarily want.

Fortunately, not all is lost. Due to the uproar from unsatisfied customers, Apple issued an updated version of iTunes 8 that fixes the problem (sort of). You'll need to uninstall the broken version of ITunes 8 and Apple Mobile Devices support, and then use your Apple Software Updater to reinstall iTunes 8 and get it working the right way.

Anyways you might be asking why I even installed iTunes in the first place and it's because I am a software fiend and love playing with new software regardless of who it's by. But just so you know - I'm a diehard Zune user myself ;-)

Putting Windows Vista to the test on a new Dell PC

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:00:00 GMT

Ed Bott recently purchased a new Dell C521 PC running Windows Vista Home Premium and blogs about his experience with the PC. He talks about his experience right from starting up the PC for the first time after receiving it from Dell to his experience trying to "stress" the PC out.

What Ed did to "stress" out his PC was he began copying over 6GB of photos from a network server, started playing a DVD in Windows Media Player 11, opened up 5 websites in IE7 (5 different tabs), and opened and started using Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker. Ed even noted that while all of this was taking place, Flip3D worked perfectly. And while his PC's Task Manager displayed high usage on its memory and CPU - Ed says the PC displayed an "a very impressive performance".

I'm going to try The Ed Bott PC Stress Test later tonight on my PC's. ;-)

Click here to read Ed Bott's full report on his experience.

Windows Experience Blog : Ed Bott

Bad iTunes 8 Driver May Cause Issues

Putting Windows Vista to the test on a new Dell PC