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Disable Windows Vista UAC
Everyone who owns Vista knows UAC by now. Everyone also knows it's not smart to turn it off, but still a lot of people do so. It's not easy for Microsoft to make their customers happy, is it now?! ;-) Anyway, a smarter solution is something I...
Posted: Feb 22 2008, 04:31 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Running Vista; Blue isn't my favorite color
I just blogged that I'll be switching back to Windows XP . One of the problems I forgot to mention is this one: I can't remember the time that my Windows XP gave me a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). On Windows Vista tonight was about my 15th time since I...
Posted: Jan 09 2007, 08:34 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 10 comment(s)
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Running Vista; I think not!
I've made my decision, I'm rolling back to Windows XP. I've been using Vista on my laptop on which I perform my daily work. Some problems I've come across: Visual Studio 2005 doesn't behave as I want it to, for example extreme slow startups It's very...
Posted: Jan 09 2007, 07:05 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 7 comment(s)
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ASP.NET debugging on Vista/IIS7
For some reason, a single project I'm working on wouldn't let the debugger attach to my IIS7 on Vista. I was completely clueless on why this was happening. Great thing is, the problem is solved, it now connects. The problem remaining is, that I'm still...
Posted: Jan 02 2007, 10:41 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Beta
Just recently Service Pack 1 was released ( Beta! ) for Visual Studio 2005. Back then, the Vista update had a link, but it was removed. Miguel blogged that the beta version is online! This update is required because of the security enhancements to Windows...
Posted: Dec 21 2006, 01:55 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Vista desktop search & starting applications as administrator
Via Tim Sneath I've learned that you can start an elevated command prompt from the Start Menu. Press ctrl-esc to pull up the start menu, type in "cmd". cmd.exe is the command prompt. When it's visible, just press ctrl-shift-enter and it'll start up with...
Posted: Dec 21 2006, 11:28 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available!
And suddenly it's there... Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 (includes SP1 updates for Standard, Professional, and Team Editions of Visual Studio 2005) Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1 Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions SP1 Visual Studio...
Posted: Dec 15 2006, 09:29 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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Running Vista; My Documents
Ranting coming up, you might want to skip ;-) This is not actually a Vista problem, but a Windows problem. Why is the My Documents (or in Vista: Documents) folder so abused? Just take a look at what's in mine and note that I'm not actually saving my documents...
Posted: Dec 04 2006, 08:42 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Running Vista; Part 3
SQL Server 2005 problem solved. The ISO's I used were probably corrupted. I installed from cd and everything installed like a charm. I'm running SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition without problems now. Vista isn't the most stable OS I've had so far. I...
Posted: Nov 23 2006, 10:08 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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Running Vista; Part 2
So I'm still running Vista and guess what... I got my first BSOD this morning! I can't remember the time I had this with WinXP. New default in Vista is sleep, instead of shutting down. So when you press your pow... *** ... power button, you computer ends...
Posted: Nov 21 2006, 03:31 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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Running Vista; Redmond, we have a problem
So I'm running Windows Vista. And although it's running very smoothly itself, there are some problems. SQL Server 2005 won't install This is the weirdest one and I have no idea how to solve it. The server/service itself has installed, but client tools...
Posted: Nov 20 2006, 01:21 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 6 comment(s)
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Vista RC1 keys available
Last time, only 1000 keys were available. So everyone had to wait until the program opened up again. Good news, it's open again! And while Erwyn is away , who normally posts these kind of things , I took it upon me to tell you the news. Perhaps you want...
Posted: Sep 19 2006, 02:00 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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