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We all know the “ Get a Mac ” videos from Apple. And to be honest, they’re pretty funny sometimes. Most of the time… ;) After a horrible start with the Seinfeld commercials (no offence Jerry), Microsoft might be on to something with their new campain “ I’m a PC ”...
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I just uninstalled Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 because it constantly kept crashing. A good thing was that it was only crashing a single tab in IE8, but multiple tabs constantly kept crashing for no reason (to me at least). A new nice feature is colored tabs. But the behavior also changed. Normally I could...
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At both home and work I use Vista and XP resulting me typing "C:\Users" in XP and "C:\Documents and Settings" in Vista which - of course - don't work. You cannot really change those paths except when you install Vista or XP with the pre configuration tool. But there is a solution...
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I have this problem that when I wanted to enable one of the power-saving modes (hibernate or standby) that my computer wakes up in seconds. Sometimes almost immediately and sometimes after 10 seconds. My first thought was that it had to do with my mouse but after disconnecting it I still had the problem...
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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 read on a weblog a long time ago, but I keep forgetting...
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Back in July, Barry Goffe (Director Windows Vista Ultimate) mentioned that the missing Extras identified in January would be released at the end of the summer. I just got a bit curious about when these Extras would finally be released, so I visited windowsultimate.com again. And there it was: DreamScene...
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Everytime I go over to friends or family to fix some kind of "computer problem" that they experience, I start telling the same tips 'n tricks over and over again about how to avoid spyware, how to keep your PC as tidy as possible, how to clean up your internet history, etc. Ofcourse many...
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I just came across this nice little gadget that Microsoft offers to be used on your Vista desktop. It counts down the number of days until the "2008 Global Launch Wave" which will start on wednesday February 27th 2008. Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will then all...
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Viruses and Spyware are annoying to deal with that’s why the following is a bit of a guide to make sure you don’t have to deal with them and if you do need to battle them what the right way to do so is. A bit of advice to help out with not having to deal with this in the first place. When you’re doing...
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Check this out Source: http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1022/picture13552.aspx
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Now that I am using Vista for several months, I got used to the sidebar gadgets quite fast. It's nice to have those small applications within reach and visible instantly. I thought it would be nice to play with gadget-development a little bit and found that no real configurable webcam gadgets were available...
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All of you of course heared all the fuss about how hard, tricky and painfull the installation of Visual Studio SP1 is. so as most of you guys i google the VSSP1 to find out how things gone for folks around the world and came with couple of usefull posts here and here . The common advice which i found...
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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 started using Vista RTM. This time I pressed Windows...
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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 hard to debug IIS examples from internet as they're...
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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 completely clueless on why and what. I was browsing...