Topics from October, 2006
- Hell yeah, I remember (Desktop) Aurora - set your screensaver to be your desktop under Vista
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Most interesting feature not to make it into Vista: Mimesweeper
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Windows 2003 has processor power management disabled by default - a good read on how to fine tune and enable it
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- Adobe Flash plug-in under Vista causing DEP exceptions or strange crashes? Grab the newer Adobe Flash Player 9 build.
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Tuesday, October 31. 2006
- KB 920342 - PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol) v2 from Vista backported to Windows XP as an update
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Friday, October 27. 2006
- A twisted version of fun - publishing applications from a Longhorn virtual machine on my laptop and running those apps on my host Windows XP
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Thursday, October 26. 2006
- WIDCOMM/Broadcom Bluetooth stack works under Windows Vista if you brute force install it
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Saturday, October 21. 2006
- Recommended hotfixes for Windows 2003 SP1 clusters (not RTM)
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Thursday, October 19. 2006
- Fixing 'broken' CD-rom/DVD-rom access - drive functions in BIOS but not under Windows - sometimes related to GearAspiWDM
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Wednesday, October 18. 2006
- Windows XP Product Key Update program from Microsoft to update non-legit XP copies to legit
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Thursday, October 12. 2006
- Sun Java JRE 5.0 seems to have the logic reversed when interpreting elevated Windows Installer rights
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Monday, October 9. 2006
- Fool websites into thinking you are running IE 6.0 when you are actually running IE 7.0
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Friday, October 6. 2006
- Having shared fax problems or TAPI applications that are hanging, like there is a deadlock condition, in Windows 2003? I know I have seen it - get KB 924050 and KB 919009
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Friday, October 6. 2006
- Initiating Remote Assistance without an initial request - undocumented or under-reported?
Posted by Aaron Tiensivu on Wednesday, October 4. 2006
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