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Let me cut to the chase: it is not somewhere in C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files The answer lies in the path defined in Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders Which in my case referred to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies, ...

It's funny. As a PC enthusiast (well, at least i once was) I have put my computers through the decades a barrage of component upgrades; few things come close to bringing a satifactory glee to my face like witnessing the new hardware component bringing in new levels of performance or functionality to my computing. But one type of upgrade I have ...

It has been a long time in coming. For more than two years of using this cursed desktop PC, one of the most expensive problems I have had to live with was its inability to sleep or hibernate. Each time I got Windows to initiate the energy-conversation sequence, it would relinquish control to the hardware to shut down, only to have the ...

For some reason, one of my laptop's been throwing up Windows Vista's On-screen keyboard every time I logon to a desktop session. Typing with a mouse on my laptop sure is as fun and necessary as using a magnifying glass to burn my statements on paper instead of using a regular pen. I sure do not require this functionality, and the On-screen ...

I know I'm cursed, the lightning rod for all the chance strikes that could have turned me into a billionaire if all these probability math worked for me when it comes to lotteries. But no, this time round I blame Microsoft! Yeap, and so Service Pack 2 was released to the masses via Windows Update yesterday. I acted on it without hesitation given ...

Every once in awhile, the very act of deviating from the norm to use a *gasp* 64-bit operating system meets with heavenly punishment. So much so that the most rudimentary tasks of opening a text file in a text editor is met with disapproval. I have already encountered this a few times ever since I installed x64 Windows Vista onto my home's ...

I am a software developer. I know what the complexities of writing software can be. It is really hard sometimes. But, there are still incidents that just boggle me. Why? Why oh why, does it take indefinitely to copy a 406 byte file from a hard disk to a thumb drive? How can the operating system continue to subject itself to be held hostage in ...

In effort to upgrade my certification to MCPD-EA status, I have been retrograding to older frameworks I never had the chance to work on in the past three years. That means putting down that shiny WCF book and dusting off the WSE 3.0 MSDN documentation. One of the IDE-incorporated features for WSE - which was long present in Visual Studio ...

Virtualization is simply awesome. Thanks to maturity in this technology, I do not have to set up so many machines (besides, I cannot afford it) just to test or experiment with so many different environments and configurations. But one can get carried away and end up with a large stash of virtual machines. My primary means of control virtual/guest ...

Hi again! This is your show host, icelava, taking you into yet another exciting round of Blindingly Simple Ways to Waste Windows Explorer! This episode, we explore (pun intended) the habits of tech geeks who grave addictions for possessing a dozen different storage devices to keep all his crucial important files in life handy, available, and ...

Will the same pain ever stop? It seems like IIS 7 has a habit of inserting in more security restrictions to break your applications when you are not looking. So, after you install SP1 onto your Windows Vista workstation, you may want to immediately run over to browser and test if your local web applications can still function normally. You may ...

How is it that I frequently encounter chains of problems that arise out of the simplest of activities that stop me dead in my tracks trying to do my work? Seems like all these bugs all lie in wait to synchronise their actions and achieve a larger concerted effect to increase my suffering. What is the latest way to disable Windows Vista? Simple - ...

*shhhh* I am going to let you in on some secrets. Secrets on how to exploit some vulnerabilities in Windows Vista, thereby stalling the system, rendering in that frustrating despair of useleness. Sounds like fun, huh? Read on. Drag the taskbar around the screen. Yeap, it's that simple. Windows Vista occasionally trips and falls flat on its face ...

Let me state it extremely explicitly clear first: If you make use of Daemon Tools to read .ISO files as virtual CD/DVDs, uninstall it before attempting to upgrade Windows to another edition or repair the installation. And so I thought ''what the heck, what could go wrong?'' when Windows Vista's upgrade checking tool ...

Every parent knows those crushingly exciting and exhausting times. The family welcomes the cute little new member; a wonder bundle of pure joy. There is no greater satisfaction knowing there is the next generation who will carry on your good legacy + fallicies into the future. This joy includes spending many a subsequent night answering ...

Yup, with such regular ocurrences looks like i may be able to start a new TV series about the computing problems I really don't need to deal with. First off, there is this old problem that I had been tolerating without me even realising it - that ''spanking'' computer I assembled last year (just to play World of Warcraft) failed miserably on the ...

The thing that behaves strangely for my copy of Windows Vista is the ''Command prompt here'' trick always brings me to C:\windows\system32 instead of the directory I am working at. I am not too sure how Windows got lobotomized, but I ended up taking the good old Registry-hacking route in order to get my beloved and ugly Command prompt window. I ...

while reading up ExtremeTech's article on tuning WinVista for performance, it interestingly recommends two registry settings pertaining to disk operations: checking for low disk space creating 8.3 DOS-friendly filenames (yeap i still dual-boot with MS DOS 5.5....) http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2110603,00.asp

Why? Because when such a barrier is introduced into the running of processes, even when with the programs defaulted to run as Administrator per above method, one cannot drag and drop files to conveniently open files from WE (Windows Explorer). One of the taken-for-granted features in a windowing environment is the ease of drag and drop between ...

looks like the last error message really indicated some ''fatal'' incompatibility - I cannot run Omea Reader, which runs on .NET FW 1.1. The installation itself also hit a similar error when registering the program. ---------------------------OmeaReader.exe - Common Language Runtime Debugging Services---------------------------Application has ...