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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 ...

I completely forgot to document this down after having overcame it a couple of weeks back, so I better log it down even though I still haven't done that last bit of verification testing. It seems that a very low number of Windows Vista systems will encounter a show-stopper error that prevents .NET Framework 1.1 from successfully installing. It ...

After decades technology experience, with well over 10 years of 32-bit Windows operating system development, I thought we were long past this. But nope, apparently Windows Vista with all its delays and quality gates spanning over 3 years, still breaks like a baby who has pooped its diapers at the most fundamental of computing activities. The ...

MVP Maung Maung has shown a way to set this as a default privilege: But that begs the question: Why is that in the Compatibility tab? And not in Security? Given my past experience, that tab was only used for setting up legacy applications to run in Windows XP/2003; I never gave it a thought to look in the Compatibility tab for this scenario. ...

The biggest hurdle to installing new software is the unavoidable demand (not just a mere requirement) to spend that sitting time to learn it considerably to be useful and productive with it. This factor is increased exponentially when it is the operating system that gets upgraded. After going through the Ironman journey of simply getting ...

So sad considering just a couple of days ago I was impressed with the locked screen of Windows Vista. Now what's up with this operating system, you ask? Well, my company laptop is throwing tantrums again. This insufferable hardware continues to run the CPU to the ground with successive processes, preventing me from doing any productive work. I ...

So by now we have all the 10,001 Windows Vista annoyances documented all over the Internet. Maybe there is some opportunity for some little praise here. The only copy of Vista I have installed and running exists in my deteriorating PC, one of its ailments being the PS/2 and USB ports behind totally toasted. These few years tolerated with the ...

Everybody's installed the Beta 1 build and blogged more about it than the official OS manual that will be included in the release package can ever hope to be as thick. So here is my attempt not to be a social outcast (of the technical community; I'm still working on the other circles of civilisation) by showing I'm ''in'' with the rest of the ...