Posts (page 4)
March 2016
- Windows 10: The bugs that irk me
There are a few small bugs in Windows 10 that, despite being small bugs, manage to irritate the hell out of me. 1. Desktop icon positions reset themselves…
January 2016
- If you delete the WINDIR environment variable, it's (almost) game over
I came across an interesting problem recently. I was editing some environment variables on a Windows 10 PC, using some third-party software. After doing that, a…
- The death of Google Cloud Print on my MX895 printer: a story of ineptitude
I bought a Canon PIXMA MX895 all-in-one printer in May 2012. In fact, I was one of the first owners of the printer in the UK, having pre-ordered it the…
- Migrating a Windows 10 installation from MBR to GPT/UEFI
I recently updated to Windows 10 on a Z170-based motherboard, but my Windows installation was an MBR-based one rather than a modern UEFI one. I wanted to switch…
- Today I learned...
...in the properties for devices in the Sound control panel applet, you can right-click on the volume bars and change the units to decibels:
- A change of web host
I shifted yuo.be to Amazon Web Services. Here's a recent screenshot of the 'Time spent downloading a page' graph from the Googlebot crawler stats displayed…
December 2015
- The death of IMpeg2Data and the false start of IPSITables
In the Windows Vista-era, I wrote a DVB-T program. Apart from letting you view TV, it read and parsed DVB-SI. With the removal of Media Centre in Windows 10,…
- Windows 10: 'How do you want to open this file'? dialog box
It certainly feels like all the feedback I enter into the Windows Feedback app on Windows 10 ends up in free fall towards the floor of a bottomless abyss.…
July 2011
- Welcome to the club
It looks like iTunes can join the mega-GDI-resource-leak club: Congratulations (?)
April 2011
- Broken drivers
Lenovo finally posted an updated driver - version 267.21 - for the Nvidia NVS 3100M chipset in my ThinkPad T510. Unfortunately after installing it I was greeted…
March 2011
- Adobe Reader X 10.0.1: bugged
Hi Adobe, You might want to do a better job testing your software before releasing it. I was happily reading a PDF document when I wondered why the taskbar…
February 2011
- Some never learn
I downloaded the Dragon Age II PC demo, to find that mouse wheel support is broken - a familiar tale. (Specifically, support for freely rotating mouse wheels with non-120-multiple wheel rotation values). Ho-hum.
- Careful with SHAutoComplete
If you call it with a NULL HWND, it will return E_INVALIDARG but leak six GDI handles (seen under Windows 7 SP1). Yes, you can blame the caller, but 'tis just something to note.
July 2010
- Thoughts of the day
1. Surely a (laptop) recovery DVD that depends on the original storage drive partition layout to be (loosely) intact is a complete fail? I'm looking at …
June 2010
- Microsoft SAPI text-to-speech fun
It seems to fail at resampling. I tested on Windows 7 with the stock Microsoft Anna voice; you probably won't notice unless you use an alternative output…
May 2010
- Letter of rage
Dear Broadcom WIDCOMM Bluetooth Software 6.2.1.2100 installer, Thank you for deleting every file you had access to on my system volume. There's nothing like…
- Web host fun
So my web host blocked my IP address from the server my web site is hosted on... and are denying it/are uninterested in doing anything about it. Seems like…
February 2010
- Attn: UPEK
As I know the nice person(s) at UPEK like to take notice of things posted here, I thought I'd write about a couple of new problems I had with Protector Suite…
January 2010
- Failure at using COM/OLE: Part 2
Last time we just touched on a small issue, as a precursor to the important one. Consider an application that populates an STGMEDIUM structure as follows: *…
- Windows 7: SATA controller in AHCI mode and standby issues
I recently decided to switch my SATA controller into AHCI mode. With this information that was easy enough. What followed though were "BSODs"/stop errors,…