Posts (page 5)
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,…
- Windows 7 NTFS worry...
Out of the blue, my Windows 7 install decided to run chkdsk on my system drive on startup (once). It didn't find any problems. A little bit more digging…
- People's failures at using COM
What does MSDN say about the ppvObject parameter in IUnknown::QueryInterface? > ppvObject [out] The address of a pointer variable that receives the interface…
December 2009
- Mr User Friendly returns
As does Mr Screen Shot... (If you're wondering, the problem was just that I had the destination file open in a certain application..)
November 2009
- UPEK Protector Suite strikes again
I thought (or perhaps naively hoped) UPEK had fixed all their issues. Alas, I was to be disappointed on a large scale as you can see below. I admit, it's not a…
September 2009
- Windows 7 RTM feedback...
I decided to go ahead and buy a TechNet subscription so I could "evaluate" Windows 7, and am now running Windows 7 RTM on both of my computers. One was…
August 2009
- Braindead logging
Thanks, Windows.
July 2009
- Blurry text disease strikes again
A little while ago I wrote about how the Windows 7 RC jump lists are affected by such a problem. I decided to install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and to my…
- PSU whine/squeal/buzz... (under graphics card load)
Just wtf is this about. It's horrible, and loud. Seemingly known as 'coil whine', but it's some combination of a whine, buzz and squeal. I had it when I had a…