Posts (page 5)

July 2010

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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…

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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: *…

  1. 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,…

  1. 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…

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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…

  1. ITaskbarList3::ThumbBarUpdateButtons complaint again

    I'm going to complain about it again. I recently saw a crash log where the user had right-clicked on our application's notification area icon around the…

September 2009

  1. 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

  1. Braindead logging

    Thanks, Windows.

  1. Fun with ITaskbarList3::ThumbBarUpdateButtons

    This issue just cropped up: -We are in function A (a callback function) -We call ITaskbarList3::ThumbBarUpdateButtons -It calls SendMessageTimeout with the…

July 2009

  1. 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…

  1. 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…

  1. Let's put the View menu before the Edit menu

    Well, it has been annoying me at least. I might be alone on that though...

June 2009

  1. Windows 7 RC: minor follow-up

    I've discovered that right clicking on various parts of the taskbar/jumplist brings up some menus I find useful - so that's a great help. However, quite a few…

  1. Credit card fraud

    Recently, my credit card was used fraudulently online. It seems to be part of a recent spate of fraudulent transactions relating to people who have shopped at…