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November 2008 (continued)

  1. How many bugs do window scrollbars (APIs) have with visual themes enabled?

    A never ending amount, evidently. Amusingly they go away if you disable visual themes for the application.

  1. Retrieving data from the dead hard drive

    The process I followed is relatively funny really: 1. Unplug hard drive SATA power lead & boot into Windows. Wait until it has finished loading. 2.…

  1. Computer woes continued

    It seems my suspicions of the nVidia SATA controller driver being bugged were in fact…

October 2008

  1. General computer woes

    This is what happens when I decide to upgrade some parts of my computer: 1. Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive It turns out the nForce 590 (AMD) SATA driver on…

  1. Why does the Control Panel mock me?

    I just opened up the Control Panel on my Vista x64 machine and just felt very annoyed. Why? Because it looked like this: What's wrong here? 1. Half of the…

August 2008

  1. Unspecified brilliance

    Windows Explorer surprised me today with a lovely new message whilst I was browsing a folder on my network: :o

May 2008

  1. Strange messages in Windows: Part N

    I do like making a note of strange dialogs for some reason. Here is one I got trying to copy a file in Windows Explorer: So what does Internet Explorer have to…

  1. Useless error messages

    Don't you love them? :)

April 2008

March 2008

  1. More Amazon

    Amazon.co.uk have a little thing on their website where you can submit corrections in their product listings. It seems a bit cheeky really, but even worse look…

  1. Amazon artwork grabber script

    If you're like me and you like storing all your album art in a single folder I made a quick and dirty Windows Powershell script that automatically grabs artwork…

February 2008

  1. What's NOT fixed in Vista SP1?

    Oh, they definitely fixed some problems, but they also didn't fix some (and possibly added some). 1. I think this one is new because I never noticed it…

  1. Problem Reports and Solutions

    How many things are wrong in the screenshot below? In case you're wondering, this is the rather random file linked. Maybe this solution came from Microsoft's…

January 2008

  1. Elephantsforpets

    The government talks about the cons of having elephants as pets... http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14196.asp

December 2007

  1. VC 2008 released!

    ...And incremental linking is apparently broken! What great fun!

November 2007

  1. WTF

    Some dodgy string interpolation.

October 2007

  1. Where does Visual Studio fail?

    When you create a new Win32 project in Visual C++ 2005, you get a message loop that looks like this: // Main message loop: while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0,…

September 2007

  1. Bugs, bugs, bugs

    Today I decided to run the Windows Experience Index assessment again since it said it my score needed updating. However, peculiarly when I clicked "Refresh…

  1. Minor Vista bug

    As I like to note them, I just found another minor but annoying Vista bug. Go to Control Panel / Power Options / Edit Plan Settings. Click on one of the drop…

  1. Vista in nuts mode

    The Vista on my laptop decided to go (literally) nuts a few days ago. Nuts, as in a few minutes after login it would half-freeze. Half freeze as in…