Braindead logging [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LAX0f7iuMtU/SpbSwgqExvI/AAAAAAAAAJk/9DGkdqm6-aU/s1600-h/ohno.png]
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 SMTO_NORMAL flag and not SMTO_BLOCK -Another instance of our process does a SendMessage to the first instance (for command line
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 horror, it has also been struck by this illness in several places.
PSU whine/squeal/buzz... (under graphics card load) Just wtf is this about. I'm referring to this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4d23F2jehQ], or this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_axOyd1Z8], or this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZU9JKCdCVg], or this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Windows 7 Let's put the View menu before the Edit menu [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LAX0f7iuMtU/SlfBvcMi8CI/AAAAAAAAAI8/Jdo2xdUTtog/s1600-h/calcmenu.png] Well, it has been annoying me at least. I might be alone on that though...
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 times when I only meant to click on the title bar
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 a particular online retailer at some point. The fraudulent transaction itself went through a third party processor,
Some Windows 7 RC impressions... I gave in and upgraded Windows Vista SP2 on my laptop to Windows 7 RC. (Moreover, I plan to buy a new laptop around when RTM is released anyway, so I hopefully don't need to worry so much about the update from
Don't you love brilliantly written software? [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LAX0f7iuMtU/ShB7piyUIpI/AAAAAAAAAIk/H_Hj9XEX_OQ/s1600-h/brillsoft.png] No further comment. Well, except that that is UPEK Protector Suite 2009 [http://www.upek.com/win7/] build 5.9.1.5395. Maybe I will try the feedback form....
When in doubt, look closer to home I saw a string of peculiar messages in the Windows Event Log on my laptop which at first sight looked quite alarming: > Windows (1608) Windows: A request to read from the file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb"
Repeatedness If A does something a handful of times, it is described as repeated, and yet when B does it several times as many as A it's not worth mentioning. Strange, isn't it?
Kaspersky vs. Visual Studio and the rest of my computer I thought I would try Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, since someone else in this household uses a certain bank gives out free licences. I did face some issues though: * I only wanted the anti-virus part of it: not the firewall and other bits. Of
Nokia N85: The dodgy earpiece I quite liked my N85. Then I read about how various recent Nokia phones [http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2009/5800-brak-en.shtml] made before Feb 2009 had a problem with a faulty earpiece part. Naturally, that followed with my earpiece breaking: it would cut
Unsubscribing from e-mail newsletters I thought I'd try my hand at this today and just found: * It slightly annoying when you are sent an e-mail confirming that you've unsubscribed (hello, I just told you I don't want your e-mails!) * Even worse, you&
Why do people fail at handling WM_MOUSEWHEEL properly? When handling this message, one of the values you receive is the value which expresses "the distanced the wheel is rotated" (or rather, was). I will call it delta1 to avoid confusion. Basically, this works on a scale where a delta1 of
Wow How much misguided crap [http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47212] can a company spew?
Somone listened! Probably not to me though. The 'Internet Explorer' Windows Explorer warning I complained about some posts below now looks like this in Vista SP2: [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LAX0f7iuMtU/SYDtTE1zuwI/AAAAAAAAAG0/pdxLfoWGqAo/s1600-h/listened.png] Not only did they remove the
I give up. (More flash/hard drive woes) I ended up sending back the Samsung SSD, and bought an Mtron MOBI 3500 instead. (After a bit more research I found out that the Samsung was somewhat better, but never mind it was too late by then). Installed Windows Vista on it etc.
Buying things is difficult After my problems with the 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11, I did some investigating and just kept finding other people with problems of increasing amounts of reallocated sectors. Seemed like enough reason to stay away from them permanently. The WD 1TB black seemed like
It's usually quite interesting reading the Microsoft User Experience guidelines ...because they seem to like pointing out things that are actually wrong in Windows! Here is one I saw the other day: > Incorrect: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LAX0f7iuMtU/SUwg0cq5OXI/AAAAAAAAAEg/QWv1Xd8eKbo/s1600-h/Aa974173.WindowFrames15%28en-us,MSDN.10%29.png] In this incorrect
This is what happens when you stick to hibernate instead of shut down... ...and keep Visual Studio and Firefox permanently open: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LAX0f7iuMtU/SUwMx7W_ObI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/F3xalk4NP3c/s1600-h/toolongcropped.png] First entry is biggest WTF. It is a part of Visual Studio. What it is doing with 785MB committed memory (~45MB private working
Yes, it will always be "explorer.exe". One of the most annoying issues I have with applications when running under Vista 64-bit, is when applications (or rather their developers) decide that it will be a good idea to call explorer.exe directly for their implementation of "Open file location"
Nokia N85 WiFi - "No gateway reply" with Thomson routers (also E71, N79, 5800, ...) If you have one of the recent Nokia phones (N85, E71, N79, 5800, ...) and a recent Thomson / SpeedTouch / BT Home Hub router you may face the "No gateway reply" problem when using the WLAN. By trial and error, I found that this
Verdict on replacement Seagate ST31500341AS It will also be going back, for a refund this time. This one hasn't completely died like the other one, but it makes a click every time it powers up (the same type as the other one did repeatedly when it died)
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.