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  • Give me back my CPU(s)

    Too many times I'm seeing this in my system tray; What is that? It's Process Explorer ( I run that instead of Task Manager ) saying that my CPU is pegged ( again ). The primary culprits are; My Anti-Virus software. This has never detected a virus for me yet...
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  • Vista Sp1 on MSDN

    Mike has it over here; http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/02/18/vista-sp1-on-msdn-subscriber-downloads.aspx Makes perfect sense to me - if we have the Vista Sp1 bits kicking around then we should make them available ASAP. I installed Sp1 yesterday...
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  • RacAgent burning CPU on Vista

    This morning, I had the RacAgent (reliability agent) burning CPU for about 30+ minutes. Killed it once or twice and it came back and ran away with the CPU again. I followed the posting up here; http://guy.dotnet-expertise.com/PermaLink,guid,e7b62d65-9567-408f...
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  • Desktop Switching App 2008 ("Old Code is Another Country")

    I resurrected an older piece of sofware that I wrote today. A while ago, before I encountered Virtual Desktop Manager and DeskSpace I wanted to write a little tool that'd let me have multiple desktops on Vista. It's nowhere near as good as either of those tools...
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  • Holding down the power button

    This is a bit of a sad tale. I came to my laptop this morning and it said that I had no network connectivity. I did an ipconfig and saw that I had no ipaddress. I did an ipconfig /renew and I got an error saying "no adapter is in a suitable state" (I'm sure...
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  • Desktop Icon "Ghosting" bug?

    I keep encountering what feels like a bug. Not sure if it's in the DWM or Explorer or the driver or what. I dragged a file called capture.jpg from my desktop into Messenger and I'm left with a "ghost" icon which floats above the desktop and on top of any other...
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