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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 and so, generally, I run the risk and I stop...
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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. So far it seems fine - the performance feels...
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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-8c21-5963fb7b227e.aspx to disable it permanently...
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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 :-) and it's just a "work in progress"...
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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 you've seen this one in your time). I went...
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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 windows. You can see it here; The capture...