Oy vey Microsoft made it a huge pain-in-the-butt to install a newer version of Visual Studio!
It took me no less than 5 hours of my day to uninstall the previous (beta) version (a long, multi-step process), do a boatload of manual cleanup, troubleshoot no fewer than 5 errors with the install of the new [...]
Dumb Little Man found this little tidbit at DWTips that I wanted to pass along. (and offer my own alternative solution as well.)
DW Writes:
Every time you run Adobe Acrobat up to 20 plugins are loaded unnecessarily – most users do not need even a fraction of them!
To disable unneeded plugins and make them optional [...]
Bill Gates made headlines last week when he announced that he’s leaving the company to become a full-time philanthropist. He’s planning to slowly transition out of his current role, with the final departure coming in 2008.
Today Gates sent the following email to Microsoft employees, explaining his plans and his decision.
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Getting rid of that old computer? You might want to consider either hanging on to the hard drive or making sure that it’s been completely erased before you do so – your personal data may be at stake.
If you’re like most computer users, you probably have a few files on your computer that you [...]
Why is Windows XP filled with so many annoying features?
In what might be the most annoying software innovation ever, Microsoft has riddled Windows XP with balloon popups. “Take a tour of Windows XP!” “A wireless network is available!” “A new program has been installed!”
No matter how you slice [...]
Ahh, Firefox – so customizeable.
Unfortunately, it still has a way to go in terms of intuitiveness of design.
Case and point: it’s a breeze to add search engines to Firefox with a single mouse click using the Mozilla addons page. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to delete old or unwanted engines from [...]
I have Comcast cable at home. Overall, the service is pretty good – certainly light years better than the Verizon DSL to which I previously subscribed. One problem that Comcast is plagued by, however, is notoriously slow DNS servers.
For those of you non-technical folks out there, “DNS” stands for “Domain Name [...]
I’m a RedHat Linux guy, but I wanted to try out the Ubuntu Linux distribution to see if it’s an acceptable solution for Linux newbies (who would likely install a dual-boot XP system) or for cash-strapped non-profit groups (who would likely use it as their primary system).
I had no problems setting up [...]
I’m a RedHat Linux guy, but I wanted to try out the Ubuntu Linux distribution to see if it’s an acceptable solution for Linux newbies (who would likely install a dual-boot XP system) or for cash-strapped non-profit groups (who would likely use it as their primary system).
I had no problems setting up the dual-boot XP/Ubuntu [...]
If you’ve ever had to use the task manager (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) to kill a “Not Responding” program, you’ve probably been frustrated by the time it takes for the program to actually disappear from your screen. What’s going on here is that a Microsoft provided tool called “Windows Error Dump Reporting,” or “dumprep.exe,” is creating a [...]
Firefox has long been my web browser of choice. Features such as tabbed browsing, multiple extensions, and intelligent popup blocking make it the most usable browser available.
Lately, however, it seems that more and more popups are managing to get through. I did some checking, and it seems that the Macromedia Flash [...]
By default, Windows XP displays a menu entitled “Recent Documents” in the Start menu.
This list of recently accessed files can be viewed by anyone using your computer, which can make for some uncomfortable circumstances when others sit down at your desktop.
Keep your files more private by turning that list off.
There are 2 ways [...]
