Ran across these couple of tips on the Internet the other day, and thought I would pass them along... First, my own tip, make sure you have the latest video driver installed... chances are pretty good that your video card is the lowest ranked item in
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[Not an april fools post!] Finally, Ultramon gets Vista support... While this is only a beta release, Ultramon has been one of those things I missed the most; definitely one of those must have tools... In the early betas of Vista, it looked as if Microsoft
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So Gartner says windows is dead, don't even get me started, I would need a better sense of humor in order to print their latest "predictions" on my toiletries. Earlier this month, Microsoft closed down the Enormous Windows Vista Beta program over at connect,
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Vista is set to RTM this month (October) but as a tester, I find myself wondering if its really ready; my initial reaction was a quick "no way". Upon further reflection though I see the need for this move. I am using Vista on my main systems, and have
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IE conforms to the HTTP 1.1 spec, which requires that clients cant have more than two active connections to a site at any one time.. This means that your third request (say you are downloading two files, and click to browse for a third) will be "on-hold"
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Attachment(s): 10_connections_per_server.reg
This morning, Microsoft has released the official Vista Beta 2 (build 5384) to both connect beta participants and the MSDN subscribers. While a preliminary build of this release (5381) was made available to beta testers earlier this month, this release
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Just came in the e-mail... I had a little help from some people "on the inside" to get my name added to the list... Stay tuned =) Dan
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So the theme service is disabled on Windows 2003; you can just go and enable this service under the service control manager, and start it... No big deal... But under my x64 OS, if I set it to start automatically, my system hangs during boot... it stops
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So I have been coding on a Windows 2003 x64 server lately, and decided to port CruiseControl.NET to a 64 bit app... well really all it needed was a recompile. I built it with the x64 framework v2.0.50215... I really only use the CCTray app (to monitor
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