Archives
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Vista Issue of the Day - Firefox 2.0 CPU Utilization
OK, this isn't really a problem with Vista per-se. But I've noticed that when running Firefox 2.0 on Vista, it's constantly spinning the CPU at 15-25%. Restarting Firefox doesn't seem to help, I have just a few tabs open, and they aren't doing much of anything, And yet the CPU utilization for the process is constantly between 15-25%. I certainly didn't have the problem on XP. Is anyone else seeing this?
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Vista Update - No UAC for you, one year!
Unfortunately, I've had to disable UAC on my Vista install. I was hoping to run with it enabled, at least for a while, so I could grok the issues of developing with and for it. Sadly, it seems somewhat broken on my machine. As I described previously Most of my Control Panel applets, as well as some other apps (like RegEdit) simply failed to run with UAC enabled, displaying a "path not found" error. A few I could work around using Run As Administrator, but in many spots I didn't even have that option.
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Vista Issue of the Day - Remote Desktop Kills Local Desktop
After upgrading my machine to Vista yesterday, I went home and connected to it via Remote Desktop (from an XP client). It worked fine. However, when I came in to work this morning, I found both my screens blank and unresponsive - I got a mouse cursor and that's it. I could still connect to the machine through Remote Desktop and all my apps were still running fine, but sitting down at the machine, I got nothing. The only thing I could do was remotely restart the machine.
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Upgrade to Vista complete
At long last I've upgraded my machine to Vista. Yes, I used the "u" word. Although I'm usually a clean-install kind of guy, I just got my machine a couple of months ago, and didn't have the heart to rebuild it all from scratch. So I took a chance and went the upgrade route.
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Understanding the Rules for Vista Aero Glass Support
I've been pondering upgrading to Vista over the last couple of days, but hadn't pulled the trigger because of uncertainty about support for Aero glass on my machine. In particular, I run dual 20" monitors at 1600x1200 resolution per monitor, and wasn't sure if the 128 MB of video memory on my video card was sufficient to support glass in this configuration. Lots of Googling didn't turn up any answers, so I turned to the always reliable win_tech_off_topic group.