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Snipping Tool on Vista
In a comment on my post about problems running Cropper on Vista, Chris Hammond pointed out the Snipping Tool that's built into Vista (Programs, Accessories. I wasn't aware of this tool - it's really quite cool! It allows you to draw a rectangle...

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 10:58 AM by kevindente | with no comments

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Vista Issue for Application Developers - Notification Icon Color Schemes
One of the implications of the new Vista look and feel that I hadn't considered before upgrading is the effects of the new Explorer color scheme. In particular, I've noticed that some notification icons (I won't call them tray icons lest Raymond beat...

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:24 PM by kevindente | 1 comment(s)

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Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper
One of the unfortunate casualties of my upgrade to Vista has been Cropper , the excellent screen capture tool from Brian Scott. It seems that desktop composition wreaks havoc with Cropper's ability to capture screen shots correctly - the Cropper overlay...

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:47 PM by kevindente | 10 comment(s)

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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...

Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 8:28 PM by kevindente | 2 comment(s)

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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...

Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 8:13 PM by kevindente | 4 comment(s)

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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...

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:21 PM by kevindente | 35 comment(s)

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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...

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:43 PM by kevindente | with no comments

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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...

Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:06 PM by kevindente | with no comments

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