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MSFeedsSync - feeds Synchronization has stopped working issue
Sunday, August 03, 2008 9:59 PM

Recently (and quite randomly I might add), I had an error dialog popup continuously, every 5-10 minutes which read: " MSFeeds Synchronization has stopped working (2054)" It was driving me crazy and was unsure how to resolve. There is actually not that much on the net about but this post got me going in the right direction. Basically, I first disabled the service... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Community News, General, Vista

Visual Studio 2008 - Install Problems and Solutions
Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:19 PM

Ok, maybe this has already been blogged about in various places, but I am going to list my steps that were required for me to get Visual Studio 2008 to install properly under Vista. My previous situation was: Had Installed VS2008 Release Candidate I tried the following when I went to install VS2008 RTM: Uninstalled VS2008 RC Install of RTM failed. Uninstalled... Read More...

by Glav | 28 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, General, Vista, Visual Studio, Windows

Outlook 2007 - Just fix it - My Rant
Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:30 PM

Warning: Rant to follow: Ok, I know Outlook 2007 is a complicated piece of software. I know its gone through a whole series of revisions. Could I make a better piece of software? Well I'd like to think so, but the people at Microsoft are smart people so it could be debatable. What I do know? Outlook 2007 is significantly less stable for me than Outlook 2003 ever... Read More...

by Glav | 19 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, General, readify, Vista, Windows

Advanced Options Screen
Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:27 PM

Here is a screen shot of the only available options screen for my audio device on Vista. It just happens to be an "Advanced" options screen. Hate to see the simplified one.... Read More...

by Glav | with no comments

Filed under: General, Personal, Vista, Windows

RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007 - Part 2. Bye bye Outlook
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:08 PM

The other day, I posted about my issues with Outlook 2007 and its handling of my RSS feeds. I tried a number of things to fix it, the latest effort being to export all my feeds, delete all of them from Outlook, then re-import. Didn't work, dates were still all wrong. I have to say I am very disappointed. I enjoyed the convenience of having my feeds in Outook... Read More...

by Glav | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, General, Personal, Vista, Windows, Winforms

RSS Feeds in Outlook 2007 not working
Saturday, September 01, 2007 3:14 PM

There have been many posts bemoaning the RSS support in Outlook 2007 and I generally agree, however the convenience of having it nicely searchable in Outlook 2007 is a massive bonus for so I have lived with all the other issues. However, lately all my feeds have stopped updating. I looked at this post but all seemed ok on my system. All services running and registry... Read More...

by Glav | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, General, readify, Vista

Windows Easy Transfer
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:50 PM

I just got me a new Dell XPS M1710 with all the bells and whistles. I thought this would be a good opportunity to try out the Windows Easy Transfer as my old Dell had Windows Vista already installed on it. I must say, it was quite painless and pretty damn easy. Backed up to a USb removable drive, then did some basic setup on my new laptop, such as joining my... Read More...

by Glav | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Community News, General, readify, Vista, Windows