I've been converting my thunderbird email boxes to Windows Mail on Vista. To do this you need to use a tool that convert the mbox format to .eml format. I found this free one that seems to work pretty well: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php Just follow the instructions in #3 "Convert mbox...

The release of Window Clippings 1.1 introduced support for Windows Vista’s desktop composition in an experimental way. I wrote that version before I dug into the Desktop Window Manager and got a better understanding for how windows are rendered on Windows Vista. It worked OK with the early builds...

I just ran across this over on parallels site: http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2006/11/installing-windows-on-mac-is-now.html This sounds like a great feature for their virtualization product. Parallels for OSX is a top notch virtualization product and they just keep on adding features.

Are you finding all the “special folders” in Windows Vista a bit overwhelming? Which are real folders and which are virtualized? Which are profile-specific and which are common to all users? Which are rooted and which are relative? I did too at first. Previous versions of Windows included...

Lenovo just release line of ThinkPad Vista Drivers ... It took them some time... but well they finally did it. I just finished configuring my T60P with the latest drivers... and everything seems to be working great. In the release you can find the long waited ATI FireGL Driver... we can finally display...

One thing that I really hate about IE 7 is that whenever it crashes it doesn't bring back the URLs I was watching... and unfortunately IE7 does tend to crash much more often the Firefox ! IE7Pro add-in among other cool features has a crash recovery feature just like in Firefox :) Finally you can return...

Every developer should have tools like FileMon, RegMon etc... installed on his machine And now its easier then ever as Microsoft grouped together the Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities to a one single suite. Download the SysInternal Suite from here (7.6 Meg of the best tools in town)

Microsoft released today HID - Non-User Input Data Filter as part of the windows update service ... I've just updated my Vista machine and boom.... the Screen saver started to work !!! Well it is about time... It took Microsoft 3 Months to fix this bug ! way way way too long ! You have no idea how joy...

I wanted to install some tools for my presentation about Developer's Toolbox at the Oracle .Net Forum and one of the tools that I wanted to show was Roy's regulator. The regulator was developed and packed via the Visual Studio 2003 Setup Project and the the msi included dependency on Framework 1.1. Currently...

Recently someone asked me what on earth the new QueryIdleProcessorCycleTime function in Windows Vista does. I can understand the confusion considering the documentation is just plain wrong, at least in terms of how the function is used. If you can look beyond the documentation then you will discover...