I’m currently working on a project to do automatic Remoting publication of XPO services, and as this is supposed to run as a service, I wanted to put in trace messages. I hope every .NET programmer is aware of the nice tracing framework integrated in the .NET framework (if I caught you here, head here and work your way through the related topics). I wanted to use a TraceSwitch instance and log messages with various levels throughout my code — this was easily done. Then I stumbled upon a prob …
This morning, OneCare told me its status was “fair”, and the detail dialog claimed there were important updates not installed on my computer. Well, here’s what the Vista update dialog has to say to that:
I have reported this issue to the OneCare feedback area, hope it gets fixed.
As posted previously, I have installed the new OneCare beta on my Vista RC1 machine. Now I found that everything’s not perfect with it: it kills connectivity with my Windows Mobile device, which had previously been working nicely. I’ve spent a moment looking around for relevant configuration opportunities and found none. I also looked for log files that might give more insight into the problem, but found none of those either. It’s possible to get a log file out of OneCare, but that doesn’t cont …
My virus scanner of choice had been NOD32 for a pretty long while now, but they don’t seem to be very supportive so far of Vista users. Same goes for ZoneAlarm Pro, which I had been using as a personal firewall solution, mainly for those situations where my laptop runs outside my own network. While the ESET guys (makers of NOD32), or at least their british support franchise, had the courtesy of replying to my mails, ZoneLabs did not, to this date, answer any of my questions about their state of …
The desktop metaphor used to be one of the most clearly distinguishing properties of early graphical user interfaces, and I find that today the desktop still holds great fascination for many people. There are tons of tools out there, apart from what your operating system of choice offers you, to customize the desktop — displaying gadgets and gimmicks, active content that can actually be used instead of only displayed, or simply family photos. The reason I’m taking the time to blog about this i …
Apparenly Vista beta 2 had a nice feature that is supposed to take the place of ActiveSync: the Windows Mobile Device Center. Daniel Moth wrote a few posts about it in the past (here and here), but in RC 1 it’s gone — of course Daniel works for Microsoft these days, so he might not even be aware that the program is not available to us ordinary Vista users :-)
The good news is it’s pretty easy to get the application back. These instructions detail how a registry key has to be created to make V …
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I tried mapping a network drive to a share on my server, using the UNC path \\filer.win.sturmnet.org\sturm. Then I hit the “different user name” link — all this looks exactly like it used to under Windows XP. But it works differently: as soon as I log off and on again, the details about the user name and password to use are lost. The solution was simple: the User Accounts applet in the Control Panel still allows to configure network passwords for an account, but the information I had entered …