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Monday, January 21, 2008 12:15 AM

KB946932: Disabling UAC Prompt for certain apps. Not that useful...

When I found a reference earlier today to this interesting KB I thought " wow, maybe I can finally get rid of the UAC prompts on my gaming PC " (I won't remove them from the development PC under any circumnstance), so I've just finished...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:31 PM

Dark color themes support on Windows

All my friends know that my favourite color is black. I wear black, my iPod is black, my phone is black... And of course both my Vista Aero and Office 2007 are in black color :) But recently my friend Lobo666 sent me his "Darkness theme", which...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:24 PM

Fighting with Windows XP

Last night, after coming early home I decided to install Windows XP Professional 64, to play the (growing) list of Vista-incompatible games and to not need to tweak DirectX (after Crysis , I've lost my faith in DirectX 10, it just slows down any game...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 9:18 PM

ExitWindowsEx not working with Windows XP if computer is locked

Just a quick post of a problem I addressed today while finishing my current assignment. I used the ExitWindowsEx() API call to logoff the user (with the force close flag). In Vista it worked without any problem, logging out the user whenever he was using...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:31 PM

Quick tips for developing under Windows Vista

Now that I'm having quite a lot of development (and fighting with the OS) under Vista, here you are some quick tips that will help you a lot to develop efficiently with Visual Studio 2005. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:25 PM

Flash Player under Windows Vista and IE7 not working

A small troubleshooting and how to fix it. Problem : Internet Explorer 7 under Windows Vista doesn't plays flash elements (such as Youtube or Soapbox videos). You install the Adobe Flash Player 9 component, restart and still don't works. Answer : Download...
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