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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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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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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:29 AM

Vista & Windows Side by Side Assemblies

Now almost everyone knows at least what Vista's UAC is. But not many people know what Windows Side by Side Assemblies (aka WinSxS ) are. Side by Side Assemblies are Microsoft's attempt to evade the DLL hell Windows terror (DLLs currently in use, overriding...
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Monday, April 23, 2007 9:09 PM

Sensationalist News & Tergiversation

It's curious how even in internet "the news" manipulate and tergiversate information to make it more interesting, dramatic, or like in this example, worse than really is. Let's take a news post from The Register (a sensationalist site which from time...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:06 AM

An excellent article about Windows Vista

I've finished reading an interesting article about Windows Vista , interesting because is oriented for technical people (IT, developers and advanced users). It's the first article of three that will be published, but gives a good overview of some of the...
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