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Monday, November 26, 2007 4:22 PM

Nice recovery...

I was working with Visual Studio and a few other applications, and put the computer to sleep while I took a break. Shortly after I resumed the computer did a hard restart. I presume it is something to did with Vista and the power management, but the nice...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:04 AM

Is Vista more secure ?

Kathleen talks about security being Vistas biggest asset .... for me, a power user who use to run XP in limited access mode, using run as admin scripts, it isn't really anymore secure. In fact, I now find it harder to find a good software firewall...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:45 PM

Update on Snippet Editor

I've finally given the Snippet Editor a major make over including a new look. To go with this, I've given it a new home on my web site: http://billmccarthy.com/Projects/Snippet_Editor And I've added a Snippets category to this blog for feedback...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:49 PM

Snippet Editor 2008 release

I've updated the Snippet editor to work with Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 releases. Note this release requires .NET 3.5. Changes/fixes: Added 2008 product range to the list of products Fixed replacement of the install root variable for Visual Studio...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:55 PM

WebDAV fix for Vista

If you're using Windows Vista and are unable to add a web folder (http network location), and you're getting error message like : "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another." Then try downloading an installing...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:37 AM

Vista seems so hard...

I've only been seriously on Vista for a week or so, but so far I have found many frustrations, thankfully I've managed to work around. They removed the ability to mark a file type as "Prompt to download". You use to get to this via file...
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