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When I’ve started new Visual Studio projects on my Vista x64 box, the Company field would always show up as “Microsoft”… somewhat presumptuous and definitely annoying.  At first I thought the problem was with the templates, but upon inspection they...
I downloaded the SQL 2008 Upgrade Advisor. When I tried to install it I got this :     It says a “Windows service pack” , yet Windows Update tells me my system is up to date.  Well it might help if I read the download’s system requirements...
I really like the preview pane in explorer in Vista, but it doesn’t have previews for a lot of text based files registered.  You can of course write your own or download and install some other preview filters, but personally I find a text preview...
I turn off Aero and themes, and all is good except for the start menu shut down and log-off icons which are just incredibly ugly: Notice the search icon is showed in colour, but the shut down and log-off are some crappy black and white images. What the...
Over the weekend I switched my main machine to Windows 2008 and started playing with Hyper-V. I updated the RAM and threw in another hard-drive (man that stuff is so cheap at present !). I've got both Vista and Windows 2008 (different drives) on the...