Richard Fennell : Windows 7

Red button works in the BBC Interactive

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:28:20 GMT

Cool, I just noticed that on Windows 7 Media Center with a Hauppauge Nova 500 T Tuner card the red button works; so at last I can get Digital Teletext and interactive channels on the BBC without having to know their actual channel numbers (and as I remember...(read more)

Timeouts on Bitlocker to go

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:51:16 GMT

Since moving to Windows 7 I have encrypted all my USB pen drives and external USB disk drives with Bitlocker to go . This has been working great for me, I have noticed no performance problems and it give nice piece of mind. The only irritation is when...(read more)

Updating Windows 7 Beta to RC

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:24:24 GMT

The upgrade took about 2 hours following the ‘ enable in-place upgrade ’ notes. There was a lot of no progress bar movement & percentages not changing whilst the disk light flashed, but we got there in the end. Thus far all seems OK. so the summary...(read more)

Licensing exception with Ivonna the Typemock add-in (and any other add-ins I suspect)

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:51:37 GMT

Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily...(read more)

Error 1722 when installing MVC 1.0

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:09:53 GMT

As I am sure you will have heard the MVC 1.0 has been released. I downloaded this on my Windows 7 and tried to install it but got an Error 1722, the MSI then rolled back. Turns out the problem was simply that I had Visual Studio open at the time I installed...(read more)

Problem hosting WCF using Cassini on Windows 7

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:41:56 GMT

I have been working on an internal legacy application at our place that is being slowly moved from ASMX to WCF services. At present the services are a mixture of the two and there is a new WCF based client making connections to both types as needed. This...(read more)

Installing an MSI on Windows 7 fails after 16th January 2009

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:18:46 GMT

I am using Windows 7 Beta on my main PC, whilst trying to install an application today I hit a problem, the installer failed on start-up. Firstly I thought it was a corrupt MSI so I tried another application, but it did the same. When I checked the Windows...(read more)