January 2007

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Troubleshooting Performance Issues with Automatic Updates

…or,How to Isolate A Shared Service Hosted by SVCHOST.EXEThere are a number of articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base about performance issues with Windows Update / Microsoft Update, as well as other problems related to the scanning mechanisms used…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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New Release of Windows Sidebar Styler

An updated version of Windows Sidebar Styler (v2.0.5) has been made available. Please check the previous post for download links as well as updated documentation.
Additions include support for Gadget resource localization, translations of the application UI, as well as fixed issues with VAIO. If you are interested in helping localize Windows Sidebar Styler in your [...]

Written by Stanimir Stoyanov on January 25th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Vista Features You’ll Never See

A quick one this week…Ran into an interesting posting at shell: revealed about features of Longhorn that didn’t make the cut. The post paints the picture that after the Longhorn reset (described here), a lot of features were yanked, and then goes on …

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 24th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Passed my First MCSE Exam 70 - 290

Well on Friday the 12′th I passed the first of six exams to come this 6 months.I passed with a score of 871.The simulations were a bit akward because they tend to disable some things I normally do, like right clicking my computer….

Written by Teus on January 19th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Fix Available for Performance Problems with Internet Explorer 7’s Phishing Filter

I don’t know how I missed it (well, I suspect it’s related to quirks in the method(s) in which Microsoft makes notifications of new KB articles available), but it seems that Microsoft has released an update to Internet Explorer 7 to address the perform…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Unspecified Potential Security Risk!

Oh, my. Two weeks in a row with ambiguous security-related messages from a web browser.This week, we have the following:Internet ExplorerThis page has an unspecified potential security risk.Would you like to continue?If it wasn’t for the fact that I wa…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 17th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows Sidebar Styler

A new version of Windows Sidebar Styler available. Click here for more information.

Windows Sidebar Styler is an application which takes advantage of various technologies introduced in Windows Vista in order to provide extensions to the existing functionality of Windows Sidebar.
Custom styles allow users to customize the appearance of Windows Sidebar so that it fits [...]

Written by Stanimir Stoyanov on January 17th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Puritanical Security? And a Few Other Notes on HTML Help

I was going through some CHM help files the other day and I wound up copying one of the links to the clipboard and tossing it into Maxthon. I wasn’t even really aware of what I was doing (just plodding along mindlessly) so I was rather surprised when I…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on January 10th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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