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I ran across a post on the Vista Compatibility Team Blog entitled “SetThreadPriority from Run key” that discusses a change in Vista whereby calling SetThreadPriority from an application launched from the Startup folder and the “Run” key in the registry…
Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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I know many of you have heard the good and bad about Vista, but do not want to risk a machine by installing it. Microsoft feels your pain, and has a new website dedicated to giving Vista a spin without any of the trouble.First you have the Windows Vist…
Written by Steve Wiseman on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Another Mac vs PC add, this one mentioning people going back to XP, or having to buy new peripherals. They are certainly seeming more hypocritical with Leopard having so many issues.
Written by Joe on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows XP stores a couple of values in its registry which are responsible for determining how long to wait before shutting down (killing) open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given.
By editing these two settings and changing them to lower values, you can considerably decrease the amount of time that Windows XP [...]
Written by Jason on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Chris Pirillo says “I’m so tired of people saying that the problems are with Vista, instead of blaming themselves! I mean seriously. It’s not Vista’s fault you buy crappy hardware. It’s not Vist …”
Written by Joe on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Group Policy MVP Darren Mar-Elia has released some new PS cmdlets for handling Group Policy Objects using PowerShell.Check them out here:http://www.gpoguy.com/powershell.htmI hope you’ll like it!/Jakob
Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows XP contains several tweakable memory settings in the registry, one of which is the DisablePagingExecutive registry key. This controls whether the operating system will transfer its essential driver and kernel files to the ‘virtual memory’ (the page file on the hard disk). It defaults to allowing this.
Obviously, transferring portions of the system to hard [...]
Written by Jason on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Here’s a simple tip to clean your system in seconds.
This works only for Windows XP
On your desktop, create a new shortcut and instead of browsing for a file, write down this shortcut-
%windir%system32rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
Click Next - and name it “Whatever you want(literally)â€.
And then open the shortcut when ever you feel that your system is running low [...]
Written by Jason on November 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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