I installed Google Desktop Search on Vista, but left the Vista search alive as well, so I’m indexing everything twice. I’m sure I’ll shut that off at some point, but it’s interesting in that it gives me the ability to search my system with both tools and compare the results. One significant result is that […]
I don’t trust Vista’s search at all, but I still try it first when I’m searching for something, just to see if I get lucky. Today, I was looking for something that exists in my OneNote notebook, and has been there for at least a year. So I click Start, and type in the text. […]
My XBox 360 is broken again. And this time, they’re not sending me a box to ship it back in, I’ve got to package it up myself. Bah. Same problem as last time – looks like the drive went bad. I use it for media and XBLA games more than I do discs, and I […]
On the one hand, I’m impressed as heck that Vista managed to deal with a display driver crash while I was playing a game without even interrupting the game. On the other hand, my display driver shouldn’t be crashing… “Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.” Nothing in the event log…
I tried, for the first time, to put the computer to sleep. I wanted to start doing that at night, since my computer really isn’t doing anything vital at night, and each computer that’s on 24/7 is probably costing me $25 or so per month in power. And this led to my first Vista BSOD […]
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who’s not impressed with the Media Center functionality in Vista. This post on The Green Button summarizes most of my complaints, but in addition I have one more, that annoys me more than any of these. When I hit the “skip 30 second” or “skip back […]
I just went through a particularly bizarre sequence of creating a problem and fixing it, with Vista, that I thought I’d relate. My freshly built Vista media center was giving me file system errors. From the event log: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on […]
If you run into the error “Windows Media Center Extender setup cannot configure the Windows Media Center PC” with error code -109, while trying to add an XBox 360 as a Media Center Extender to Vista, it means you’re not logged in to the Media Center as a user with admin rights. It’s not a […]
Two executives in charge of Microsoft’s XBox Live Arcade have recently left: Greg Canessa and Ross Erickson. Frankly, I think this is good news. I don’t know these guys, I don’t know their history, but they’ve been in charge of XBox Live Arcade, and that service is doing a terrible job. Ross’s title was “Worldwide Games […]
ReadyBoost is intriguing and I’ve been wanting to play with it since I first installed Vista, but my 1 gig USB memory stick tests as too slow, so ReadyBoost refuses to use it. While reading part 2 of Mark Russinovich’s excellent series on the Vista kernel, I came across his screenshot of the EMDMgmt registry […]