This message, “No items match your search”, seems to imply that items were searched, and no matches were found. But, on Vista, it also means “None of the items in the index match your search”. There might be items that match your search, but maybe Vista hasn’t indexed them yet, or maybe Vista is indexing […]
Another little “what were they thinking” Vista tidbit: The control panel has a search box (as do a lot of places in the OS) which seems like a good thing, but let me tell you, nothing is more frustrating than a search box that doesn’t find things that you know are there. Vista’s control panel […]
So I’m trying to figure out how to turn off the flying window animation in Vista, because it’s interfering with something I’m trying to do. XP had a dialog that had the various visual effects the OS was capable of, and you could turn them on and off. The equivalent dialog in Vista doesn’t have […]
This is actually a surprising UAC hole: Any program that Vista identifies as an installer is, after a UAC check, given administrator rights and can install anything, anywhere. If there’s any piece of software I don’t want to give full trust to, it’s an installer. The installer is the first thing I run after I […]
Check out this excerpt from Jeffery Snover’s post on the PowerShell Cheat Sheet: Given that I posted it a week before the Office 2007 launch, it turned out that not many people could read that so I posted it in PDF format as well. It now turns out that the corporate direction is to use […]
Today’s Vista annoyance: Explorer refuses to rename files to names that start with a period. I want to rename “htaccess” to “.htaccess” (an Apache configuration file): Trying to hit Enter here gives you: If you use any software that comes from a Unix background, where files that start with a period are common because by […]
I’m trying to burn a 3 gig file to a DVD. I put in the disc, and Windows offers to format it for me. I’ve never used the Live File System disc recording feature so I say “sure” and it goes and formats the disc; this takes about 30 seconds. Live File System writes data […]
Man, I’d hate to be in Microsoft’s shoes. Everything they do is villified, no matter their intentions. Let’s say you have a company, and you make widgets. A competing company also makes widgets. Your competition’s employees have been posting to Wikipedia about Widgets, but the articles on Widgets are not unbiased. They’re biased towards the […]
I keep finding little details I like about Vista, and little details I don’t. Yesterday it was the fact that the Explorer doesn’t update itself when you delete a file the way it used to (sometimes), so I was looking at an Explorer window that was showing me a file that I thought was there, […]
There’s a video on Channel 9 of Charlie Kindel talking about Windows Home Server. It answers a few questions: Windows Home Server is based on a stripped down Windows Server OS. That’s good news, because it makes it more likely that the box will be capable of real server functions. It’s designed as a headless […]