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Never would have thought I’d end up on Page 1 of a Google search for unused Halo 1 product key… sure enough. Obviously, I would never broadcast a perfectly-good product key across the Internet; I’d keep it for my own selfish gains. Nonetheless, I find it funny. Y’see, I complained about Halo 1, and I […]

41. Why is Firefox faster on Vista than Internet Explorer?
42. Give me a way to get Windows 2000/XP window behavior and Aero Glass visuals at the same time. Just because I like it to be attractive doesn’t mean I should have to look at the bloat and have bad keyboard navigation too.
43. The Mouse Control […]

1. DWM (Desktop Window Manager, the service that runs Aero) is consuming 158MB “Working Set”, which I believe to be non-paged RAM.
2. Still has crappy multi-monitor support. Even if I overlook the fact that I had to get a driver written this month to get all my adapters to run Aero Glass, Windows Vista still […]

I’ve been researching possible causes and fixes for my issue with Aero Glass. That is, it doesn’t work and it should.
Synopsis: Aero Glass worked when I had one ATI Radeon X1600 (AGP 8x, 256MB) card and two monitors plugged in. My experience with the initial Windows Vista Beta (RTM, not SP1) led me to believe […]

Let me begin by saying I am a power user, and as such many things in my environment are different from a lower breed of user. My Vista system has six monitors and some of the best DDR2 RAM money can buy. I have a server at home with nearly 4TB of total storage.
I’m an […]

Geez, there are alot of services in Windows Vista that just help themselves to an automatic startup…
Tablet PC Input Service: It’s not a tablet PC. Why, then, do you assume I would want the services of a Tablet PC input device I don’t have? Seriously.
Diagnostic Policy Service and Diagnostic System Host: Both “enable problem detection, […]

Some of you will recall my previous entry regarding my enrollment in the Windows Vista SP1 Beta. The plan was to download the first available image, install three of the same video card (to acheive what Microsoft calls a “Homogenous Multi-Adapter Configuration” - That is, all three cards on the same driver), and use it […]

There are few things in life that annoy me more than the Catch-22. So often in life, we get software we have major problems with; but which we cannot remove.
Allow me to provide an example. I recently upgraded my webcam to a Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP. Bad product naming schemes aside, this peripheral came with […]

Long ago, on a previous version of the blog whose data is long gone, I blogged about being on the Beta for Windows Codename Longhorn and (later) Windows Vista. When it went RTM, I received a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition RTM Build 2600 as a thank-you for the dozens of bugs I […]

So I had played Halo 1 awhile and was totally disappointed by the crippleware Microsoft turned a once-promising Bungie product into. Based on my disappointment, I skipped Halo 2. Now, however, that I learned about the Halo 3 Beta being over, I kind of want to try it. Unfortunately, it looks like that will be […]