February 2006 - Jerry's Incoherent Babbling

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Vista Feb CTP contains service session 0 mitigation code. Cool!

If you're an IT Pro or a developer, you've probably taken an interest in the new session seperation in Windows Vista. This is the new design in Windows Vista that moves users out of "session 0" and reserves session 0 for services and drivers. Unfortunately...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2006 2:14 PM by Jerry
Windows Vista Feb CTP Performance Problems? Try removing Windows Explorer!

This one is from the "Who thought that one up" department (or the "You must be smoking crack" department). On several machines with the February CTP build (5308) of Vista we've seen either the performance center or the problem troubleshooter come up with...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2006 4:44 PM by Jerry
Trouble signing on as THE Administrator on 5308?

Those of you who have hurriedly downloaded the Windows Vista Feb CTP (build 5308) may have noticed something sinister: unless you join a domain, it is awfully difficult to logon to the built in Administrator account. To work around this using AutoLogon...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2006 2:24 PM by Jerry
Common Dialog: How useless you’ve become

So when you saw the title Common Dialog you were probably thinking about some rough verbiage from a B movie. But being computer geeks, what we are really talking about here is the CFD or Common File Dialogs. If you’ve ever click “File” | “Open” then you...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2006 8:30 AM by Jerry

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