Jerry's Incoherent Babbling

If your company has pursued the holy grail of the "single workstation image" like mine has (and we got there with Windows XP, woohoo!), you may be wondering if your tools are up to the challenge of doing a single build process with Windows Vista...

When is an open standard not open? It seems that Adobe reserves the right to tell some folks PDF is open, and other folks that it isn't. For years, PDF has been a standard portable (and open) format on the internet. Many ISV's and open source projects...

Unfortunately, at some point Microsoft dropped support for the network card that VMWare emulates. If you recall WinPE 1.1, it loaded the network fine in VMWare. Alas that is no longer the case with Vista PE (also known as PE 2.0). All is not lost however...

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...

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...

If you are a developer, IT administrator, or application packager you should know about manifest files and how they interact with Windows to control how your applications run. Manifests were first supported with Windows XP and were commonly used to do...

With Windows Vista, you now have UAC or "User Account Control", sometimes known as PA or "Protected Admin". What does this mean in a practical sense? Well, for instance let's say you take a domain account (or a new local account) and place it in the Administrators...

Have you ever hit this scenario? The phone rings, and you answer it. You say "hello?" (or if you like to mess with people you say "Gut?" or "¿Hola?"). Then, a recorded voice comes on with "Please hold for an impor". This is cut off in the middle and music...