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Category Archives: Hall of Shame

Look, I’m Not Going To Tell You Again

09-Apr-07

Here’s an amusing dialog box that was displayed when Battlefield 2142 crashed the other day:

I dare not click Continue since I shouldn’t have been there in the first place and I don’t know what sort of trouble Try Again would have got me into..
(This one’s an entry in the Hall of Shame because Battlfield crashes [...]

Presentation Server Client 10 still uses Windows Help

11-Mar-07

Gee, I expected a little more than this from Citrix - the new Presentation Server Client version 10 is still using the old 16-bit Windows Help format (.HLP). What’s the problem with this you say? Well, Windows Help is no longer included with Windows Vista and Microsoft have been discouraging its’ use for some time [...]

TweakVI encourages users to turn off UAC

11-Mar-07

TweakVI is a tweaking and “optimisation” application from Totalidea that is essentially a front end for a large number of registry settings that you can enable or disable to change the behaviour of features in Windows Vista. The application is mainly aimed at power users but I would assume that some slightly less power users [...]

Safely Remove Hardware, gets a facelift, almost

07-Mar-07

There are quite a few design choices in Windows Vista that have me baffled, especially where an interface change to me seems quite logical but Microsoft have not implemented one. The Safely Remove Hardware feature is one such change.
In Windows Vista there are two ways to prepare a device for removal before actually physically disconnecting [...]