Category Archives: Hall of Shame

Look, I’m Not Going To Tell You Again

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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Presentation Server Client 10 still uses Windows Help

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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TweakVI encourages users to turn off UAC

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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Safely Remove Hardware, gets a facelift, almost

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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Intel Graphics and the Dynamically Generated DLL

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Aaron Parker

I’ve recently noticed a DLL file from Intel that keep reappearing on my system drive and I’ve tracked this down to the display software on my laptop – I’ve recently moved to a Dell laptop that has an Intel 945GM … Continue reading →

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