November 2006 - Posts
The release candidate of the Application Compatibility Toolkit is here, and it's good stuff. I've had to resort to sniffing around with a debugger to find many issues with this one, and it's still improving for the final release! I am particularly impressed
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I have run into a few scenarios where people want to be able to block access to Windows Explorer so that they can do something such as update the system in a machine that is otherwise publicly facing. One possibility is to create a desktop all your own.
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I ran into an interesting problem this week trying to get a legacy application running on Windows Vista. If you ran the installer, it would fail, claiming that it was unable to register a required component. So, I grabbed the ocx it was trying to install
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I ran into an interesting situation with a customer's application the other day. You would try to install the application, and it would prompt for a reboot. OK, so it couldn't grab that file handle yet, I'll go ahead and let it. After a reboot, the installation
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