March 2008 - Posts
I wanted to elevate a response to one of the comments on an earlier post to the status of a full post, so it's hopefully a bit more discoverable. The author writes: "I would't mind dismissing Yet Another Popup, if it would have the decency to pop up already.
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I figured this day would come, and to be honest, I'm a little bit surprised it took as long as it did for me to run into this in the wild. But this week, I finally came across an installer that somebody had devised which would check to see if UAC was
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...but I fixed it. And I thought you might like to know how to fix it if you run into the issue. So first, the problem. I was trying to launch IECTT and found this MessageBox: --------------------------- Test Tool Error --------------------------- The
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A little while ago, I was investigating the customer experience data on elevations which we use to identify which applications are triggering the greatest number of elevation prompts on Windows Vista (and hopefully do something about it). Working with
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In Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista, we removed the Search button from the Start Menu . While we discuss how to get there in this article, I'm finding that a number of people aren't finding this. Windows-F brings up your default desktop search provider.
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