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I’ve run into this exact same problem 3 times now in one week, so I figure that probably doesn’t bode well and I should attempt to do something about it. With 3 different pieces of software (one of them ours), the remote control functionality is imperfectly
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I have had the Stock Viewer Shim Demo application available for over a year now, and I'm delighted at how much impact it has had. I see people using this all the time! But previously it was available only in English. Well, no more - it has now been (mostly)
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Updated March 16, 2009: Somebody updated these links with the 4.0 version (which kind of defeats the purpose of having these links so I’m not sure what they were thinking) but they’re back to the 3.x version now. Hey, there’s a new version of Application
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I met the guys from RunAs Radio back in Barcelona, and a couple weeks ago I had a chance to sit down and chat with them. Check it out .
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I’m still catching up with requests to talk about stuff – here’s one that came in back in June (and just came again today from somebody else): “MoveIniToRegistry clearly requires parameters, but there's no documentation defining what these are.
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Here is a topic I have been saying “I’ll get to it” for a while now… We’ve talked a lot about UAC here, and I have really stressed the point that standard users shouldn’t be able to affect other users or the machine itself, and if you want to violate
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The same question came up two times in 26 minutes (on the same discussion list, no less), so I figured I’d answer it once here as that seems a reasonable indicator that others may have the same question. What is the deal with shimming on Windows Vista
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I had a conversation with a customer (via email) the other day, and I wanted to to into a bit of detail here explaining what is going on. Essentially, the customer was attempting to pass information to another application while launching it using environment
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I’m apparently going for a record, trying to see if I can spend the entire month of October jet-lagged. So far, so good (just got back from Singapore)… Anyway, I like free stuff as much as far more than the next guy. So, I figured I’d pass this one along
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A question came up via comments. (I was going to say that it came up recently, but another glance reveals that it came up in, oh, June. I don’t think I can fairly call that recent…) “…the fix seems only to work if the directory structure exists…” This
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When you come across issues debugging applications, there are typically several ways to solve them. Today, I'm going to pick on our own stuff and throw a few different shims at it. Interestingly enough, what I'm going to be shimming up will be the tool
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It's been a couple of months since we released the Windows Vista Compatibility Center , and while I meant to discuss it at the time, it's still worth a little chat. I talk quite a bit about the tools to test for application compatibility, sharing debugging
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It seems like just yesterday I was posting about ACT 5.0.2 being released, but we just released ACT 5.0.3 . Now, I've had a couple of people confused about the version numbers we talk about, and what they actually see. For, rather unfortunately, you didn't
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I had a comment come up on an earlier post : "FYI, I've hit a limitation with CorrectFilePaths - the maximum amount of data that can be entered in the parameter field is 512 bytes - not enough to fix more than 2 files under "Program Files" unfortunately..."
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If you run the Internet Explorer Compatibility Evaluator on Windows Vista, you get back some data when an ActiveX control tries to write to a file that a standard user used to be able to write to. However, that data doesn't show up when you are using
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