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If you have installed Visual Studio you will notice the Windows Runtime Debugger has been replaced with the “Just-In-Time Debugger”. Sometimes this is Ok, but if you are running jobs that need to be running silence, then this is not always a good thing.

So what to do? Just change the Windows Runtime Debugger back to Dr Watson. You can do this by using the command drwtsn32 -i. Just run it in a command prompt and the Windows Runtime Debugger is back to Dr. Watson.

I just installed the ExpandIT Online Connector on a Server which is running the 64bit version of Windows 2003.

The Installation went well – and everything seams to be running – until I noticed, that the ASP pages could not use the ActiveX object for the ExpandIT Online Connector.

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Like or not – but so far as I can see, Microsoft has downgraded the defragmentation functionality in Vista.

First, the user interface has changed. There is no progress bar, no elapsed time and no remaining time shown. Also what happened to the information about fragmentations (how fragmentated is my disc, files). Read the rest of this entry »

Are you also annoyed by Windows Vista’s User Account Control?
If Yes – there is a way to turn it of

Before you turn off User Account Control, then be aware off why you are doing this. User Account Control is build in by Microsoft to improve Vista’s security. So if you only are annoyed because of the popup messages – then consider to use TweakUAC to set UAC in quit mode instead of turning it off.
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Many people will tell you that it is not possible to run at 32 bit version of XP with more than 3 GB Ram. They say that XP would not recognize the Ram above the 3 GB – actually for most of you XP will show the 3 GB as 2,5.

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A quick way to view your IP address is by using the command IPCONFIG.

Just start a command prompt:

Start -> Run -> Cmd

and then type:

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