Category Archives: Microsoft

Apple Magic Mouse Sleeping on Win7

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

My bluetooth Magic Mouse kept falling asleep. Here’s how to keep it away. Continue reading →

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NTFS on OS X

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Trying to write to an NTFS volume on OS X, and all you find are third party packages and complicated config file manipulations asking you to reboot? Do this…. Continue reading →

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C# Must Haves

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Resources for quickly getting up to speed on C#. Continue reading →

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Defined in Multiple Assemblies

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

The predefined type ‘System.Func’ is defined in multiple assemblies in the global alias … mscorlib.dll and System.Core.dll. SOLVED! Continue reading →

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Error 0×80070057 (SOLVED)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Copy File

An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.

Error 0×80070057: The parameter is incorrect.

SOLVED! Continue reading →

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WPF Responsiveness Problem

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Ran into an interesting problem where a WPF application was acting really, really, really slow. So slow that moving the application window was jumpy. Selecting items in a grid would take several seconds. Scrolling a list box of simple items … Continue reading →

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Find and Replace in Word using C# .NET

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Solution to how to do a global search and replace in MS-Word, including across floating text objects, in C#/.NET. Continue reading →

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Sticky Fingers: Logitech Mouse

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Ok, not making this up. It’s been so long since I used my home Windows system that the plastic on my mouse is decomposing. Literally. Not the rubber. The plastic housing. The hard plastic. Continue reading →

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Vista DeFrag Sucks

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Vista’s Disk Defrag leave a lot to be desired. Here’s how to you can defrag your disk for sure. Continue reading →

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Dell Inspiron E1505 Mouse Pointer Problem

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

The cursor on a new Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics card running XP Home looks like a vertical bar, not a pointer. Here’s the fix. Continue reading →

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