Tag Archives: Windows

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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Competitors?

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

An opinion piece: are Apple and Microsoft competitors? This line of reasoning says no. 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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Reactive Framework conflict (SOLVED)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

The type ‘System.IObservable exists in both ‘c:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\mscorlib.dll’ and ‘c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Reactive Extensions\Redist\DesktopV2\System.Observable.dll’ (SOLVED) 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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Drag’n'Drop Problems with Parallels 4

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Since installing Snow Leopard, I can no longer Drag’n'Drop files from Windows to the hosting OS X environment, though the inverse works just fine. Is anyone else having this problem, because I’m not seeing much about it on the Parallel’s forums. I think the bug is real. Continue reading →

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Clever Bulk Rename Trick in Windows

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

Stumbled into a clever way to rename a bunch of files to have the same prefix and a sequential numbered suffix… from the Windows GUI no less. Continue reading →

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Is AVG killing windows Remote Desktop?

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

Today terminal services stopped working, and I could no longer remote in to my Windows box. At the moment, speculation suggests it appears to be a false-positive by AVG. Continue reading →

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