I just had a weird problem — for some reason IE wouldn’t run my XAF (eXpressApp Framework) web applications (ASP.NET) anymore. At first I suspected some sort of installation problem, since I’d just installed the new 8.1.1 version, and not long ago this used to work just fine. But for some unrelated reasons I uninstalled and reinstalled, and the problem was still the same.

In the URL for the application, I tried replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1 and I found that this solved the problem. I …

I recently posted about this issue I was having with a weird delay when trying to print and I thought I’d found a solution to it. But now I’ve discovered that the solution was responsible for new problems… particularly when trying to print large files (not large by numbers of pages, but by content - big scanned images or things like that), I’m suddenly getting error messages every time about timeouts.

I haven’t spent too much time trying to fix this issue, but switching the printer port back …

I’m really undecided about the Vista start menu… since I’ve started using Vista, I’ve had several different approaches for running applications:

1. Some applications run automatically when I log on to Windows
2. Some applications I run manually after most logins, like e.g. Outlook. I have icons for those in the Quick Launch toolbar.
3. I use SlickRun to run those applications I use most regularly, but which are not running all the time. The Quick Launch toolbar also has icons for some other …

I’ve been having a weird problem with printing on my Xerox Phaser 8550 from Vista. One of those issues that have been around forever, but I never found time to look into. The problem was that after a print job had been spooled, it sat in the print queue for something over a minute before being sent to the printer. At least it was my impression that this was the case, although of course it’s kind of hard to see what’s really going on once the job is in the queue.

I searched around for a while t …

Here’s something I could use some help with… I haven’t spent a lot of time looking into things, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy solution.

The problem is about switching keyboard layouts in Windows Vista (older versions of Windows weren’t significantly different, AFAIK, but that’s what I’m using). Now I hear a lot of people go “hehe, he’s not aware of all the nifty shortcuts you can configure to switch layouts”… no, I am aware of them, but they don’t do what I want.

What I want is rea …

I stumbled upon some ideas yesterday to optimize Vista performance — with a focus of running it on UMPCs. Reading through this thread here, I got the impression that my laptop could very well benefit from the same approach, seeing as the performance of hard drives in laptops is not sensational, if perhaps a little better than in UMPCs.

Anyway, I applied the changes to switch off SuperFetch and to change the DisablePagingExecutive setting (whatever exactly that does), and the result is gre …

I’m posting this mainly to remind myself how I did it, when the time comes to do it again. I added some detailed instructions (like where to cd to and so on) in case somebody else is interested in these instructions. So let’s see:

• I downloaded AUCTeX 11.84 from http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html
• I also downloaded and installed MSYS, but in the end I didn’t use it because my existing cygwin environment did the job nicely
• I already had EmacsW32 (version _GNU Emacs …

I was just going to look something up in the help file for Putty, and this window popped up:

So, it’s happened — Windows Vista can’t read Windows help files by default. Wow. This page here explains Microsoft’s reasoning, basically that ”… the Windows Help program has not had a major update for many releases and no longer meets Microsoft standards.”

I should think that with Microsoft’s resources at my disposal, it shouldn’t be much of a problem to cr …