So yesterday I reinstalled my laptop because some beta driver was acting up, no big deal. I had both of my partitions secured with Bitlocker (and a BIOS password set up) so that my laptop is secure.

After formatting I noticed that my C drive wasn’t encrypted anymore (which is obvious, it was formatted).

But my D drive looked like this:

It was locked. Fortunately I printed my recovery key so I was able to unlock the drive.

Please print the keys, and keep them safe!

Well not really my computer, but my girlfriend’s. It needed some updating (you know how people are, not updating & stuff).

Adobe Reader already sets 2 programs in startup. A speed launcher and another one which I am too lazy to identify. If your application is too slow then optimize it, don’t treat the symptoms.

Then our good slow friend Java. Always had their speed launcher (symptom treatment!!) in startup, but guess what also added a service.

What the f*ck? I’m moving closer and closer to not install Java on new pcs, since it’s a burdon to manage and keep up to date!

When you right click a music folder in Windows Explorer you get this:

To remove the Shop for music online link put this into a registry file and execute it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\Directory.Audio\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\WMPShopMusic]

For those who like to live on the edge:

Vista SP2 x64 Beta

Vista SP2 x86 Beta

Remember that there is a change when you install this on your workstation you might need to reinstall Vista if problems occurs, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE for this.

Let’s say you are one of the gifted persons to have MSDN access.

Let’s say you use Vista 64-bit (I don’t know if the problem occurs on 32-bit).

Let’s say you want to download something from MSDN with Microsoft File Transfer Manager.

And it does not work.

Well use this workaround:

First: download the File Transfer Manager from here.

Download and install the MSI. The default path is c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft File Transfer Manager”. Remember this.

Then use Firefox to go to the MSDN website, start a download, and it will prompt you to do something with the default.aspx. Well open that file with the File Transfer Manager. And it works!

Woei!

DO NOT REMOVE user32.dll, even though AVG 8 states that there is a virus in the file.

Doing so will remove the file, and cause a BSOD, and makes your system unable to boot.

It marks the file as infected with Trojan Horse PSW.BANKER4.APSA.

Possibilities are to wait for an update from AVG, or (preferably) upgrade to XP SP3!

Today an update for Live Mesh was released.

As stated in the title: there is no need to set your country for your .NET passport and computer to the US, which means my ‘tutorial’ is obsolete now.

Try it out, have fun

We kennen allemaal Live Mesh.

Nu is er een tegenhanger: DropBox . Kijk naar het filmpje.

Lieve usertjes kunnen hier beneden een request voor een invite doen, ik heb er nog 10 7

_EN_ ik moet natuurlijk Ted bedanken, (z’n blog ligt eruit, dus ik kan er niet naar linken!) voor mijn initiele invite, waardoor ik jullie allemaal blij kan maken

Ik had een tijdje geleden devolgende post gemaakt: AVG update: linkscanner disablen.

Dit is nu niet meer nodig, aangezien die functie geintegreerd is in de installer .

Overigens gebruik ik AVG niet meer, maar AVAST, want AVG gaf teveel false positives op keygens :+

Ik heb net gemerkt dat als men Visual Studio 2008 opent als Administrator (voor het aanmaken van de website bij IIS) de scrolling functie van mijn Synaptics touchpad niet werkt. Hij heeft er dus geen toegang tot.

Synaptics Touchad enhancer openen als Administrator helpt, maar daar moet je dan een geplande taak van maken, anders doet UAC iedere keer moeilijk.

-Kristof out