I've had a lot of people say that the Service Loader I created is great, but that they would like the ability to run the service without a debugger attached, like from the command line or similar method, but still not require the service be installed as a Windows Service. I created a new application as an enhancement to the original Service Loader called the Service Runner. What is beautiful about...

Read More... 8 Comment(s) 03:48 - Aug 22, 2007

There are a few programs that require Encrypting File System (EFS) to be turned on in Windows Vista. Among them: Various Hotfixes Windows Powershell .NET Framework 3.5 (and subsequently Visual Studio 2008) This occurs because there is a group policy set on your domain that prevents this from being enabled. It causes several variations of the following error message: Installer encountered an error:...

Read More... No Comments 14:36 - Aug 08, 2007

I've been using Vista for a while now, both at work and at home. Up until now, I've mostly felt that it's just a slight upgrade from Windows XP. I understand all of the work that went into the underpinnings and such and from a developer perspective I can certainly appreciate these. From a regular user's perspective, I'm concerned with features and of the features that I've used, the system-wide search...

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