Since your Media Center is set up to be an appliance, there’s no need to login every time it boots. Although it will automatically login if you leave your password blank, the default network policy will not map network drives with blank passwords. With Windows XP I used TweakUI to automatically login, but now Vista [...]
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Auto-login in Vista
Since your Media Center is set up to be an appliance, there’s no need to login every time it boots. Although it will automatically login if you leave your password blank, the default network policy will not map network drives with blank passwords. With Windows XP I used TweakUI to automatically login, but now Vista [...]
Screensaver doesn't come on in Vista
I had an issue on two of my computers where the screen saver would never start. I could preview the screen saver, but no matter how long I waited it would never come on. I tried a number of things, changing various settings, but nothing seemed to work. Last night I did another search on [...]
Enabling additional transition effects in Vista
The transitions in Windows Vista are neat, but there’s only one of them. Everyone keeps talking about how Vista is so much like Mac OS X, but OS X has a bunch of really neat hardware-accelerated window transitions, like flip, twist, fall down, etc. Here’s how you can get more transitions out of Windows Vista: [...]
COM Surrogate has stopped working error
I’ve been having problems whenever I browse to a folder containing video files. The thumbnails don’t generate and I was getting an error message “DLLHost has stopped working” or something like that. I upgraded to the Divx 6.5 codec and still got an error “COM Surrogate has stopped working”. I finally found a fix. It [...]
What is Vista? (part 2)
Some notable Windows XP features and components have been replaced or removed in Windows Vista. Perhaps the most significant of these is the removal of Windows Messenger, the network Messenger Service, HyperTerminal, MSN Explorer, and the replacement of NetMeeting with Windows Meeting Space. Windows Vista also does not include the Windows XP “Luna” visual theme, [...]
What is Windows Vista? (part 1)
Windows Vista is the the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Vista was known by its codename Longhorn. On November 8, 2006, Windows Vista development was completed and [...]
Windows XP detects only half my RAM
Question from Blue13X “Hey guys. I have a P4 system with RDRAM. I had 4 banks with each 64mb, totaling 256. So I took out 2×64 and in place put in each bank 512. so now I have: bank 1: 512mb bank2: 512mb bank 3: 64mb bank 4: 64 But instead of 1152mb it shows [...]
How to get Watched Folders working on 2 MCE PCs
Have both machines on the same network. If the machines can’t ping each other by name, this will not work. Share your recorded TV folder on each machine. Give “Everyone” full control on the share and on the folder itself. You can name the share the default, “Recorded TV” if you want, that’s what I [...]
WTF is NTFS?
NTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants: Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Windows versions 95, 98, 98SE and ME cannot natively read NTFS filesystems, although third-party utilities (commercial, shareware & freeware) do exist for this purpose. NTFS is also usable on other [...]
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