Tag: windows
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The shrinking road to cross platform computing
They say that once you start using a Mac, you will never go back to Windows again. And I was a big enough of an idiot to believe it. So I prepared myself in the eventuality that I would become a fan boy, and converted all my data to work seamlessly with Apple’s OS X.…
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Disabling error reporting in Windows XP
Everything seems to be going well. You have a couple of programs open, and happily going thru your normal computing tasks. After a few minutes, you sit back, aghast — a window suddenly appeared, screaming: “Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please tell Microsoft about this…
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There are no words – Working around Windows XP’s file search
Searching for files in Microsoft Windows XP is a breeze if you’re merely searching by file name. However, if you are using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion, the default setting does not work as it did in Microsoft Windows 2000. The Problem When you use Windows XP’s search "A word…