For Windows XP users, a big concern of upgrading to Windows 7 is “Will my Windows XP applications still work in Windows 7”. Remember the nightmare that after upgrading to Windows Vista, many XP users found that their XP applications stopped working and had to roll back to XP? But fear no more, the incoming Windows 7 has a built-in virtualization feature that will enable XP applications to run in Windows 7 and it is […]
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In Windows XP, if IIS was installed after Visual Studio was installed, then you would have to run command aspnet_regiis –i in order to make Visual Studio work with IIS. You can do so by clicking Start =>All Programs =>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 =>Visual Studio Tools =>Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt to open a command prompt, then type in aspnet_regiis –i. Now the question is “can you do the same thing in Windows 7”? The […]
While Microsoft Internet Explorer still has the biggest market share among all major web browsers, the market share of Mozilla FireFox has increased almost 3.5%, but the market share of Internet Explorer has dropped about 6.5% in the past 11 months, according to the recent report by Net Application: For detailed information of the report, click here.
Finally I decided to upgrade to IE 8, and unfortunately my nightmare started soon after the upgrade. Unpredictably, I get an iexplore.exe application error: The instruction at “0x1001677e” reference memory at “0x043a8f64”. The memory could not be “read”. Click OK to terminate the program. It happens sometimes when I am browsing a page, or when I open a new page, or when I close a page, and the memory address is different each time. After […]
Windows 7 RC is available for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers today, according to this post on Windows 7 Team Blog. And then on May 5th, Windows 7 RC will be released for download by the general public. I am patiently (no choice, I guess) waiting on the public availability of Windows 7 RC…
When I tried to run a project today and got an “Unable to start debugging on the web server” error: According to the suggestion in the error message, I ran the project without debugging, and it did provide more information about the error: Parser Error Message: An XML comment cannot contain ‘–‘, and ‘-‘ cannot be the last character. Line 27, position 105. Source File: ******\web.config Line: 27 In my web.config file, I commented out […]
Today, Google proudly released a new feature for GMail: Autopilot. This new feature will make your email communication super easy. It scans your email messages to build up a knowledge base and then generates auto reply email based on the content of the email message. During the learning period, it may not be very accurate, but the more you use it, the more accurate the auto email is. Here are some screen shots of Autopilot […]
Windows Vista has been out for a while, but I never got a chance to use it much. The main reason is that I don’t have a test machine to run Vista and I don’t have budget to upgrade my current machine either. Finally, I found a computer in my office that has not been used by any other people, so I grabbed it as my test machine. Also Windows 7 Beta is out, so […]
The Problem Steps Recorder is a new feature introduced in Windows 7. It enables the end users to record problem they have with an application and provides a detailed screen-by-screen view with helpful information. By using this tool, end users can easily report the problem they have and help reduce time spent with the help desk. It also help the staff at the help desk to easily reproduce the problem and quickly understand the problem. […]