Windows 8.1 codename “blue”.
Month: June 2013
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Reset tiles in the “Start menu” screen on Windows 8
If you ever want to wipe the slate clean of tiles, so to speak, try this:
- Start key
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Gesture from right to activate the charms menu. For non-touch devices (PCs), do an Alt+C and click Settings:
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Tiles
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Under “Clear info from personal tiles” click the Clear button
Done!
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Network analysis feature in Process Monitor
Process Monitor from Windows Sysinternals, part of Microsoft’s Server and Tools division, combines the best of familiar but now extinct tools. By extinct I mean deprecated or no longer supported. The warranty* expired.
Windows 8 PC running Process Monitor
Events with a highlight filter applied
Time of Day and Process Name columns
Right-click menu
The context-sensitive [right-click] menu allows you to highlight a specific number of rows (events displayed horizontally) with only a particular column match highlighted. The example above is right-clicking on the Operation column of a particular row.
PID, Operation, and Result are columns in photo
But how Process Monitor combines all is just the start. They also allow you to filter. My favorite part of the toolbar in Process Monitor is the
All five turned on except “profiling”, the default settings
To filter out just the network traffic, click on each highlighted box to deselect except this highlighted icon in the photo below:
Show Network Activity icon
Then turn on the Autoscroll feature, off by default:
Autoscroll (Ctrl+A)
Allowing you to get a real-time,scrolling, network [event] trace like this:
Just remember to turn on the other three show buttons (file, registry, process). Don’t turn Profiling on, unless you want more data. Refer to the onboard [F1] Process Monitor help.
For more information on support lifecycle, and how to download Process Monitor, refer to the references section below:
References
URLs
*Microsoft Support lifecycle website
Windows Sysinternals
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The best slides from the closing arguments in the Apple ebooks case
Apple(s aapl) and the Justice Department made closing arguments in the ebook pricing case Thursday. Apple argued that a ruling against it would lead to a “chilling” effect on commerce and content markets in the U.S., while the DOJ said this is a straightforward antitrust suit and compared Apple and publishers to Saudi Arabian oil cartels.
While we wait for Judge Denise Cote’s verdict — which could take weeks or months — here’s a peek at some of the funniest and/or most interesting slides from the closing arguments.
Apple wins on graphics and iOS imagery
Apple made a calendar to show the dates and times of its calls with publishers. Apple argues that the breaks between the calls show that it wasn’t acting as a behind-the-scenes “ringmaster.”
Apple took apart some of the slides from the DOJ’s opening argument, in which the DOJ mentioned a “spiderweb” of calls between Apple…
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Cisco Catalyst 3500 series XL
My two Cisco Catalyst 3500 series XL switches. For testing purposes.
Product
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps637/index.html
Too bad it’s end of life. Thus, no longer supported.
IE crashing on site
Tried to hit this site just now:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/20/4304820/kansas-first-public-natural-gas.html
Internet Explorer crashed. That’s the technical explanation. But In laymen’s terms Internet Explorer hit a piece of code it didn’t like and threw an exception of some kind and Internet Explorer caught it and the Windows 8 error reporting or WER (Windows Error Reporting) took over and threw up the message:
Error message:
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer has stopped working.
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
Debug and Close program buttons appear at the bottom of the message box.
Thankfully when I clicked on Close program it refreshed the page and all is well.
Event Viewer
Checked the MMC snap-in Event Viewer that I’ve pinned to my taskbar.
Application Log
Windows Error Reporting information event ID 1001
The primary application, obviously is Internet Explorer. But I haven’t seen this nvwgf2um.dll file before.
Search
Searched on this file using Bing and found these:
Not much. So I searched my hard drive by opening Windows Explorer (File Explorer), selected the Local Disk (C) drive, and in the box on the upper right typed pasted nvwgf2um.dll
Windows Explorer
Waited about a minute… Had to expand the file path column:
Finally finished:
File description: NVIDIA D3D10 Driver, Version 311.50
