Tag Annoyances

MS to force us to view ads whether we want to or not??

ZDnet blogger Russell Shaw certainly has found a scary patent filed by Microsoft. “Enforcing rendering advertisements and other predetermined media content in connection with playback of downloaded selected media content. Playback of selected media content is made conditional on acquisition…

Updating Acer Ferrari x64 Ultimate with new BIOS

Acer refuses to provide a 64 bit winphlash. I finally figured out a quick and easy solution (not wanting to buy a USB floppy). Acer adamantly refuses to acknowledge that 64 bit users want to update their BIOS. And the…

Hey, Acer CEO – YOU are Part of the Vista Problem

Gianfranco Lanci, you’re an uninformed CEO if you don’t know that the disappointment is in YOUR company’s lack of driver support, unintelligible support and download site. How can you state: “While the industry had waited for years for Vista, the…

Death Penalty for Spammers

Sometimes I think that a death penalty for spammers would be too lenient. Robert Alan Soloway crying poverty and using a public defender until slapped down. And driving his Mercedes convertible to court. This guy should be deported. To another…

Nero 7, Vista, and where did the thumbnails go – registry fix

Bad bad nero. Changes the registry from these defaults. So save this as a reg file or carefully edit the registry (need admin rights): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DVR-MS]@=””“PerceivedType”=”video”“MP2.Last”=”Custom” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DVR-MS\OpenWithProgIds]“WMP.DVR-MSFile”=hex(0): [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DVR-MS\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DVR-MS\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]@=”{9DBD2C50-62AD-11D0-B806-00C04FD706EC}” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DVR-MS\ShellEx\{e357fccd-a995-4576-b01f-234630154e96}]@=”{9DBD2C50-62AD-11D0-B806-00C04FD706EC}” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv]“PerceivedType”=”video” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.wmv\shellex\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]@=”{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WMVFile]@=”Windows Media Audio/Video…