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Few people know out-of-the-box Windows doesn’t allow you to create files whose full name is longer than 260 characters. So, you can’t create C:123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2023/08/13/windows-254-character-path-limit/

Cortana has some great functionality crippled by an obsolete, out-of-date set of concerns generated, perhaps, by Windows 8. Cortana wouldn’t be terribly out of place in 2010, but today? A few ...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/ghost-of-clippy-past/

Some time ago, I wrote about my transition from Android to Windows Phone. I don’t regret having gotten a Windows 7 Phone, but I do resent having one. Allow me to explain… Windows 7 Phone’s ...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/windows-phone-conclusion/

Ever tried to migrate your Putty settings from one system to another? It turns out it’s a one-liner. At the Start > Run or “Search Programs and Files” input box, simply paste: regedit.exe /...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/transferring-putty-settings/

In the fight to battle malware and piracy, we – the end users – get overlooked. This is most notable in the way that Windows apps are become so horrendously spread out. C:Program Data, C:User...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/one-folder-apps-a-win-for-windows/

Just got done adding a Login Queue system to the auth host (I have to add it to Playgate too, but it’s the weekend and it’s late and I’m gonna do that later). The nice thing about working o...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/login-queues/

Sunday evening, my motherboard died. I didn’t mind quite so much, the mobo/ram/cpu combo had been a thorn in my side since I built this system. So if I was going to buy parts, I was going to bu...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/urgle/

More experimentation with Managed C++ I mean C++/CLI and running in to an old friend: The Windows Firewall. My code wants to access the Internet, and Windows – properly – wants the user to a...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/im-going-to-access-the-web-now/

Would love to see Vista/W7 do this: Not going to be for everyone, but if you have lots of “activity” windows – Visual Studio doing a long compile, email, instant messengers, command prompts...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/in-place-preview/

Thanks for the votes :) I’ve just burned an Ubuntu 8.10 DVD. I’ve got NeoSmart’s EasyBCD installed, I’m going to try installing Ubuntu and seeing if it gives me the option of installing o...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/giving-ubuntu-a-whorl/

Following my mention of ‘autoruns’ while revealing (to no-one) that Adobe is evil, I thought I should follow up with an ironic little tip of the hat to, who else, but Microsoft :) Microsoft�...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/microsoft-tip-of-the-hat/

After my box got infected last weekend, I’ve been dropping into Vista here and there. Nothing has really changed, but somehow it’s not quite annoying me as much, and I don’t get the urge to...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/vista-sp1/

A couple of nights ago, (or as it last night, such a long week) I found myself with the mouse hovering over “Buy Now” for a customized 24in iMac for home… $2,500. After a long hard think, I...

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/a-mac-trend/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7435278.stm And after that, we can all go touchscreen crazy… http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/28/1527213&from=rss  

https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/xp-until-2010-woot/