Channel 9 - Discussions by geeky123 http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by geeky123 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions en Thu, 23 May 2013 23:18:44 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 23:18:44 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Weird Flip 3d behavior - bug or 'feature' Here is the image showing the flip3d bug with firefox.
Notice that the firefox window appears like a small tab instead of a full preview.
Also when you actually select it, it doesnt get mazimized.

http://i1.tinypic.com/2ppix6q.jpg

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CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

geeky123 wrote:
Btw, does anyone else also has this frequent crashing problems with word. I am pretty sure it has crashed on me on every third document i have tried to create.


No crashes here.  Do you have Office 2003 installed on the same machine?


Well i did upgrade from 2003 and i still have visio 2003 installed. also i am running it on xp, not vista. could that have any effect?

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However when i try to actually publish the post to my blogger blog, it gives me a msg saying 'the information sent, including your username and password might be visible to other users'.

Is there any way to tell word to use secure http to publish posts or are we stuck with the usual http?


Btw, does anyone else also has this frequent crashing problems with word. I am pretty sure it has crashed on me on every third document i have tried to create.

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Also, I dont know whether this too is happening with you or not, but with firefox 2.0 if i minize it and do flip 3d, half the time (not always, but half the time) I see that instead of the firefox window, just a little title bar with the maximize/minimze/buttons on it and no client area.
I dont know whether this is a firefox or flip3d bug or feature but this is happening.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252377-Weird-Flip-3d-behavior-bug-or-feature/3f70915d00f04aa290d29dec0059aa88#3f70915d00f04aa290d29dec0059aa88 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:27:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252377-Weird-Flip-3d-behavior-bug-or-feature/3f70915d00f04aa290d29dec0059aa88#3f70915d00f04aa290d29dec0059aa88 geeky123 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Weird Flip 3d behavior - bug or 'feature' Flip 3d seems to have this weird behavior, if you minize a window and then switch to it using flip3d, it stays minimized.

Now that is just crazy design. after all the whole point of using flip3d is to 'switch' to the window you select, if you have to 'unminimize' it by clicking on the taskbar then whats the point of it.

Yes, i know this is not a bug, this is a feature but someone care to explain me why?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252377-Weird-Flip-3d-behavior-bug-or-feature/252377#252377 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:48:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252377-Weird-Flip-3d-behavior-bug-or-feature/252377#252377 geeky123 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Weird problem with external monitor Thanks for the detailed explanation Smiley

I have been thinking of least expensive possible ways to solve this.

How about connecting my laptop to a docking station and then connecting the vga output to the docking station. Can it possibly have any effect?


Having said that, the power brick is not the only part of this setup that uses switch-mode power supplies. Inside your laptop, there will be separate ones for each of the 12, 5 and 3.3 Volt rails, and one for the CPU core voltage. In addition to these, there will be one or more directly related to the charging of the Batteries, which might be the source of your problem, too. Then there's the switch-mode power supplies within the Monitor, etc.



Hmmm... but if it was any of the other components inside the laptop, then disconnecting the power brick should not have had any effect on the display, while currently as i have previously said, disconnecting the laptop from the power supply makes the display run fine.

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I dont the problem could be in the monitor since when i run the monitor by itself, ie with my laptop on batteries, it runs fine.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252202-Weird-problem-with-external-monitor/0c44ab706fe241fc9e179dec00573ce1#0c44ab706fe241fc9e179dec00573ce1 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:05:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252202-Weird-problem-with-external-monitor/0c44ab706fe241fc9e179dec00573ce1#0c44ab706fe241fc9e179dec00573ce1 geeky123 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Weird problem with external monitor so doesnt anyone have any solutions or workarounds for my problem Sad

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RichardRudek wrote:
Your probably getting a "beat signal" due to an interaction between the Power Brick's operating Frequency the Display's horizontal rate.

So if your monitor supports it, try changing the vertical refresh rate, which in turn changes all of the other related timings, including the horizontal. ie For Win XP, 2K or 2K3, right-click Desktop, Properties, Settings tab, Advanced button, Monitor tab, Vertical Refresh.

The problem should go away using DVI as it's a digital output, but you never know.


It doesnt support changing refresh rates. Anything above 60hz starts distorting the image.

Thing is my laptop doesnt have a DVI output Sad

Also I notice that the wavy lines appear only on certain colors like dark gray/blue.
They dont seem to be there when seeing a bright color like White.

Edit: It turns out my monitor only has support for DVI-D so any of the vga to dvi adapters wont work either Sad

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How can i possibly rearrange them when the connectors on the laptop are side by side Sad

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252202-Weird-problem-with-external-monitor/d11e8d216d01412f88b39dec00573bc0#d11e8d216d01412f88b39dec00573bc0 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:36:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/252202-Weird-problem-with-external-monitor/d11e8d216d01412f88b39dec00573bc0#d11e8d216d01412f88b39dec00573bc0 geeky123 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Weird problem with external monitor Yup it does run adjacent to the vga cable. Almost stuck to it.

Alas it seems the interference is internal since no amount putting stuff in between the cables or adjusting them seems to make any difference.

Just a wild shot but will getting one of those little vga-dvi adapters help my situation in any way, since my monitor also supports dvi?

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I just bought and connected a 22" monitor to my sony vaio laptop.

Now although it works fine, I notice that when i connect the power cord to the laptop, the monitor starts getting these very faint wavy lines. Sort of like water. They are more prominent against a dark background.

However as soon as i disconnect the power cord from the laptop, the monitor becomes fine again.

The vga cable and power cord are right next to each other.

Why do you think this problem is being caused? Is there any way to correct this?

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 Just to let everyone know I did go ahead with the install and all my files are still intact Smiley

Thanks everyone.

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is there any page that verifies this info.
Sorry but i am a little scared. The very thought of losing all data is pretty scary plus it just says everywhere to create a new partition from the free space or else the partition will be wiped clean.

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918884#

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This is what i did -
  1. Clicked on 'Clean Install'
  2. Selected the partition
  3. Clicked on 'Next' since no other option
  4. It started copying the files!
Thankfully I could still cancel the installation.

But where should i tell it not to format the partition.

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However the drive i plan to install to (D: )  already has quite a few files on it. Is it possible to install vista on that drive without formatting it so that I dont lose all the files on that drive?

I read somewhere that this is indeed possible in Vista if your partiton is already NTFS formatted. Is this true?

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I am just curious as to when can we expect the final release of Orcas. I know no dates are final yet, but even a highly rough estimate would do.

For eg - Is it before/after june or around march only?

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daytrip00 wrote:


Windows Desktop Search 3.0... Oh how slow and bloated are thee! 


Try Copernic Desktop Search. I fnd it to be the best out there. Its also super fast.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/6e68ff8020fa42518a869dec0041e67b#6e68ff8020fa42518a869dec0041e67b Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:26:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/6e68ff8020fa42518a869dec0041e67b#6e68ff8020fa42518a869dec0041e67b geeky123 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007 I was pretty excited to install Office 2007 myself.
But the first time I created a document with it, it crashed.

Now I know there is crash recovery stuff built in, but guess what each time i recovered and tried to save my document, it would crash again.

So i tried to create a new document and paste all the text from the previous document into it to save it, but guess what that would crash it too. It seemed to have a certain disliking maybe for what was written in the document Wink

Eventually I had to retype the whole thing again just so that i could save it Sad

I even tried using the new blog posting feature in word, and somehowit doesnt seem to work with the latest blogger beta.

And the speed, dont ask me about it....

If this continues i will have to switch back to office 2003 Sad

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I want to know from people who have used windows vista whether this really does give noticable performance boost at all or the gain in nano seconds only.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250501-Does-ReadyBoost-really-boost-performance/250501#250501 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:47:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250501-Does-ReadyBoost-really-boost-performance/250501#250501 geeky123 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Should I install Windows Vista?
Jack Poison wrote:

geeky123 wrote:Although I have a copy of Windows Vista through my Msdn subscription and am dying to install it, I hear some pretty negative reviews on the web.

Firstly, almost everyone says that upgrading from  xp is a bad idea and i should do a clean install.  This is not an option in my case since i have a lot of programs installed and i dont want to spend an entire week backing up and reinstalling them again.

My laptops config is -
Core Duo 2 ghz
1 gb ram
ge force go 7600 (128 vram)
5400 rom sata hd

The vista upgrade advisor says it will have problems with my sound card and bluetooth.

Will this setup give a reasonable performance with Windows Vista?

I have heard from a lot of people that Vista is super slow and that the nvidia drivers are way too buggy right now.


So with all these comments I am a little afraid to go ahead with the upgrade.

What is your opinion?


Out of curiousity, where are the "negative reviews" from?


Here are a couple of them -


This one in channel 9 itself -
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=258159

This one doesnt look too good either -
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/vintagevista.ars

On the other hand, I would love to see some positive reviews of Windows Vista Wink

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250412-Vistas-installer-is-quick/2a4cb66fc4f84c17a00d9dec003ce855#2a4cb66fc4f84c17a00d9dec003ce855 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:33:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250412-Vistas-installer-is-quick/2a4cb66fc4f84c17a00d9dec003ce855#2a4cb66fc4f84c17a00d9dec003ce855 geeky123 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/geeky123/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Should I install Windows Vista? Although I have a copy of Windows Vista through my Msdn subscription and am dying to install it, I hear some pretty negative reviews on the web.

Firstly, almost everyone says that upgrading from  xp is a bad idea and i should do a clean install.  This is not an option in my case since i have a lot of programs installed and i dont want to spend an entire week backing up and reinstalling them again.

My laptops config is -
Core Duo 2 ghz
1 gb ram
ge force go 7600 (128 vram)
5400 rom sata hd

The vista upgrade advisor says it will have problems with my sound card and bluetooth.

Will this setup give a reasonable performance with Windows Vista?

I have heard from a lot of people that Vista is super slow and that the nvidia drivers are way too buggy right now.


So with all these comments I am a little afraid to go ahead with the upgrade.

What is your opinion?

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