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There are a few small bugs in Windows 10 that, despite being small bugs, manage to irritate the hell out of me. 1. Desktop icon positions...

I came across an interesting problem recently. I was editing some environment variables on a Windows 10 PC, using some third-party software...

I bought a Canon PIXMA MX895 all-in-one printer in May 2012. In fact, I was one of the first owners of the printer in the UK, having pre-or...

I recently updated to Windows 10 on a Z170-based motherboard, but my Windows installation was an MBR-based one rather than a modern UEFI on...

...in the properties for devices in the Sound control panel applet, you can right-click on the volume bars and change the units to decibels...

I shifted yuo.be to Amazon Web Services. Here's a recent screenshot of the 'Time spent downloading a page' graph from the Googl...

In the Windows Vista-era, I wrote a DVB-T program. Apart from letting you view TV, it read and parsed DVB-SI. With the removal of Media Ce...

It certainly feels like all the feedback I enter into the Windows Feedback app on Windows 10 ends up in free fall towards the floor of a bo...

It looks like iTunes can join the mega-GDI-resource-leak club: Congratulations (?)

Lenovo finally posted an updated driver - version 267.21 - for the Nvidia NVS 3100M chipset in my ThinkPad T510. Unfortunately after install...

Hi Adobe, You might want to do a better job testing your software before releasing it. I was happily reading a PDF document when I wondered ...

I downloaded the Dragon Age II PC demo, to find that mouse wheel support is broken - a familiar tale . (Specifically, support for freely ro...

If you call it with a NULL HWND, it will return E_INVALIDARG but leak six GDI handles (seen under Windows 7 SP1). Yes, you can blame the cal...

1. Surely a (laptop) recovery DVD that depends on the original storage drive partition layout to be (loosely) intact is a complete fail? I...

It seems to fail at resampling. I tested on Windows 7 with the stock Microsoft Anna voice; you probably won't notice unless you use an a...

Dear Broadcom WIDCOMM Bluetooth Software 6.2.1.2100 installer, Thank you for deleting every file you had access to on my system volume. Ther...

So my web host blocked my IP address from the server my web site is hosted on... and are denying it/are uninterested in doing anything about...

As I know the nice person(s) at UPEK like to take notice of things posted here, I thought I'd write about a couple of new problems I had...

Last time we just touched on a small issue, as a precursor to the important one. Consider an application that populates an STGMEDIUM structu...

I recently decided to switch my SATA controller into AHCI mode. With this information that was easy enough. What followed though were ...

Out of the blue, my Windows 7 install decided to run chkdsk on my system drive on startup (once). It didn't find any problems. A little ...

What does MSDN say about the ppvObject parameter in IUnknown::QueryInterface? ppvObject [out] The address of a pointer variable that rec...

As does Mr Screen Shot... (If you're wondering, the problem was just that I had the destination file open in a certain application..)

I thought (or perhaps naively hoped) UPEK had fixed all their issues. Alas, I was to be disappointed on a large scale as you can see below. ...

I'm going to complain about it again ( first time ). I recently saw a crash log where the user had right-clicked on our application'...

I decided to go ahead and buy a TechNet subscription so I could "evaluate" Windows 7, and am now running Windows 7 RTM on both of ...

This issue just cropped up: -We are in function A (a callback function) -We call ITaskbarList3::ThumbBarUpdateButtons -It calls SendMessageT...

A little while ago I wrote about how the Windows 7 RC jump lists are affected by such a problem. I decided to install Visual Studio 2010 Bet...

Just wtf is this about. I'm referring to this , or this , or this , or this ... It's horrible, and loud. Seemingly known as 'coi...