Archive for October, 2006
The Background on Backgrounds
This is a super
cool post on what it’s like developing software at Microsoft in the drive to RTM. My
heart started pounding towards the end 
(just kidding). I’ve always wondered
why my desktop background on XP is a 20 MB BMP file in the windows directory… and
I didn’t know that Vista will auto crop/scale images to fit your desktop.
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Loading ...Flickering and Dimming in Vista
Installed Vista a few weeks ago and I really like it. I hope to write a series of
posts over the next few months going through some of the feature I like the most.
However, one feature I like the least is the flickering and dimming that occurs when
the “elevation
prompt” appears. This is a little dialog box that asks for your permission before
some admin task is allowed to go through. I personally know what I am doing on my
computer and don’t care much for it but I also don’t mind it that much… However,
I really don’t care for the side effects of this feature in RC1.
The good news is that there is at least 4
ways of disabling it. Tim Sneath discusses how the best way to disable the dialogs
is literally to just
disable those dialogs, but not the UAC
feature.
I originally used the Group Policy Settings to make the change, but I think the msconfig
option is probably the easiest.
I’ll turn it back on on the RTM build and see if things improved. But for now it’s
off.
tags: Vista
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