A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And a web browser lacking basic web compliance by any other name would also smell.
With it’s release of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has once again heralded it’s intentions to make the Internet less than it could be. Not much has changed yet, despite Bill Gates’ departure.
I know it’s snarky and not constructive to say. But how long is Microsoft going to drag it’s feet on standards compliance for the web? IE8 is the first browser to be – by Microsoft’s estimation, at least – fully CSS2 compliant. That’s a nearly ten [...]
Even though Windows is designed around the idea that anything you would wish to change about the Registry should be available in GUI form, this is not always not the case. There are a number of performance tweaks to be found within the Registry for which there are no controls within the Operating System, and it is these performance tweaks that this post is dedicated. Once again, this is by no means a complete list, but rather a guide to some pretty-darned good ones.
A word for the uninitiated: if you’ve never played around with the Registry, this is [...]
Quite some time ago, on another board I was working, a friend of mine laid out a pretty long list of Windows XP tweaks for performance. I loved them (in fact, I have used them every single time I’ve reloaded my OS) and now that I’ve moved on from that board I do not want to lose them. So, as my first real contribution to the blogosphere on this new blog of mine, I present a list of Windows Services that can potentially be disabled from running:
Alerter
Clipbook
Computer Browser
Fast User Switching
Human Interface Access Devices
Indexing Service (Slows the [...]
