Recently a friend was complaining to me about the “screen flickering” that occurs whenever a User Account Control (UAC) prompt comes up in Vista and he wanted to know how to turn it off—not UAC, just the dimming and flickering effects. He said he already looked in the display settings and didn’t see anything there. Continue Reading »
I have always been annoyed with the huge number of files under the Windows directory, but I was very surprised when I looked at my Windows directory under Vista: 39,609 files and 7,411 folders! Continue Reading »
A couple years ago I thought a pond would be a nice addition to an empty space on the side of my old house. I didn’t know anything about constructing ponds at the time but I thought that actually doing it would be a good way to learn. After reading a few web articles on the subject I got out the shovel and started digging. The pond came together very quickly but it turned out I was kind of naive and bit too impatient in pond v1.0.
I was recently going through my windows lockdown procedure, cleaning up unnecessary files and noticed that every Windows 2003 Server I own has a wmpub directory in the root of my C drive. The only thing in the directory is an empty subdirectory named wmiislog.
Since I strongly believe that a clean system is conducive to security, and I especially hate clutter in my root dir, I tried deleting the folder, only to find that it was in use and could not be deleted. Annoyed with this empty directory I did some research to find out exactly what this was.
