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Notes (week 6) - New wind is blowing
February 8th, 2008It’s been an interesting week. On Tuesday I got a pleasant delivery in form of a new laptop. It’s an Acer Aspire 5520. This model has AMD TL-58 processor, 2GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive and Nvidia 8400G GPU. It was 699€ which might be a bit expensive because the store I had to use (due to payment issues) is not the cheapest one. Anyway, it seems decent machine for the money so who cares. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium which I decided to keep using, at least for now. I might switch to Linux later but that’s not any time soon.
The work computer is now completely dedicated for work, which is good for productivity. Another good thing for productivity is my new eyeglasses. These are my first glasses so there is quite a learning ahead to get used to them. When using computer, the poor sight was making my eyes tired fast, which was affecting my concentration. My loss of far sight is due to long hours in from of a monitor. So if you use computer a lot and have good vision, try to keep it that way. It’s a good practice to focus your eyes to some distant spot every 30-45 minutes.
Anyway, there was some good progress with CE this week. The settings engine and options dialog are both up and running. Next week I’ll start adding more settings into the options dialog. Also I’ll do some cleaning of the code as it’s quite a mess right now. Here’s a SVN snapshot of the current progress:
CubicExplorer 0.90.0.982 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (1.6MB)
Zip (1.5MB)
Tray tooltips show behind taskbar.
April 12th, 2007I had this very annoying problem in Windows XP (SP2). When I hovered mouse over a tray icon to show it’s tooltip, the tooltip was showing behind taskbar. I don’t know if there is an official fix to this issue but the following worked for me:
- Open regedit (Start–>Run–>regedit)
- Go to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation - Create (Right Click–>New–>String Value) or modify value:
SetWindowPos=HwndInsertAfter, Hwnd_Top - Create (Right Click–>New–>DWORD Value) or modify value:
SetForegroundWindow=1 - Restart Windows
Back in business!
March 27th, 2007So I had a Windows melt down yesterday. I powered up my work computer in the morning and Windows didn’t boot anymore. Instead, it showed this message:
