Tag: Windows XP

  • Better MIDI sound, part III – SoundFonts in Windows with BASSMIDI

    Better MIDI sound, part III – SoundFonts in Windows with BASSMIDI

    Still many readers are coming here because of my posts about MIDI. Most visitors are especially interested in improving their MIDI sound windows-wide, so it won’t sound like a cheap Chinese toy anymore. ;) I described one way to achieve this goal in a previous post. However, this information is more than two years old…

  • Windows XP filesharing again …

    Sometimes Windows can really drive you crazy … It hadn’t been too long since I had managed to make my shared files accessible to everyone on the network without entering a password, but now it was again broken, although I hadn’t changed any settings since then. Again, I was prompted for username and password when…

  • Dual-Monitor-Probleme mit älteren NVIDIA-Karten

    Whenever NVIDIA releases a new ForceWare, I’m foolish enough to install it and hope that the bugs, that cause me to make driver rollbacks again and again, might eventually have been fixed. But instead, it seems to get worse and worse with every version …

  • Windows XP: Filesharing without password

    Each time I reinstall Windows (which thanks to good care only happens every few years in my case), I have to struggle with setting up the stupid Windows file sharing afterwards. The problem is that Windows will allow only logged-in users to access shared files. So when anyone tries to access them, he will always…

  • Extremely choppy playback in Flash player

    It is truly amazing how a computer can still surprize you and make you shake your head in wonderment, even after twenty years of computer experience. Since weeks I’ve had the problem that Flash movies were stuttering on my computer so much that I couldn’t even watch ordinary YouTube videos anymore. And I don’t mean…

  • Anti-aliasing in Firefox

    Attention! This post is rather old. If you’re looking for information on the current Firefox 4 font smoothing problem, you should rather look here: Font smoothing in Firefox 4. Since version 7, I believe, the Internet Explorer has had this great font anti-aliasing feature. That is the fonts simply look prettier, smoother and less pixely there. I’ve…