Sometimes it can really drive you crazy, this Windows … 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 [...]

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 …

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 be [...]

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 the [...]

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 always liked that; in fact, I was amazed, for it was the first time that the Internet Explorer seemed to have something over my Firefox. But I thought: “Well, in [...]

After a comment on my debut post “Better Midi sound”, I decided to have a look at Timidity for Windows again. Back then, I simply hadn’t understood the program. But through continuous occupation with the subject matter during the last year, I have obviously developed a better understanding for it. At least this time [...]

Who doesn’t know the annoying problem with special characters being displayed wrongly (or not at all) on websites… In my case today, it was a Windows computer that wouldn’t display some special characters on various sites, although it worked on other computers with identical browsers. As often before, the solution seems so simple to me – [...]

I just wanted to use the Windows search function in order to find “a word or phrase in the file”. No chance! It has now happened to me several times that no files were listed at all, although I knew that my search expression was inside one of the files. Today I finally started searching [...]