I bought an extra 500GB SATA HD yesterday and a SATA DVD drive.

My MB is an Abit AN8 32X.

I plugged in the new HD and replaced my old IDE DVD driver with the new SATA DVD drive.

Everything went fine the first boot.
DVD drive worked fine.
I used Windows' Disk Management to Initialize and format the HD. (Ichoose GPT instead if MBR when I was asked to initialize the disk)

When I was done I shut down the computer and went to bed.

Today, when I booted up the computer, it stopped with...

I believe it was said to be released an update at the end of last summer. Any news of this?


Also, I know DX3.5 encountered some difficult issues requiring quite a bit of recoding, but is there some indication to when we can expect DX?

My screensaver Running Matrix WWW Link has an issue under Vista where the settings set in Control Panel isn't applied to the screensaver when it's running.

I used .NET's Properties.Settings to store the settings, but for some reason it didn't work well on Vista. I tried MSDN to find out what it could be, but with no luck.

So I ended up having to reinvent the wheel and write custom code to store the settings on Vista systems.

The beta is here: WWW Link

However, when I tried it on my m...

I assume quite a few of you have heard of Xion by now. The skinnable mediaplayer that let you create skins by just using Photoshop.

I just came across an application that let you make interactive GUI's with Photoshop. You set up all the elements as various groups and layers in Photoshop which then gets compiled into a interactive screen.

The product page got a movieclip that gives a brief preview of how it's done.

I came across this neat Virtual Desktop Manager for Vista today.Got a really simple interface with some nice subtle effects powered by the DWM.Also, the sourcecodes are available if you are interested.I'm currently running WindowBlinds and ObjectDock and none of them seem to conflict with the manager like some managers do.Check it out!

Came across hits nice little collection of Q&A's about basic scripting on the MSDN site. Have a look. There is quite a few nice little snippets.

Came gross this little app that let you take screenshot of windows and include the shadow around them on Vista systems.
It got a couple of other interesting features as well.

I had a look at some of the Sidebar gadgets and noticed there was a few that displayed the MSN messenger contacts.

Looking at the source I found that they all created an OBJECT element with classid clsid:B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28

something like:

Now, this got me thinking. Can this be referenced in a DesktopX object? Went though the list of ActiveX controls, but couldn't find anything.

Anyone else got an idea of how we can reference the same object in DesktopX? The object ...

I thinking of maybe try to update my Matrix screensaver. Seeing that it requires allot of text rendering which becomes really heavy on large monitors or multiple monitors. I was wondering if I can get it to speed up by using DirectX to render the text.

I've been looking for simple examples on the net, but I only seem to come across game examples which include allot extra.

Can anyone provide an example, or link to one, on how to render text in C# with DirectX.
I've never done any DirectX s...

I got a new computer recently. Got everything plugged in and set up. .. Nearly everything. I can't for the love of sanity work out how to connect the front panel audio port of the case to the motherboard.

This is the case connectors:


This is the motherboard connectors:


So my question is: how on earth do you connect these freaking cables? This has been driving me crazy for a while now.

Came across this page with a few interesting UI design elements. I particulary liked the fisheye menu.
Not sure how "innovative" the drag and drop is though. It's been around for a long time.

Does people have link other similar things?

Just noticed an user comment on slashdot about computer AI: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=228857&cid=18557545


Well, one of the greatest experiences (And still is), AI wise, is Stardocks XXXX-type space strategy game, Galactic Civilizations 2 [galciv2.com]. I especially like, when on easier levels, you do something, and the AI race sends a message "It seems that you are making a massive buildup for war. However, with this difficulty level, I pretend not no notice it until you actua...

For those of you who tried to download my DX Script Manual earlier and got an Access Denied message, the widget is now re-uploaded. I checked that the download works now.

I'm planning to add categories for the next release and include links to external tutorials as well. Let me know if you know of any good ones besides those on WC.

Whenever a legacy app needs to disable the Aero feature in Vista my screen become very slow. I can actually see things being rendered. I can only compare it to when I had XP and default graphics drivers where installed.

Is anyone else experiencing that? I don't experience that on my old computer which got an ATI card installed.

Got Forceware 100.65 installed btw and the graphicscard is an XFX Geforce 6800 GT.

How do you prevent apps from stealing the focus of the forground window on Vista?
I searched for it and all the articles all refer to the same registry key that has to be changed. Which I have, but it doesn't work. Windows still steals focus which is very annoying when I'm typing something.
Anyone managed to get this working?