Zoinkity

Has anyone tried backporting the taskbar from win7, possibly from the RC/beta preview? That and the calculator are about the only features from win7 I care for. I suppose I could crack the version stamps on a retail win7 version, but no use reinventing the wheel, eh? Wonder if they were recycling the class from the start menu for that...

Thankfully never saw it before. Guess these people don't realize that people on these forums have found ways around the issue. Lament. Crazy that. You could always go out of your way to complain and explain the situation, but chances are that won't work out well. Haters gotta hate.

One problem with the debug builds versus the official one is that folders are not automatically refreshing. This does cause problems if you forget to Ctrl+R after renaming a file or directory, since it uses the old name to do the lookup. This happens both on my old box and under virtual console, and this doesn't happen when reverting to the old 4.5 release. Otherwise, the system thread concept is very good, and I like the increased compatibility.

Wasn't there a simple method to force a rebuild of VMM32.vxd?

The registry has an entry to the folder. Files are searched for in the directory. Some programs load dependancies based on a file name pattern, such as "NPSWF32*.DLL", then load the highest-ordered search result. Chances are rather high that the original NPSWF32.DLL is being overridden by the .dll with the most recent patch date and version. (That said, they could also use it for base shared functions, but it isn't likely.) This is all part of a program distribution model aimed at rapid, common patching. It's certainly wasteful, taking more disk space and bandwidth than simply patching files. That said, replacement is faster and more foolproof; they don't need to concider things like permissions, read-only access, running programs, or unloading resources. It just works the next time the program is loaded. Plus, if they do need a regression you probably already have the file.

On the subject, doesn't Microsoft use a namespace extension to mush together the many actual folders that compose the 'temporary internet files' virtual directory? If that were the case it could probably be hacked to permit any folder to do the same kind of thing in the case it reached filename capacity.

Thanks! Works great, and solves a stack of other annoyances.

I know in Vista you could get away with having multiple shell entries named "runas" so long as they were sequentially-numbered; i.e.: runas(2), runas(3), etc. However, when trying to merge this reg entry from Vista the runas(2) is ignored: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\RunAs] @="&Uninstall" "HasLUAShield"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\RunAs\command] @="regsvr32 /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\RunAs(2)] @="&Install" "HasLUAShield"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\RunAs(2)\command] @="regsvr32 \"%1\"" So, is there some other method to it, or is a workaround required?