Andrey Mikhalchuk’s Blog

So imagine you have this super-duper cool quad-core 4Gb RAM dual nvidia raid 5 computer running Vista. You’re browsing the internet enjoying/hating the ultra-sweety-psycho-aero interface and when you go to flickr/twitter/some_other_your_favorite website the entire system freezes instantly. You can’t move mouse cursor or type on keyboard and your computer gets completely stunned. That happened to me once. Actually, not once … every time I go to flickr vista dies. If you are in the same trouble and no common sense solutions (update drivers, install fixes, remove new hardware, test RAM and other stuff) are working try this:
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I actually think this method will work for Visual Basic and other similar languages too. Here is the code for a sample frame called TfrKnob:

“Setup cannot continue because some system files are out of date on your system. Click OK if you would like setup to update these files for you now. You will need to restart Windows before you can run setup again. Click cancel to exit setup without updating system files.”

First time I was struggling with the problem when I tried to install Dino-MITE - an excellent program for monitoring ancd controlling home dinosaurs manufactured by Ugobe. Later it appeared that the problem is more common and frequently occures with during the installation of various products written in Visual Basic.

I don’t know exactly what causes the problem, but I’m unable to download anything from HP (Hewlett-Packard) website. I tried downloading using multiple FTP clients from different platforms and it appeared that Safari under MacOS can download the files, while Firefox under both Windows and MacOS can’t. Right now I tried to get the same file from two XP computers using FireFox and one was able to download the file, while the other one wasn’t. It’s not about firewall settings and not about passive/active mode. If someone knows the reason and how to fix the problem I’d appreciate a comment on this post.

If anyone else is experiencing the same problems use the following solution: copy the URL of the link you’re trying to download the file from (in FireFox right-click on the link and choose “Copy Link location”), paste the link into the browser’s address line, replace “ftp://” with “http://” and hit enter. This will download the file using HTTP protocol.

So you did something and your windows explorer is now displaying thumbnails without labels?

Here is how to cure it: switch to any other view mode and then switch back to thumbnail view while holding shift key. Nice! How many tiny features like this one windows hides inside?