Windows Vista

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:01 pm

[quote="Deacon";p="671704"]Does the taskkill command not work for you in that situation?[/quote]
No, in my experience taskkill is nothing more than a kill command from task manager w/permissions to do things task manager won't initally let you do. It'll still attempt to terminate running user code, but kernel code is a different story.

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:01 am

Any rumours about MS changing this for Vista? This crap has gone on far too long.
/me continues to furiously presses "End Process" in an attempt to kill a non responding program

Post by **Martin Blank** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:17 am

[quote="FireAza";p="671676"]Got any links to said program types that you recommend Martin?[/quote]
http://www.sysinternals.com

Lots of good stuff there, but in particular, look at the Processes area. You'll find PSKill there.

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:20 pm

SysInternals is good stuff, however being recently acquired by Microsoft, I wonder how it'll change their products. Think Windows Task Manager is gonna get a facelift?

Teranfirbt · Post by **Teranfirbt** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:16 pm

Well, RC1 is definately a bit snappier than Beta 2... It doesn't seem that much better on memory usage though.

Post by **Martin Blank** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:10 am

[quote="Infin8Cyn";p="672127"]SysInternals is good stuff, however being recently acquired by Microsoft, I wonder how it'll change their products. Think Windows Task Manager is gonna get a facelift?[/quote]
According to the Winternals/Sysinternals guys, it will be a while, if ever, before the tools are integrated even partially. Sysinternals tools will remain freely available.

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:05 pm

There's one downside to the Sysinternals Process Explorer. Because I like having it at easy keypress, I selected the option to replace taskman with it. Well, if you've got the system locked to unholy hell, calling up S.P.E. is next to impossible, whereas the outta the box taskman isn't usually too bad.

Post by **Martin Blank** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:16 am

SPE is a resource pig of its own. But the information it provides! Magical!

Teranfirbt · Post by **Teranfirbt** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:23 am

Has anyone had an issue with wedpages bouncing in Fire Fox in RC 1?

Post by **Martin Blank** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:50 am

Not at all. Firefox 1.5 works fine for me in Vista.

dmpotter · Post by **dmpotter** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:00 am

Bouncing webpages in Firefox usually turns out to be some weird profile-related bug. (Specifically, corrupted chrome, although FireAza once managed it with a corrupted bookmarks file.) Try creating another profile and see if it continues.

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:17 am

[quote="dmpotter";p="672878"](Specifically, corrupted chrome, although FireAza once managed it with a corrupted bookmarks file.)[/quote]
Yep, I'm that talented

Personally, I don't bother with manually backing up my Firefox profile, I use a program called Mozbackup, does it automatically and does it well.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:34 am

It's a folder. You copy a folder. You need a whole program for that?

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:01 am

Yep. Because I've had bad experiences in the past with just copying a folder (see dmpotter's post). Plus, Mozbackup lets you choose what parts to backup/restore which is handy if you've got say an extension causing problems.

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:23 pm

[quote="Martin Blank";p="672844"]SPE is a resource pig of its own. But the information it provides! Magical![/quote]

PFft, it's only consuming 5.24% of my CPU and 18MB of Ram.

:shakes fist at his lovable app:

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