Tripp Parks's WebLog
Connected Standby and Network Devices on Windows 8 and Windows RT
To understand how network devices behave on Windows RT a basic understanding of the power states is...
Date: 07/10/2013
Tripp's Tiny Tips #14 - Per application DPI settings
One of the common complaints have seen for High DPI displays is the behavior of the applications...
Date: 07/01/2013
Free Games and applications for Windows 8 - Where's my Water & Where's my Perry
Details located here
Date: 12/23/2012
A sign of of good things to come?
Saw this a few days ago
Date: 12/23/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #13 Control Music Playback
Control Music Playback Use the hardware volume key while the music app is playing in the...
Date: 07/18/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #12 Lock Screen Rotation
Use the settings charm to open the settings panel (six-pack), select Screen and click the rotating...
Date: 07/17/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #11 Change Sync Settings
Don't want to sync certain settings across machines? Bring up the Settings Charm, Change PC Settings...
Date: 07/16/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #10 Show all available apps
When in the store app, search for "*" and order by newest.
Date: 07/15/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #9 Show App's purchased from the Store
Swipe from the top, and select Your Apps, the default sort is by apps that aren't installed
Date: 07/12/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #8 See all installed applications
On the Start screen, swipe up and select "All Apps"
Date: 07/11/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #7 Run a process elevated
Need to start an elevated program? Select the program, swipe up, and select "Run As Administrator"...
Date: 07/10/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #6 - Show estimated data usage
Show estimated data usage for WiFi networks. To enable it: In the network selection dialog, press...
Date: 07/09/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #5 - Mobile Broadband hardware information
Find out your Mobile Broadband Hardware information Settings, Change PC Settings, Wireless, Click on...
Date: 07/08/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #3 - Enable Network Sharing
Can't see your Xbox or Play To device on the network? Sharing may not be enabled on that network. To...
Date: 07/02/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #2 - Standard Layout Touch Keyboard
If you need a more full featured touch keyboard, you can enable this keyboard By selecting this...
Date: 07/01/2012
Tripp's Tiny Tips #1
Using a mobile hotspot and want to save bandwidth? In the network selection dialog, press and hold...
Date: 06/29/2012
I can't wait
[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo] Welcome to Microsoft #Surface. Coming Soon....
Date: 06/28/2012
5 Years Later
I am currently the test lead for Peer to Peer Networking Network Diagnostics Mobile Broadband...
Date: 06/28/2012
Bechtel put Vista’s IPv6 stack on trial - Network World
From the article: Bechtel put Vista’s IPv6 stack on trial - Network World One benefit of Vista’s...
Date: 09/12/2007
Blue screen Tattoo?
From the article: tumbl.us killed the blog star - a tumblelog via modblog.bmezine.com Why would...
Date: 07/29/2007
Avalanche Lives
About 2 years ago, a small story out of the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge caused a bit of a...
Date: 07/28/2007
TWiT- Windows Weekly Live
Pau Thurrott and Leo Laporte are doing another live chat on talkshoe on 7/27 at 4pm Eastern Time...
Date: 07/25/2007
Austin Powers Free on Xbox Live
Interesting ad promotion on Xbox Live this week. From the article: Xbox Live tries ads with...
Date: 06/24/2007
Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles | Seattle Times Newspaper
From the article: Business & Technology | Microsoft parking structure will hold 5,000 vehicles |...
Date: 06/22/2007
Anti-security software
Mark Russinovich writes about a class of security bugs that many applications (including lots of 3rd...
Date: 06/20/2007
Mac or PC, the rap.
Mmm..Geek rap. Originally seen at: GeekLimit
Date: 06/19/2007
Coding Horror: How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation
From the article: Coding Horror: How to Clean Up a Windows Spyware Infestation Let my mistake be a...
Date: 06/18/2007
Vista compatible 3rd party firewall now available
From the article: Firewall fire sale: Free ZoneAlarm makes it to Vista The Vista version of...
Date: 06/16/2007
Would you like some cinderblocks with that?
From the article: BBC NEWS | Americas | US time capsule yields rusty car A car buried in Oklahoma in...
Date: 06/16/2007
Xbox.com | Xbox News - Countdown to Launch with Halo 3 Accessories
New Halo Controlers and Headsets to be released with Halo 3. From the article: Xbox.com | Xbox News...
Date: 06/14/2007
Apple vs Microsoft - sub-pixel differences
When Apple's Safari browser was released several articles on the difference between how pages looked...
Date: 06/14/2007
Raymond Chen to discuss software patents
In the article: The Old New Thing : What determines which programs show up on the front page of the...
Date: 06/12/2007
Listen/Participate in Paul Thurrott's Windows Weekly Podcast
Listen in at https://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?...
Date: 05/10/2007
Charles Simonyi to go to space!
Charles Simonyi, the inventor of hungarian notation, which is the primary variable naming convention...
Date: 10/28/2006
PNRP v2 released for Microsoft Windows XP
Get your bits here. You will need to get this if you want PNRP to interoperate with Vista.
Date: 10/28/2006
This Week in Tech: Windows Weekly
Paul Thurrott has begun po^H^H Blogcasting on the TwiT network at https://www.twit.tv/ww
Date: 09/30/2006
Your feedback matters
Originally meant to be analogous to the non-mutable Mac bios chime. The startup sound is now...
Date: 09/24/2006
Is Bill Clinton commenting on how some AntiVirus companies are treating Vista?
Food for thought: "If you had a business strategy that worked all the time that was premised on...
Date: 09/23/2006
This one goes out to all the Exchange Admins out there
If you want your users running Microsoft Windows Vista to be happy when they use Outlook Web Access...
Date: 09/23/2006
.NET+WPF(Windows Presentation Foundation) Based New York Times Reader Virtual Newspaper
This is a pretty cool application that shows some of the power of .NET and the Windows Presentation...
Date: 09/23/2006
Latest EDW build of Microsoft Windows Vista posted for public download
This is one of the last EDW (External Developer Workstation) builds that will be posted before RTM....
Date: 09/23/2006
Another Handy Microsoft Windows Vista shortcut!
Enjoy the XP Powertoy "Open Command Prompt Here"? Now its part of the OS: Shift+ right click on a...
Date: 09/20/2006
MSN Soapbox goes live
MSN has released their community video site to beta testing! Now you can watch my kid be tormented...
Date: 09/20/2006
External developer comments on PatchGuard
AV Companies: Learn to CODE! Technorati Profile
Date: 09/20/2006
"Sticky" Alt-tab and Win-Tab (Flip-3d)
Just a quick tidbit. The keyboard shortcut to make flip3d (win-tab) behave like clicking the icon is...
Date: 09/20/2006
Interesting article on the Xbox Live Arcade profit model
Note, I don't work on Xbox so I have no clue if these numbers are real ( but they make sense) How...
Date: 09/19/2006
Windows Vista Internet Computer Name Service
Noah blogs about Internet Computer Names. Think Dynamic DNS, but Peer to Peer.
Date: 09/19/2006
Windows Meeting Space returning Access denied on 5472 release
A regression slipped into the last CTP, that causes Windows Meeting Space to return Access Denied,...
Date: 07/19/2006
Symantec says BOO!
Symantec would like to scare you and make you buy their product. By testing on an interim (ie. not a...
Date: 07/18/2006