Recent content by jamesL70

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    how to troubleshoot a memory leak in a app

    There are any number of tools that the developers should be using to find these memory leaks. Here are a couple: BoundsChecker www.numega.com Purify www.rational.com JamesL
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    Popups in XP?

    There is a tool called Spy++ that comes with Microsofts Visual Studio that will, among other things, tell you the process ID that owns a window. Then you can go to the task manager, enable the process identifier column, and see we owns it. There may be other similar (and cheaper) programs out...
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    Dual Boot: WinXp Pro and Mandrake 9.1

    The way I've always dual-booted windows and linux is a bit complicated, but I've found to be the most reliable. 1) Install windows 2) Install Linux, but make sure that you tell it *NOT* to install LILO into the master boot record. You want LILO in the boot record of the linux boot partition...
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    Dual Boot: WinXp Pro and Mandrake 9.1

    The way I've always dual-booted windows and linux is a bit complicated, but I've found to be the most reliable. 1) Install windows 2) Install Linux, but make sure that you tell it *NOT* to install LILO into the master boot record. You want LILO in the boot record of the linux boot partition...