Marcus Groeber ⁽¹⁶⁾

Over the years, running PC/Geos has become more and more tricky, especially since running 16-bit DOS applications on Windows has first experienced increasing compatibility problems and then disappeared completely. Emulators such as dosbox have come to the rescue to some extent, but also required extra…

I was experiencing persistent failures to install the monthly Cumulative Update to Windows 10 with error code 0x80070003 (ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND). In my case, this was caused by broken driver install for a Qualcomm Atheros WiFi card, which meant a directory required for restoring system files using…

[15-Aug-2012] Oracle still continues the questionable practice of bundling the ask.com toolbar with each security update of the JRE, even going so far as requiring the user to opt-out of the installation of the potentially unwanted additional piece of software. To avoid this, do not…

After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 a few weeks ago, I found that my PC would power up from Hibernation at 12:53pm (precisely) every day. Eventually it turned out that a Scheduled Task called mcupdate_scheduled ("Check for Media Center updates") had the flag…

This article attempts to summarize some findings about heap management under 32-bit versions of Windows that I had to learn about the hard way while trying to optimize memory usage of a fairly complex algorithm. While the algorithm was implemented as a portable Python/C hybrid…