Wednesday 26 June 2013

Windows context menu fragments left on desktop

Selected Item in Context Menu stays visible forever. I right click, up pops the context menu, I select a menu item, the context menu disappears, but leaves the selected menu item permanently visible on top of all other desktop windows. Annoying!! I've had this occur a lot in XP and now Win7 too. Finally I find a solution.. Kill the Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) in the task manager. It will restart itself and the zombified menu item will disappear.

UPDATE: 

    Alternatively, and much safer.. Set the desktop bit depth to a different bit depth (16bit), then select NO when asked to keep the setting. The screen gets refreshed, orphan elements disappear. Simple and effective.

UPDATE:

..but not permanent.

Maybe more luck with this..


Nope, fragments just reappear soon enough. Grr..


Friday 14 June 2013

Symlinks in perforce in windows

Basically, if you are getting small files where symlinks should be, run perforce as administrator. Fuller description here : http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB_Article/Enabling-Symlinks-on-Windows