Tony Schreiner's WebLogDeveloper - IE | Vista. Fighting complexity for 9 years and counting.Don't Change System Settings to Perform a Computation- October 18, 2007 A post from Raymond Chen today reminds me of the first application compatibility issue I debugged (and fixed). At the time I was working on the MSN client and our team was on loan to load balance compatibility bugs for the release of Windows XP. This application (which will remain nameless) had an alarm clock feature and the problem was that when you set the alarm on XP it would hang. After of slogging through retail assembly code for a while I finally found that whenever you set an alarm they..http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/10/17/don-t-change-system-settings-to-perform-... |