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Introduction to Windows Media Foundation
07 March 11 11:26 PM | pavely | 52 comment(s)

I’ve been writing a new course on this technology, so I thought I’d share some of my experiences with the Windows Media Foundation. What is Windows Media Foundation? The Windows Media Foundation is technically the successor of DirectShow (which is still around and very much supported), introduced in Windows Vista and enhanced in Windows 7. It’s a multimedia platform, capable of playing, analyzing, writing and otherwise transforming media (mostly video & audio, but can technically be anything...

תגים:COM, C++, COM Apartments, Vista, DEV, Win32, Windows7, Media Foundation

Cleaning Vista SP1 Unneeded Files
24 March 08 11:01 AM | pavely | 2 comment(s)

If you've installed Vista SP1 and are satisfied, you can get rid of the old Vista files and free valuable disk space. The only catch is, you won't be able to uninstall SP1. The process takes less than a minute. On my Vista x64 machine I gained almost 2GB! not bad for less than a minute's work... Here's how to do it: Open the system32 folder and run vsp1cln.exe . Just answer Y and you're on your way to some free space and permanent SP1!

תגים:Vista