Useful Freeware » Tips & Tricks http://www.usefulfreeware.net A blog about freeware, open source software, programming and more Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:47:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to make applications look better on high DPI setting http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2008/02/03/how-to-make-vs2008-look-better-on-high-dpi-setting/ http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2008/02/03/how-to-make-vs2008-look-better-on-high-dpi-setting/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:45:26 +0000 bbetov http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2008/02/03/how-to-make-vs2008-look-better-on-high-dpi-setting/ A problem I just struggled with on Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008 on a 120 dpi setting. The problem is that Visual Studio looked really bad by default on a high DPI setting. The solution to the problem is to go to the Visual Studio shortcut and go to Properties > Compatibility and check “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” (see screenshot below). Other non-high DPI aware programs like Total Commander also suffer from the same problem.

Setting Visual Studio Compatibility

]]> http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2008/02/03/how-to-make-vs2008-look-better-on-high-dpi-setting/feed/ 2 How to make Active Virus Shield dowload updates again http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2007/09/05/how-to-make-active-virus-shield-dowload-updates-again/ http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2007/09/05/how-to-make-active-virus-shield-dowload-updates-again/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:51:23 +0000 bbetov http://www.usefulfreeware.net/2007/09/05/how-to-make-active-virus-shield-dowload-updates-again/ Some time ago AOL was offering Active Virus Shield – a free antivirus software based on Kaspersky antivirus engine and many people (including myself) enjoyed the nice free virus protection. Last month (August 2007) AOL started offering a free antivirus protection based on McAfee engine, which IMHO is slower and less accurate. Since then the automatic updates stopped and the files downloaded from AOL were with “Incorrect Signature” as reported by the updates. Here is how to solve the update problem even though I don’t know how long it will last:

All you need to do is to edit your c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add the following line anywhere in the file on a separate line:

127.0.0.1 download.newaol.com

Why would that work?

There is a file aol-updcfg.xml, residing in c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\AVP6\Data\, which contains theupdate download locations. The locations have certain priority and the top two are ftp: and http: based updates from obviously buggy download.newaol.com. Adding the hosts entry forces windows to connect to your local machine instead of download.newaol.com, and not finding an update service. The program falls back to the secondary location(s) in kaspersky labs and viola…

Enjoy while it lasts…

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