Well, I did resolve it- but it stood as a hurdle for over 4 years.
Not strictly a windows problem, but rather a problem getting at a windows feature. I could NOT, for the life of me, figure out how to show the right-click context menu in my program. I did manage to get it "sort of" working, but after the first-click showing the menu, the second one would GPF.
After over ten or twelve re-writes of the code, I managed to actually get some robust code working that can show the right-click menu for any file. It has been successfully integrated into my Object based File handling library, BCFile.
More Aside from Explorer Fiobles previously described, of course-
Probably more annoying to me, is getting older games working. For example- Need for Speed 2 SE, High Stakes, etc. Oh wait- I solved those too. darn it! Let's see- unresolved... unresolved
Darn it! Can't think of anymore right now, but I know I have many...
Oh well. I know! I'll mindlessly ramble at the one poster whose been completely ignored!
I figured out how to make internet explorer safer
ANSWER: download firefox
*clap* congratulations, you successfully made a comment that made no sense. What your saying is analogous to saying,
"I figured out how to make my hand stop hurting!"
"How's that?"
"Oh, it was easy! I just cut my whole arm off!"
Using firefox is on the whole Safer, but firefox never lends it's additional security to Internet Explorer, and so doesn't, in any way, make IE any safer. If somebody were to install Firefox and continue to run IE, would that make IE safer? NO.
I figured out why windows 95 goes to BSOD so much.
Answer: Run over 3 programs at once and find out.
that really did make me mad as a kid.
Again... this is about unsolved issues, second off, we're talking about machines actually capable of having the issue non-existent. Running windows 95 on a 4MB 386 notwithstanding. I've used windows 95, my friend, and it was much more robust then it is made out to be. In fact- more so then windows 98, since they integrated IE into 98, but not necessarily all versions of 95.