Windows Vista - Build 5456 & Quake 3

I’ve been running the Vista beta’s for a while now, Got my hands on build 5456 the other day, I’ve found this build to be the closest i’ve got to running Vista beta as my primary os. The only thing holding me back was my gamming at home. all my work apps run, and as we use citrix anything that doesn’t i run as published applications.

 So to the gaming testing i went.

Quake 4 worked but i hardly play it.
Quake 3 worked but i found i couldn’t adjust the gamma in game and due to the darkness of the game it was unplayable. Due to Nvidia’s drivers at this point not allowing me to adjust the gamma, i thought i was doomed.

 Anyway, i remembered a program i used to use years ago. Powerstrip, so i went hunting, found that the program still exists, downloaded and installed it hoping my vista install wouldn’t bluescreen on reboot. on reboot, the pc was working and indeed i was able to adjust the gamma using powerstrip. So now my Quake 3 is functional.

So here’s to Vista as my primary OS for the timebeing.

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Citrix - Cannot connect to web interface with .net 2 installed.

Symptoms

The Access Suite Console is no longer able to properly communicate with Web Interface. The option to Create Sites is no longer available in the Common Tasks Pane of the Access Suite Console, and running discovery reports a warning which states “Could not contact any Web Interface configuration servers.”

Causes

This is caused by installing Microsoft .NET 2.0 on a Web Interface 4.0 server.

WorkAround

Remove .NET version 2.0.

-OR-

Create a file call “mmc.exe.config” in \Windows\system32 directory and add the following lines to the file. You should be able to open the Access Suite Console without any further problems.

sample mmc.exe.config