Windows Live Writer: The Race for Memory
The other day I posted a screen print of Windows Live Writer (the one and only client app I really like) eating up 85% of CPU and 1.2G memory. That’s pretty bad. Then I did a test: open up WLW fresh, open a draft post, then minimize WLW, and see how fast it would bring [...]
Windows Live Writer Can Bring a Beast of a Computer Down
Time for a confession: for being a SaaS-fan and sticking to using Web applications whenever I can, there is one client app I really like: Windows Live Writer. Simply the Best Blog Editor. Except you can’t work too long in it. It gets this crazy idea that it should own my entire system and it [...]
Dr Watson Keeps Crashing Through My Windoze
Dr Watson, Microsoft’s crash reporting tool has been with us just as long as the Windows operating system – in fact longer, considering the original, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant. But all careers must come to an end. Starting with Vista, poor Dr. Watson was sent to retirement, replaced by Problem Reports and Solutions, says Microsoft. But [...]
