{"id":12673,"date":"2010-09-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/09\/30\/2010-q3-link-clearance-microsoft-blogger-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-09-30T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:00:01","slug":"2010-q3-link-clearance-microsoft-blogger-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100930-01\/?p=12673","title":{"rendered":"2010 Q3 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s that time again: Sending some link love to my colleagues. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/keithcombs\/\">     Keith Combs<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/keithcombs\/archive\/2009\/02\/24\/updated-tcp-ip-registry-values-whitepaper-now-available.aspx\">     points us to<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=12ac9780-17b5-480c-aef7-5c0bde9060b0\">     TCP\/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008<\/a>.     Now you too can tweak values you don&#8217;t understand. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jimoneil\/\">     Jim O&#8217;Neil<\/a>     shows     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jimoneil\/archive\/2009\/10\/25\/7-on-7-federated-search.aspx\">     how to plug OpenSearch search into Explorer and customize it a bit<\/a>.     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/\">     Scott Hanselman<\/a> provides     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/AddingCustomSearchProvidersToWindows7PlusAdvancedSearchTricks.aspx\">     a few to get you started<\/a>.     Other resourceful folks have cooked up     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsdna.com\/2307\/windows-7-search-connectors-for-google-youtube-yahoo-wikipedia-twitter.htm\">     still<\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsdna.com\/2257\/download-windows-7-search-connectors-for-twitter-ebay-amazon-youtube-more.htm\">     more<\/a>.     (Oh, and     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellsbrothers.com\/news\/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=2270\">     if you want &#8220;Search the Internet&#8221; to be available from your     Start menu<\/a>,     you can turn on <i>Add Search Internet link to Start Menu<\/i>     in the Group Policy Editor under     User Configuration, Administrative Templates,     Start Menu and Taskbar.) <\/li>\n<li>     Eric Lawrence takes time out from his     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ieinternals\/\">     day blog<\/a>     to post on the     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/fiddler\/\">     Fiddler blog<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/andypennell\/\">     Andy Pennell<\/a>     gives some backstory on     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/andypennell\/archive\/2010\/04\/13\/my-secret-project-is-no-longer-secret-the-kin-phone.aspx\">     the secrecy behind the KIN phone announcement<\/a>.     (I have a few KIN promotional items which I plan to use as a     contest giveaway. First I need a contest idea&#8230;) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/murrays\/\">     Murray Sargent<\/a>     digs into the Unicode Bidi Algorithm,     specifically     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/murrays\/archive\/2010\/04\/07\/tailoring-the-unicode-bidi-algorithm.aspx\">     where it tends to fall down<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/seealso\/\">     Gus Class<\/a>     explains     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/seealso\/archive\/2010\/07\/09\/so-you-found-an-sdk-documentation-bug.aspx\">     how to report bugs in SDK documentation<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paulbetts.org\/\">     Paul Betts<\/a>     investigates     <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paulbetts.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/20\/the-case-of-the-disappearing-onload-exception-user-mode-callback-exceptions-in-x64\/\">     the case of the disappearing OnLoad exception<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/gps.cloudapp.net\/\">     Group Policy Search<\/a> tool on MSDN     lets you browse or search a database of group policies.     You can even install an Internet Explorer search provider     or a Windows 7 Search Connector     so you can search for group policies directly from Internet Explorer     or Explorer. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/cjacks\/\">     Chris Jackson<\/a>     answers the question     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/cjacks\/archive\/2008\/12\/01\/shimming-applications-on-windows-vista-64-bit.aspx\">     <i>What is the deal with shimming on Windows Vista 64-bit<\/i><\/a>?     He also explains that     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/cjacks\/archive\/2008\/12\/11\/you-can-t-fix-application-compatibility-problems-with-dialog-boxes.aspx\">     you can&#8217;t fix application compatibility problems with dialog boxes<\/a>.     (Chris also     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/cjacks\/archive\/2010\/04\/18\/app-compat-bug-explained-the-mysterious-black-background-in-visual-basic-6-vb6-forms-and-controls.aspx\">     covers an application compatibility bug     that technically isn&#8217;t a compatibility bug at all<\/a>     because the problem occurred even on Windows&nbsp;XP.     The application was     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/12\/12\/6648399.aspx\">     mixing colors that weren&#8217;t meant to be mixed<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/volkerw\/\">     Volker Will<\/a>     points out that     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/volkerw\/archive\/2009\/02\/09\/32-bit-optional-in-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx\">     support for 32-bit applications is an optional component     in Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core<\/a>.     (Man, what a long product name.) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mssmallbiz\/\">     Eric Ligman<\/a>     discovers that     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mssmallbiz\/archive\/2009\/01\/14\/9318814.aspx\">     the use of acronyms is way out of control<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     The     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/wer\/\">     WER Services blog<\/a>     explains     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/wer\/archive\/2009\/03\/11\/an-overview-of-wer-consent-settings-and-corresponding-ui-behavior.aspx\">     what the three answers to &#8220;Help protect your computer and improve     Windows automatically&#8221; actually mean<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtualearth\/\">     Chris Pendleton<\/a>     noted some     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtualearth\/archive\/2009\/03\/26\/the-city-of-seattle-traveler-s-information-map.aspx\">     special map mash-ups from the City of Seattle<\/a>:     <a href=\"http:\/\/web5.seattle.gov\/travelers\/\">     The Travelers Information Map<\/a>     and     <a href=\"http:\/\/web5.seattle.gov\/mnm\/\">     My Neighborhood Map<\/a>.     (In the time since that entry was written,     Chris has     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/community\/members\/Chris-Pendleton\/default.aspx\">     taken up posting to the Bing Maps blog<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/\">     Larry Osterman<\/a>     tells another story of     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/archive\/2009\/06\/30\/thinking-about-last-checkin-chicken.aspx\">     Last Checkin Chicken<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again: Sending some link love to my colleagues. Keith Combs points us to TCP\/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Now you too can tweak values you don&#8217;t understand. Jim O&#8217;Neil shows how to plug OpenSearch search into Explorer and customize it a bit. 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