Some Vista Mysteries Revealed
Figured out two of my Vista problems. Crashing Word 2007: the Dell-published driver for my 5110cn Laser Printer was causing Word 2007 to crash on launch if the 5110cn was the default printer. Outstanding! By replacing the driver with the Vista-included 5100cn driver, everything is cool again. No more crashing Word 2007. You have to love the fact that Vista includes a driver for the 5100cn, a printer no longer available from Dell, but no driver for the 5110cn, the model Dell actually sells.
RocketPost not letting me create new posts or open existing posts: Vista decided to notify me that I needed to download a control so that RocketPost could work - while I was exiting RocketPost. Notifying me when I was launching RocketPost would have helped me know how to make my software work. Bah - why do that, when instead the user can stare helplessly at their application, wondering why it doesn't work. Anyway, the Web Development Tools team decided not to ship the DHTML Editing Control with Vista, even though it had been shipping with IE since early 1999 (almost 8 years). After distilling through a lot of blah-blah-blah, it turns out it was easier to yank it than make the control secure.
Happy, happy, joy joy! On the upside, the RocketPost problem told me about the DHTML Editing Control, which I can use in my Automation project (which is coming along slowly but surely).