Windows Esstiential April 26, 2014 is messed up?

26. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: ,

I've been fighting a very slow Visual Studio problem for the past 4 hours and finally I figured out the problem.  I've been using VS 2013 express everyday for the past year. NOTHING changed on my machine from last night to this morning except I downloaded the latest essentials viral patch.

Visual studios is running way to slow, taking up to 20 seconds to start a program in the debugger, and another 10-15 seconds after stopping the program before the mouse will start working again.

I turned off the real-time protection and bam!  Everything is back to normal.  I turned real-time back on and Bam!  Problems again.  I rinsed and repeated this again with the same results.  Something is REALLY wrong with today's patch!

So if your machine is acting very sluggish you now know why.  DOes anyone know about this or if MS knows about another bad Esstiantials update?  After last weeks (or the week before) screw up XP's essential's patch this getting to be a bad routine to follow.

Dont' aske me what I selected the product that I did but as I had NO REAL choice that matches the problem of Windows Essentials. :(

And no, it is not my machine. I have 8GB of memory and plenty of disk space, I defragged trying to fix this, and this is definitely a problem with Essentials.  Also, I am running a complete scan hoping that perhaps something will help but at 80% complete so far it has not helped.

Skydrive in Windows 8.1 Preview causing annoyances with projects in VS 2013

28. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,

Hello. I am using the latest updates on Windows 8.1 Preview, and I have my SkyDrive set up so all my Visual Studio projects are in a folder in my SkyDrive. All of the following are true:

-The VS Projects folder where my visual studio projects are located is marked for offline use, including all subdirectories where my project is located.

-The initial download step is complete.

-I am using the preview version of VS 2013.


I am working my projects as I usually do; however, when I am editing a file, a box pops up randomly and says that the project has been modified outside the editor, and asks me if I want to reload it.

-I am not in fact editing the file outside the editor.

-This didn't happen with the old desktop sync client for SkyDrive for Windows 8.0 to Vista.


Therefore, this is a problem with SkyDrive, since for some reason, it is appearing to outside applications to be modifying the files when in fact the contents of the file doesn't change. This is a problem, because if I click "yes," I lose all work I have done since I last saved. I also don't know if it was legitimately modified by an outside program, or if it is just Skydrive messing with it. This is a bug and hinders the usability of not only Visual Studio, but other programs that detect when a file is modified, when used in conjunction with SkyDrive.


Is there any workarounds? Skydrive cannot be uninstalled in Windows 8.1, and the old Skydrive client doesn't install on Windows 8.1. Thank you!