December 6th, 2005 I’ve been looking at the Windows OneCare beta and it looks to be pretty good. Could this be the foray into the anti-virus arena that the Vole has been threatening?
A couple of things though; the beta won’t install if your machine has got less than 256Mb. Oh, and you need to register.
[...] I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005 at home for a while now, and I recently made a posting about trying out the OneCare beta from Microsoft. Unfortunately, there appears to be a “feature” in the interaction between the two. You’ve been developing an application in VS and debug it. Runs fine the first time, but something in OneCare is keeping hold of the .vshost.exe executable and won’t allow it to stop when you stop debugging. The next time you try to debug it it comes up and tells you it can’t create one of the necessary files. Try to debug it again and a dialog comes up telling you it can’t access the aforementioned vshost file. So the only way to be able to debug your application is to go into Task Manager and kill the vshost process. Pain in the arse. Come on MS, get it sorted. [...]