mike hates software: Windows, .NET, and god knows what else

• From: Mike Beattie
  Date: 20:14 on 05 Dec 2007
  Subject: Windows, .NET, and god knows what else
  
  So, I have to do some coding in VB.NET at work, updating an in-house  
  management tool for Exchange accounts - we're upgrading to 2007 over  
  the next 4-6 months, and it uses PowerShell (POWER! SHELL!), not CDO.
  
  So, anyway, I have a nice little VM environment set up under Parallels  
  on my MacBook. Three Server 2003 systems, AD, Ex2k3, Ex2k7, and an XP  
  client with Visual Studio and all the trimmings.
  
  Things were going swimmingly, until yesterday when I installed the  
  latest .NET 2.0 service pack. OH GOD THE PAIN. Now each bloody system  
  that has anything even vaguely related to .NET installed has slowed to  
  a crawl. That's the AD server (cos it has SQL server 2005 (don't ask),  
  with it's VS-like management interface), and the XP client.
  
  Finally worked out that it's bloody .NET with it's optimisation  
  service (what?!?), so stopped that, and eventually the AD server  
  calmed down, but for the effing life of me I can't get the XP client  
  to chill the fsck out and actually run with any degree of stability.  
  Simply running tasklist in a cmd.exe window will slow to a crawl.
  
  HATE.
  
  Did I mention that I need to have 99% of this work completed by CoB  
  tomorrow? and that I'm only about 50% done?
  
  HATE HATE HATE
  
  
  

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